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• Rady School and Scripps Institution of Oceanography to investigate new dual degree program

  funds outcome-based grants and initiatives to achieve significant and measurable results. Grantmaking

• Sustaining gains in the Andes-Amazon region

  in 2006 and 2010. These previous evaluations concluded that their grants contributed to a major

• Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation awards $24 million to Caltech for three projects

  The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded three grants totaling $24 million to the California Institute of Technology for projects in cosmology, experimental economics, and neurobiology. The largest of the three awards, for approximately $12 million, goes to a program titled "Peering into the Heart of Darkness: Revolutionizing Detectors for Cosmology." The aim of the program is to create a new class of detectors to study the universe for new insights into its beginning, composition

• ASPB convenes leaders to chart future of plant science research

  . Additional support for the summit is provided by ASPB and by grants from the National Science Foundation

• Sequencing the genome of a powerful green alga

  Foundation's plant collaboration grants

• Chabot Space & Science Center receives grant to encourage girls in science, technology and engineering

  to create positive outcomes for future generations. The Foundation funds outcome-based grants

• Chabot receives grant to support fabrication and installation of Bill Nye's Climate Laboratory

  museum grants within the San Francisco Bay Area Program seek to promote science literacy among Bay

• New awardees in experimental physics to stimulate discoveries in quantum materials

  The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has selected 19 new Moore Experimental Investigators in Quantum Materials to help accelerate scientific breakthroughs in the field. Through grants to 11 universities around the United States, this five-year, $34.2 million program will enable these physicists to pursue ambitious, high-risk research, including the development of new experimental techniques. These latest awards are part of a $90 million Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems (EPiQS

• Data Sharing and Intellectual Property Policy

  to grants, program-related investments and other funding vehicles used by the foundation, excluding

• Seeking synthesis, experimental and theory investigators to advance the frontiers of quantum materials science

  research directions. Selected investigators will be awarded six-year research grants, with award sizes

• Conservation International unveils solution to prevent global species extinctions

  Conservation International (CI) today announced an unprecedented global initiative to stop species extinctions in biodiversity hotspots and to protect large areas of major tropical wilderness areas. To launch this effort, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation is providing CI with the largest gift ever given to a private conservation group, with a series of grants totaling up to $261 million over, Foundation grants will be contingent upon CI accomplishing agreed upon outcomes as the initiative

• Perspective: Exploring ways to increase equity in our grantmaking processes

  for this call for Flexible Funding. It was the first time these grants were run as an open, . When to apply it will depend on several factors like the nature of the grants (e.g., project-based

• Caltech researchers and partners discover a seismic slip as barrier to earthquake propagation in Peru

  by grants from the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, /abs/ngeo843.html. The work was funded by grants from the NSF and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (through

• Keck Observatory completes $4 million adaptive optics fund

  Kamuela, HI — The W. M. Keck Observatory has successfully completed a $4 million campaign that will give astronomers the most detailed Adaptive Optics images of the cosmos ever created by mankind. Furthermore, the campaign was funded entirely by private philanthropy. The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the W. M. Keck Foundation and The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation awarded three grants, of federal grants and private support fund most of the technology enhancements to the Observatory

• UH Manoa oceanographer receives $3.85 million grant from Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

  , high risk research that would be more difficult to fund with federal grants. The Moore Foundation’s, funds outcome-based grants and initiatives to achieve significant and measurable results. Grant-making

• Going green: new program provides vital support for plant scientists

  , 2006. Principal investigator on one or more active, national, peer-reviewed research grants, to preserve the autonomy of its scientists as they pursue their research. In addition, through its grants

• Executive Summary_Collaboration for Forests and Agriculture

  to this feld by making a few targeted grants that helped the foundation test approaches and shape a new, and Agriculture grants and sub-grants that relate to the conservation of the Amazon biome

• Moore 2019 GPR Summary of Key Findings

  to significant outcomes beyond their grants, the majority of grantees – 79 percent – reported, several advancements in our field that are the direct result of Moore Foundation grants.” Consistent, of their organizational challenges.  Over time, Moore grants have consistently remained much larger and longer

• Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announces 2024 Moore Inventor Fellows

  and RNA – and learn how they turn chemical energy into physical motion. “We hope these grants

• Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation grant will enable UCSF to train more nursing faculty

  outcomes for future generations. The Foundation funds outcome-based grants and initiatives

• $4.2 million grant to address nursing shortage awarded to CPMC Foundation

  outcome-based grants and initiatives to achieve significant and measurable results. Grantmaking

• Beyond the Lab: Ane Alencar, Ph.D.

  Ane Alencar is the science director at the Brazilian Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia (Institute for Amazonian Environmental Research – IPAM) and a leading expert on Amazonian fire science. She and her colleagues are the recipients of several Moore Foundation grants supporting studies of environmental science and policy in the Amazon. These include research on the impact of fires, road development, and policies to reduce deforestation, as well as the creation of web-based tools

• Perspective: Adaptive management to maximize impact

  to philanthropy, which describes expectations for our grantmaking life cycles, how individual grants

• For the long haul: Pacific groundfish fishery on the rise

  new tech In 2018, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation awarded grants to drive the understanding

• Lessons from our work in marine conservation

  In 2005, the foundation launched our Marine Conservation Initiative to support work toward “healthy marine ecosystems in North America that support sustainable use.” Initially authorized for 10.5 years (2005-2016) and $146 million, the initiative set out to reduce overfishing and habitat degradation in North America through the alignment of conservation outcomes, and economic and social incentives. To achieve these goals, the initiative had awarded $253 million in grants to 135 organizations