Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
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| Founded | 2000 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Gordon E. Moore and Betty I. Moore |
| Focus |
Environmental conservation Patient Care Science San Francisco Bay Area |
| Location |
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| Method | Grants |
Key people | Harvey V. Fineberg, President |
Budget | $26 million |
| Endowment | $5.8 billion |
| Slogan | Bold Ideas, Enduring Impact |
| Website | moore.org |
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation is an American foundation that seeks to develop outcome-based projects that will improve the quality of life for future generations. The private foundation focuses upon portfolios of large-scale initiatives and encourages collaboration so as to achieve the most significant and enduring outcomes possible. The foundation was established by Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore and his wife Betty I. Moore in September 2000.[1]
Funding is concentrated on: environmental conservation, patient care, science and the San Francisco Bay Area. Within these program areas, distinct initiatives—grounded in a "theory of change" (a rationale for selecting strategies and activities and a detailed explanation of how they yield positive transformations)—employ a portfolio of grants expected to help achieve large-scale outcomes in a set time frame. The Foundation also awards some grants for unique and opportunistic projects within its focus areas when the expected outcome is high-impact, long-term, and measurable.
On 29 July 2007, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation committed $100 million to launch a nursing school at the University of California, Davis.
Funded projects
Astronomy
Biology
- Center for Ocean Solutions
- Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis
- Foldscope
- Global Ocean Sampling Expedition