The for-profit charity founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan do a rough face in their commitment to the diversity of the company.

According to internal emails and other communications from The Guardian, executives of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) informed employees Tuesday night that they would actually eliminate internal and external diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). In late January, Czi's leaders assured employees that their long-term support for Dei had not changed. Zuckerberg's company Meta announced that it will terminate its DEI program days before Donald Trump's second inauguration.

CZI Chief Operating Officer Marc Malandro wrote to all employees in an email: “In view of the shift in regulatory and legal landscape, we will no longer have the diversity, equity, inclusiveness and accessibility of CZI Sex team.”

The organization also backed down on its diverse slate practices, which require interviews for candidates from different backgrounds for all public roles of charity. Meta denied similar rules last month. The purpose of these changes is to “keep us consistently as a priority for scientific philanthropy,” Marandro wrote.

The billions of dollars Czi earned from the huge personal wealth of Zuckerberg and Chan for investments and grants, created by Meta, the social media company behind Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp over 20 years ago, Instagram and Whatsapp was founded behind it. The couple operates CZI as co-founder and co-chairman. When Meta decided to end its DEI efforts early this year, CZI employees began to worry that their organizations would follow, as companies and foundations often set similar corporate policies. As CEO of Meta, Zuckerberg has made it clear in recent months that he hopes to be a good grace for Trump’s new administration, which ends the diversity initiative for federal recruitment, And forcing businesses to do the same.

Although Czi's HR executive told employees last month: "Meta's changes in DEI efforts have not impacted our work," employees remained vigilant and the organization will stick to its commitments. From layoffs to the recent return authorization, several instances of Czi have occurred after Meta's leadership changed operations. A CZI spokesman declined to comment.

Additionally, Malandro wrote that CZI ended all “social advocacy funding”, including work and grants, focusing on immigration reform and racial equality. "The few years of grant commitments we have made before, we will still respect, but none of these support political activism," Marandro wrote. His email added that the organization will focus more strictly on grants, And work around “biology and AI.”

To this end, CZI also made layoffs within its community team, part of which is part of the organization, focusing on affordable housing and "economic inclusion" and moving other members of other teams in the organization to the organization. elsewhere in. According to another email viewed by The Guardian, the head of the community team will leave CZI next month. The landing page for CZI Community Work has been scrubbed with any work that mentions inclusive or economically equitable work.

Czi's website has changed even more in recent days, removing many references to its public support for company diversity in the past years and promoting underrepresented groups in scientific research.

In Change: A page that previously worked on Czi's DEI, which highlights the different backgrounds of its employees no longer exist. Another page that previously said the foundation deleted another page of the term through a “diversity, equity and inclusion lens.” A famous quote from Czi homepage Chan that reads "Luck is not a national strategy. We need to develop strategies to get everyone's equations out of the equation." Over the years, the organization has provided thousands of grants, including Many programs and organizations, which focus on diversity efforts, and the Trump administration’s approvals imposed by institutions such as the National Institutes of Health.

Czi also notified those on Tuesday that they had applied for their Science Diversity Leadership Award, a grant program that awarded $1.15 million to selected researchers, which it "decided not to continue". The organization did not give an explanation in the email about the end of the program, although the process of selecting new researchers was in progress based on another page that the CZI website has deleted.

A person who applies for the award and hopes to hear this month will receive a short email informing them that they will be suspended. The person told The Guardian that it was "very frustrating" and that it pointed out "the bigger problem with Czi".