Baszucki Group directs resources toward the greater good through mission-driven investments that improve human health, governance and the health of our planet.

 

 

Toward the greater good

Launched in 2021 by Roblox founder and CEO David Baszucki and best-selling author Jan Ellison Baszucki, Baszucki Group leverages private giving, impact investing, advocacy, storytelling and community building to drive foundational change.
A primary objective of Baszucki Group is to transform mental health outcomes, beginning with bipolar disorder, by supporting initiatives at the intersection of metabolism, psychiatry and neuroscience. Our investments in democracy, conservation and our communities are synergistic with our life sciences initiatives.

Our work emphasizes innovative platforms and programs in five primary areas:

Introducing Metabolic Mind™

Jan, Dave and Matt Baszucki share their family’s story of recovery from mental illness aided by a ketogenic metabolic therapy with 100 years of evidence in epilepsy. Experts in the emerging fields of metabolic psychiatry and metabolic neuroscience discuss new approaches to understanding and treating mental disorders.

Metabolic Mind is a nonprofit initiative incubated by Baszucki Group. Its mission over time will be to provide resources and build community in metabolic psychiatry. 

Visit us at MetabolicMind.org

News & Views

Doctors said my son’s bipolar disorder couldn’t be healed by diet. They were wrong.

May 23, 2023 — Jan Ellison Baszucki penned an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle to share her family's journey of using a ketogenic diet to treat her son's bipolar disorder.

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With Peltola’s Defeat of Palin, Alaska’s Ranked-Choice Voting Has a Moment

September 1, 2023 — Alaska's ranked choice voting system played a role in electing the first Alaska Native to serve in Congress and the first woman to hold the House seat. Ranked choice voting makes our democracy stronger, more equitable, and gives voters more choices.

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Common Ground documentary (2023) – Official Trailer

September 22, 2023 — Our founder, Jan Ellison Baszucki, is an Executive Producer on the new film, Common Ground, which debuted for the very first time at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival. The film takes a deep dive into America’s corrupt food system and how farmers and families have had to live through tragedy and illness at the hands of government policies that favor big agriculture and big profits.

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