In June 2021, the Silver School of Social Work received a visionary $16 million gift from Constance Silver and Martin Silver to harness the emerging power of big data to identify the root causes of society’s most pressing challenges and achieve broad and transformational social impact. The gift secures a place for the Silver School of Social Work and the McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research at the forefront of leveraging data science and artificial intelligence in social work research, education, and impact.

One of the largest cash gifts ever given to a school of social work, this multidimensional gift provides $5 million to the McSilver Institute to establish an artificial intelligence hub. This groundbreaking hub will be used to address poverty and challenges related to race and public health equity. Of equal importance, the gift will help NYU Silver and the social work profession at large develop evidence-informed “smart” interventions to equitably tackle urgent problems, among them family violence, impediments to health and mental health care, and mass incarceration. The gift funds the creation of a Center on Data Science and Social Equity as well as an endowed professorship in data science and prevention.

Constance McCatherin Silver is a psychoanalyst, social worker, educator, philanthropist, artist, and a member of NYU’s Board of Trustees. Throughout her life, Silver has shown fierce dedication and courage as a champion in the fight against inequality.

Her husband, Martin Silver, is a business leader and founder of Life Resources/DCI Biologicals, an innovative plasma collection company. Together they have transformed the field of social work, setting the highest bar as philanthropists committed to social change and bettering lives through investment in innovation and advancements that address society’s most pressing issues.

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