Call for Proposals: Llama Impact Grants

Deadline: 15-Nov-23

Meta is offering Impact Grants to identify and support the most compelling applications of Llama 2 for societal benefit.

They hope to

• Shape compelling use cases that bridge technical and non-technical communities.
• Build community that encourages adoption of open-source large language models across the globe, at local and at national levels.

Tracks

• They recognize that global challenges are complex and nuanced. That is why they are structuring this program around three different tracks:
  • Education
    • Communities around the world face barriers that prevent all their members from receiving equitable access to a quality education. From supporting teachers and students with creative tooling or translation needs to personalizing and improving educational outcomes across the globe, large language models can promote opportunities that open up new troves of educational resources for those who could most benefit from them.
    • Applicants submitting proposals under the Education track are encouraged to consider how Llama 2 could promote the discovery of new opportunities to deliver more equitable education outcomes in their own communities. The might include (but are not limited to) the following:
      • Support for Students: Deliver personalized content for individual students in order to convey key points in a way that they best understand. This could include personalized curriculum materials, course programs, and assessment questions that focus on areas where an individual child most needs support.
      • Support for Teachers: Assist in grading, lesson planning, and other administrative tasks in order to allow teachers to spend more of their time teaching and supporting their students, creating a more productive teaching workforce.
  • Environment
    • Operating sustainably and addressing environmental challenges through bold, meaningful action are paramount to the mission and essential to help the world avoid the worst effects of a dynamic environment.
    • Applicants submitting proposals under the Environment track are encouraged to consider how Llama 2 may be incorporated as a component of a solution to build a healthier and more sustainable world, including (but not limited to) the following:
      • Mitigation Focus: Help them to speed the discovery, testing, and scaling of new methods for reducing the levels of green house gases in the atmosphere. Applications include accelerating material science, carbon removal, NDC strategies, and just transitions.
      • Adaptation Focus: Help them to adapt a changing environment, saving lives and protecting livelihoods. Applications include agricultural planning and management; urban resilience; and green economic development.
  • Open Innovation
    • Environment and education are only two domains where Llama 2 could be used to positively impact society. They believe there are multiple other domains, as well as intersectional ones, where the model can have an even greater positive impact on society.
    • They welcome all proposals that take an innovative approach to using Llama 2 for social good, including (but not limited to) the following:
      • Faster synthesis and answers from large corpuses of research, policy papers, or data sets, including deriving novel insights from unstructured text.
      • Improving the speed of coding new software applications that help them to understand and act quickly in a changing world.
      • Summarizing known side effects and anecdotal outcomes of medications to mitigate negative interactions and propose solutions to increase medication compliance.
      • Analysis of court records and documents to identify biases and evidentiary challenges that could reopen cases and bring about more fair judicial outcomes.

Funding Information

• This grant program has three (3) grants available and they will only be awarded to a valid Organization (no participant or individual person will receive the grant).
• Each grant consists of a cash amount up to $500,000 USD (“Grant Funds”). I

Eligibility Criteria

• This grant program is open to organizations located in countries where local law does not prohibit their participation or the receipt of an award.
• Individuals and/or Organizations that are
  • the target of any trade sanctions or export control restrictions administered or enforced by the U.S., EU, United Nations, or UK;
  • acting on behalf of anyone else who is the target of such trade sanctions or export control restrictions; or
  • organized or located in Belarus, China, Russia, Ukraine, or any country or region that is the target of comprehensive economic or financial sanctions (e.g., Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk regions of Ukraine, Cuba, North Korea, Iran, and Syria, as such list may be amended) are not eligible to participate.
• Eligible Organizations must be one of the following:
  • A non-profit organization: The non-profit organization must operate solely for a “charitable purpose” as defined under U.S. law and be organized as either a 501(c)3 entity (in the U.S.) or the local equivalent indicating governmental designation that the organization is a not-for-profit entity.
  • An academic institution: An academic institution is defined as an accredited institution (colleges, universities or other educational institutions) of higher learning that grants degrees which can be public, private, or non-profit.
  • A research institution: A research institution is defined as an establishment outside of higher education founded for doing research which can be public, private, or non-profit.
• Each Organization must adhere to the following requirements:
  • must not be an individual, a sole proprietor, or sole-owner entity in the jurisdiction where it is formed,
  • be an entity that is duly formed prior to October 1, 2022, and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction in which the Organization was formed, and
  • have the legal right to participate in this Grant Program and its participation will not violate any agreement or obligation between the Organization and any third-party. Organizations that are not a non-profit organization, an academic institution, or a research institution may advise/consult eligible Organizations and offer expertise, however only eligible Organizations are permitted to apply and eligible to receive Grant Funds.

For more information, visit Meta.