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Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
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We foster path-breaking scientific discovery, environmental conservation, and preservation of the special character of the Bay Area.
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Nature’s recovery is possible when we invest for the long term. Return of Coho salmon in Sonoma County marks an important milestone in regional ecosystem restoration & years of coordinated effort by scientists, public agencies, community partners and funders. wildlandsconservancy.org/stories/coho...
Coho Salmon Return to Jenner Headlands! » The Wildlands Conservancy
For the first time in decades, something truly special is happening at Russian Gulch Creek in Jenner Headlands Preserve — juvenile coho salmon have returned. These tiny, silvery fish are making their ...
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January 7, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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🌿 The Integrated Legacy of the Amazonian Region (LIRA) project aims to secure long-term conservation gains in the Brazilian Amazon while ensuring its communities and ecosystems can thrive together.

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December 31, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Thanks to a generous @moorefound.bsky.social grant, @agu.org Thriving Earth Exchange created 4 short videos showcasing recent community science projects. 📽️🌎💫

We hope you will join us in celebrating and sharing these videos.
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Celebrating the Stories Behind Community Science
Thanks to a generous grant for the Moore Foundation, AGU Thriving Earth Exchange commissioned four videos about recent community science projects. Each video shares the people, stories…
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December 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Through our 2025 Community Fund, the Moore Foundation supported local nonprofit orgs in Santa Clara & San Mateo counties whose work addresses essential community needs and contributes to long-term community resilience. ➡️ Learn about the 2025 Community Fund recipients:
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The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's 2025 Community Fund list of names
December 31, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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⚛️ With Moore Foundation support, M. Zahid Hasan and his team identified materials that host the elusive Weyl fermions — massless, free-flowing quasiparticles — a breakthrough that helped launch a new direction in quantum materials research.

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December 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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🌿 Moore Foundation grantees are driving transformative conservation across the Amazon through innovative Project Finance for Permanence initiatives in Colombia, Peru and Brazil. These efforts are securing the future of the Amazon rainforest.

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December 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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In 2002, we invested $9.1 million in grant funding to establish the Laboratory for Adaptive Optics at @ucsantacruz.bsky.social — an investment that helped strengthen UCSC’s position as a national center for advancing astronomy research.

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December 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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🛰️ In 2013, with our support, Greg Asner and his team at the Global Airborne Observatory launched CLASlite Classroom, a collection of free and open-to-the-public advanced forest monitoring tools — enabling people to monitor forests globally. 🌳

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December 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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“Protecting the places we love is not only about the land itself but also about the people who commit themselves to its care. The future of conservation lives in those who will inherit these landscapes.” — Adilene Moreno, Moore Foundation

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December 13, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Museums Reimagined, part of our 25th Anniversary Symposia series, brought together Bay Area science museums to explore how they can continue engaging communities in a rapidly changing world. #Moore25 #ScienceLearning www.moore.org/article-deta...
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As part of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s 25th anniversary symposium series, staff from across the Bay Area's five largest science museums — Californi…
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December 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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We’re delighted to announce that Aileen S Lee has been appointed president of the Moore Foundation, effective January 1, 2026. Aileen’s two decades of leadership and vision embody the foundation’s mission to create positive outcomes for future generations.

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Aileen S Lee named president of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Palo Alto, Calif. — [December 9, 2025] — The Board of Trustees of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced today the appointment of Aileen S Lee as the f…
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December 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Our Data-Driven Discovery Initiative advanced transparent, reproducible research — uniting academic institutions, funders and scientific associations — and filled a critical gap through investment in quality, user-friendly tools that enable reliable, accessible science.

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Lessons from our work in data-driven science
The Data-Driven Discovery Initiative was initially approved in 2012 by the Moore Foundation’s board of trustees to explore ways of accelerating research that us…
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December 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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🌳 Avecita Chicchón leads the Moore Foundation’s Andes-Amazon Initiative, which has helped conserve 400 million+ hectares in the Amazon since 2001. In this interview from The Future of Amazonia, Avecita underscores the urgent need for continued support in the Amazon region.

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The Future of Amazonia Reflections: Avecita Chicchón, Moore Foundation
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December 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Identidad Madidi — a Moore Foundation-supported series of expeditions in Bolivia’s Madidi National Park — investigated 14 habitats spanning 6K meters from the Andes to the Amazon in one of Earth’s most biodiverse protected areas.

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December 2, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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We’re grateful for the partners and grantees whose dedication and insight make meaningful progress possible. Thank you for all you do. We look forward to what we can continue to accomplish together. #Moore25
25 years of impact thanks to partners like you!
November 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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📡 The Moore Foundation enabled the global Event Horizon Telescope by supporting development of ultrafast data acquisition electronics that made it possible to link telescopes around the world to create an Earth-sized virtual observatory capable of imaging #BlackHoles.

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Early funding transformed a scientific dream into reality
On Wednesday, April 10, 2019, black holes were transformed from an abstraction to reality when the Event Horizon Telescope presented the first-ever image of a b…
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November 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Moore Inventor Fellow Gozde Durmus is developing label-free tools to analyze millions of cells in real time. Her work contributed to the breakthrough Electro-LEV platform, which offers new possibilities for cell analysis and label-free cell sorting in various biomedical fields.

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Scientists Classify Cells Based on Levitation Height
In a remarkable leap forward for cellular biology and biomedical engineering, researchers at Stanford Medicine have unveiled a groundbreaking device that can manipulate cells mid-air with invisible
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November 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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At COP30 in Belém, Brazil, a broad coalition of our partners announced ARPA Comunidades (ARPA Communities) — a powerful next step in securing the Amazon’s ecological integrity by aligning nature protection with resilient, sustainable community stewardship.

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Avecita Chicchón, Andes-Amazon Initiative program director, signing the Memorandum of Understanding on the launch of ARPA Comunidades (ARPA Communities). Credit: Cristián Samper
November 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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The MacArthur Foundation today announced the winner of this year’s 100&Change award: Sentinel at @broadinstitute.org. Sentinel is an outbreak surveillance framework that prevents pandemics through local community empowerment.

Congrats to the Sentinel team, incl. foundation trustee, Pardis Sabeti!
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The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, we work to ...
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November 19, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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What if the powerful particle accelerators of big physics labs could fit on a silicon chip? That’s precisely the vision behind the Accelerator on a Chip (ACHIP) — a Moore Foundation-funded, international, long-horizon effort to create a dielectric laser accelerator.

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Particle accelerators for the microchip era
Swinging for the fencesThe term “particle accelerator” might lead most people to envision long underground tunnels stretching tens of kilometers and rooms full…
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November 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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📖 Ocean for Life, a book produced by the Human Development Forum, shares insight into the ecological, social, and economic importance of marine conservation and restoration efforts, while also producing practical steps and solutions to protect these critical ecosystems.

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An emerging ocean: Safeguarding the Central Arctic through conservation and cooperation
Originally published in Ocean for Life, a book produced by the Human Development Forum.Today, we are witnessing a new ocean emerging. For almost all of human hi…
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November 14, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Since 2004, we’ve invested in 20+ open-access projects to advance cutting-edge DNA sequencing technologies that are unlocking nature’s ecological mysteries and improving our understanding of the evolution of life.

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November 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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The power of convenings is at the heart of the Moore Foundation’s Experimental Physics Investigators Initiative, which brings researchers together to advance experimental physics through collaboration and creativity.

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The power of convenings: Building connections that accelerate discovery
The Experimental Physics Investigators Initiative was created to advance the basic research frontier in experimental physics by identifying extraordinary scient…
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November 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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💧 With Moore Foundation support, Stanford U. researchers pioneered a method for imaging California’s groundwater based on surface, airborne and satellite measurements — prompting the state to invest more than $10M in mapping aquifers throughout the Central Valley.

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November 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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We are pleased to share the launch of the Catalytic Capital for the Agriculture Transition (CCAT) fund — a new investment fund that aims to make restoring degraded land more productive and profitable for Brazilian farmers.

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New Fund Aims to Make Land Restoration Pay Off for Brazilian Farmers
Catalytic Capital for the Agricultural Transition fund formally launches with $50 million anchor support from the Moore Foundation, Norway’s NICFI and other inv…
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November 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM