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  • Staff and Trustees

    Assistant › Operations › › Communications › › Finance › › Grants Administration › › Human, Colvin Program Finance Officer, Grants Administration Tyler Connolly Director, Officer, Andes-Amazon Initiative Ignacio Estrada Director, Grants Administration, , Symbiosis in Aquatic Systems Anna Kheyfets Grants Officer, Grants, Cathy Manovi Grants Officer Richard Margoluis Chief Adaptive Management and Evaluation

  • US West Coast Marine Conservation: Landscape Assessment and Opportunities Analysis

    The Moore Foundation’s Marine Conservation Initiative has supported ocean conservation in the United States and Canada since 2004. Over the past sixteen years, the foundation’s grants have emphasized marine habitat protection and science-based fisheries management, including substantial work in ocean planning and fisheries management reform in specific geographies. Reauthorized by the foundation, . From 2004 through 2020, Marine Conservation Initiative grants supported a variety of projects

  • Marine spatial planning: progress in a field crucial to ocean conservation

    around the world in various stages of development.” The foundation has provided grants to the UNESCO, the synergy between these two grants, and the importance of supporting ocean planning

  • EPiQS funding to boost quantum materials theory research at six universities

    , and are currently developing grants with them. We used multiple criteria in the selection process, including, million over five years through these six awards. The grants will support Moore Postdoctoral Theory

  • Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems Initiative: Phase 2 external evaluation

    2013 to mid-2018, comprised an investment of $90 million in grants supporting investigators, new, in August 2018, extending through 2024, with grants similar to those awarded in Phase 1. Due to disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Phase 2 grants were extended through the end of 2025. EPiQS funds are distributed across four strategies: 1. People (university-based theory centers and grants to individual experimental investigators). 2. Materials synthesis (grants to individual materials

  • Marine Microbiology Initiative evaluation

    by 2019. MMI’s key activities toward achieving its goal involve providing research grants, Initiative Final Report January 2018 iv the portfolio. Multidisciplinary team grants and investigator, microbiology community of exclusivity in the allocation of grants, and (2) develop a more explicit, be reasonably attributed to the MMI interventions (strategies, approaches, grants, workshops, and other program, ? ...............................................................................................12 Figure 2 Distribution of grants

  • First trust fund for Brazil’s Kayapó to protect vast swath of Amazon rainforest

    ) to provide in grants, Conservation International announced today. Grants will be targeted, activities for the Kayapó people. These grants will benefit approximately 7,000 people in five, focused on Brazil's biodiversity. Grants will be used to help conserve an area of 10.6 million hectares, encroachment from ranchers, loggers, gold-miners and fishermen. The grants are meant to support, of the Kayapó, said: "It is good that grants will go to projects managed by indigenous people to generate

  • POST launches $200 million campaign to save the endangered San Mateo Coast

    . The two gifts are believed to be the largest grants ever made to a local land trust in the United States. "These record-setting grants from the Packard and Moore Foundations are a tremendous vote, said. "This $50 million grant is one of the largest grants ever made by the Packard Foundation. It, . The Packard and Moore Foundation grants challenge the rest of us to step forward. We'll be counting, Packard Foundation provides grants to nonprofit organizations in the following broad program areas

  • Grant Development Review

    prospective grantees and foundation staff creates grants with impact. Thus, we have a highly interactive, closely with other colleagues, including program associates and grants administration staff, to form, a broader perspective on innovation and connection that can help make grants more effective, , consultants and contractors, sub-grants, other direct expenses, capital expenditures and a description, costs, excluding consultants and contractors, sub-grants, endowments, capital expenditures, fee

  • CaItech Evaluation

    and physical sciences. As of 2012, 29 grants, ranging from $1 million to $28 million each were used, examined the Commitment grants, reviewed numerous key documents, interviewed dozens of grantees, Te lescope). Impacts for Science • Nearly all of the grants funded under the Commitment realized, impacts on science, industry, government, and the general public over time. Half of the grants, as they are known today. - Te c tonics Observatory grants led to new methods and software (some free

  • When scientific research can’t get federal funds, private money steps in

    . That figure is a fraction of the $60-billion in science grants made by the Departments of Defense and Energy, administrative or bureaucratic effort to run federal grants there. We couldn’t think of doing that without, with fresh ideas who haven’t yet been able to tap into the federal-grants pipeline. The average age at which researchers receive their first federal grant is 43, with only 1 percent of grants from, Institute has come to rely more and more on private dollars as federal grants have flattened out

  • Science Learning+: exploring the impact of informal science learning

    Grants in 2014, to enable initial collaborations and ideas development, and expanding to longer-term Partnership Grants in 2015, for research programmes of up to five years. Applications for phase 1, Planning Grants, are now open

  • SF Bay Area Conservation External Evaluation: Assessing Stewardship Outcomes and Project Impact

    IMPACTS OF ENABLING INTERVENTION GRANTS, Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano and Sonoma. The program funds “land protection” grants that support acquisition and easement of ecologically valuable properties and “enabling intervention” grants that support, of the portfolio; 3) a synthesis of results regarding stewardship outcomes achieved by land protection grants; and 4) a synthesis of results regarding the impact of enabling intervention grants. 1.2

  • Lessons in funding the basic science of quantum materials

    synthesis investigators and fellows, and theory centers, along with funding for equipment grants, the external evaluation and expert panel report include: The impact of research grants can be amplified through community-building efforts. While the majority of EPiQS grants are to individual researchers, quantum materials researchers. When making grants designed to provide researchers with unconstrained

  • Uncovering evidence of methane-producing life--at the surface of the Earth?

    and Save the Redwoods to help conserve this rare and unique landscape in Sonoma County (see grants GBMF2480

  • Ken Moore named chief administrative officer of Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

    Palo Alto, Calif. – The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation appointed Ken Moore as chief administrative officer. Moore will lead facilities, finance, grants administration, human resources and information technology for the $6 billion private foundation. “We are fortunate to be able to tap Ken’s expertise to oversee our administrative functions,” said Harvey V. Fineberg, M.D., Ph.D. “This is especially critical as we work to optimize our core operations in the year ahead.” Ken Moore also serves

  • Seinfeld's Elaine reminds us why we should have our medical records

    , which grants the legal right for any person to view and obtain his or her medical records. Our grantees

  • Can better data help save the oceans? This big foundation thinks so

    Data and oceans are two of the biggest topics in philanthropy these days, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation is a leader in both. One of its latest grants targets the intersection of the two, just off the Mid-Atlantic coast. The foundation recently awarded $1.6 million to Monmouth University in support of the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Data Portal, a collaborative project to pool together data and mapping into one tool that can serve all kinds of oceans stakeholders in the region. It’s

  • Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation applauds federal funding for Earthquake Early Warning System

    and Betty Moore Foundation has invested $6.5 million through grants to Caltech, UC Berkeley

  • Intel co-founder establishes new multibillion dollar foundation; Coleman named president

    be brought to the Foundation's attention, though grants will be made as rapidly as qualifying projects, positive outcomes for future generations. The Foundation funds outcome-based grants and initiatives

  • Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to fund Betty Irene Moore Nursing Initiative

    acute illness in the aging patient population compound this situation. The portfolio of grants, generations. The Foundation funds outcome-based grants and initiatives to achieve significant and measurable

  • Scientists identify material for quantum spin liquids

    in solid matter. Taken together, the spin of the material's electrons grants the same magnetic, grants the same magnetic properties to the material itself. Read more at: http://phys.org

  • Former San Francisco Mayor Frank Jordan to join Moore Foundation

    Former San Francisco Mayor Frank Jordan has been appointed Special Advisor to the President of the newly formed Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Foundation announced today. In his new role, Jordan will serve as the multibillion-dollar charitable foundation's principal counselor on the impact of potential grants in the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area, and as senior advisor on matters, positive outcomes for future generations. The Foundation funds outcome-based grants and initiatives

  • Our Approach

    is implemented mainly through three mechanisms — initiatives, commitments and standalone grants, and goals through complementary grants with a budget and timeframe approved by the board. Examples, an outcome and goals adopted by the institution(s) through one or more grants and with a budget, . The articulation of outcomes for initiatives, commitments or standalone grants may vary by program, relevant to initiatives, commitments and standalone grants. The complexity of a given theory of change

  • 2012-GBMF-990PF-Full

    the amounts in column (a) (see instructions).) 1 Contributions, gifts, grants, etc., received (attach, and administrative expenses. Add lines 13 through 23 mmmmmmmmmm 25 Contributions, gifts, grants paid mmmmmmm, for doubtful accounts I 4 Pledges receivable I Less: allowance for doubtful accounts 5 Grants, mmmmmmmmmmm 18 Grants payable mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm 19 Deferred revenue, , grants, etc. (see instructions) to individuals or organizations under other conditions, complete items