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61. Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Background
Established in 2000 in CA.

Founded by Gordon and Betty Moore. Dr. Moore is co-founder of Intel Corporation and is most widely known for his 1965 prediction that the number of transistors the semi-conductor industry would be able to place on a computer chip would double every 12 months. What was intended as a rule of thumb quickly became known as "Moore's Law" and a guiding principle for the delivery of ever more powerful computer chips at proportionately lower costs.

The foundation seeks to advance environmental conservation and scientific research around the world and improve the quality of life in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Purpose and Activities
As responsible stewards of the resources entrusted to them, the foundation forms and invests in partnerships to achieve significant, lasting and measurable results in environmental conservation, science and the San Francisco Bay Area. The majority of funding is directed to organizations whose work supports the foundation's initiatives in its three major program areas.

Program Area(s)
The grantmaker has identified the following area(s) of interest:

Environment Conservation
The foundation's Environmental Conservation Program works to change the ways in which people use terrestrial, freshwater, and coastal marine ecosystems to conserve critical ecological systems and functions, while allowing sustainable use.

San Francisco Bay Area
The goals of the foundation's San Francisco Bay Area Program are to improve the quality of life by sustaining healthy Bay Area ecosystems and conserving critical landscapes; enhancing science education and learning especially for children, and improving the quality of care provided to adults during and following hospitalization.

Science
The foundation's Science Program aims to make a significant impact on the development of provocative, transformative scientific research, and increase knowledge in emerging fields.

Fields of Interest
Subjects
Environment
Science

Selected Grants
The following grants were reported in 2010:

$8,639,634 to Tides Canada Foundation, Vancouver, Canada. For Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area Initiative to produce an Integrated Marine Management Plan, payable over 1 year.

$5,000,000 to California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. For new experiments designed to understand casual link between gene functions, the brain, and behavior, payable over 1 year.

$2,446,138 to Stanford University, Stanford, CA. To study coral resilience in the field and via sea anemone model system, payable over 1 year.

$566,953 to New Forests Advisory, San Francisco, CA. To design ecosystem service products and incentives for private landowners in Brazil, payable over 1 year.

$550,000 to University of California, San Francisco, CA. For Magnet Readiness to improve nursing-related patient outcomes, payable over 1 year.

$299,550 to Nature Conservancy, Durham, NC. To make Global Scale Conservation Datasets available on Google's Earth Engine, payable over 1 year.

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Source: Foundation Center, New York