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Foundation president, Harvey Fineberg, and chairman emeritus and co-founder, Gordon Moore, discuss the Statement of Founders’ Intent with staff.

 
 
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  • 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

  • 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

    . As of 2012, 29 grants, ranging from $1 million to $28 million each were used to support: new, grants, reviewed numerous key documents, interviewed dozens of grantees and key stakeholders, for Science • Nearly all of the grants funded under the Commitment realized or will realize, , industry, government, and the general public over time. Half of the grants developed new technologies, . - Tectonics Observatory grants led to new methods and software (some free for non-commercial use

  • 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, , Solano and Sonoma. The program funds “land protection” grants that support acquisition and easement of ecologically valuable properties and “enabling intervention” grants that support, ) 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. EVALUATION OBJECTIVES

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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, to initiatives, commitments and standalone grants. The complexity of a given theory of change

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  • 2015-GBMF-990PF-GrantsPaid

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  • Flexible funding enables swift response to new developments in quantum materials

    with the potential to make breakthroughs in the field. These flexible funding grants also serve to enable swift responses to new developments in quantum materials. The initiative portfolio of flexible grants, . Request for ideas Application to submit ideas for the 2023 flexible funding grants opens on April 4, 2023

  • Long-term and flexible support for masterful experimentalists and creative materials growers

    2020 Flexible Funding grants. These grants support projects with exceptionally high potential, . The submissions are evaluated by experts through a double-blind anonymous reviewing process and the grants

  • Caltech receives $600 million in two gifts; largest academic donation in history

    education, and the Bay Area. The foundation's grants of $300 million over a 10-year period and the Moore's, upon. "We are delighted to be able to make significant long-term grants to Caltech. These grants