Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

📚💻The Computer History Museum launched OpenCHM, a new digital portal expanding public access to its computing history collections. OpenCHM helps connect learners, researchers and the public to the people and ideas behind modern technology. computerhistory.org/press-releas... #ScienceMuseums

Our new 2026 report on #greenchemistry shows R&D and technology leaders see it as a driver of long-term economic growth and competitiveness. Read more: www.moore.org/article-deta....

Doug McConnell, interpreter of Northern California, has died, aged 80 Doug McConnell spent much of his adult life doing something that sounds simple and is not: he helped people look closely at the places where they lived. For decades he turned Northern California’s ope...

Remembering Doug McConnell — a storyteller who loved nature and the people who care for it. Doug helped preserve the Moore Foundation’s early history and captured stories across the Bay Area and the world. We're grateful for his legacy. news.mongabay.com/2026/01/doug...

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 ...

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...

🌿 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.

Learn more about LIRA’s positive impacts in the Amazon ➡️ www.moore.org/article-deta...

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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…

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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The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's 2025 Community Fund list of names

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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⚛️ 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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🌿 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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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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🛰️ 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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“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

Read Adilene’s perspective ➡️ moore.org/article-deta...

Teams from Cal Academy, Chabot, the Exploratorium, The Tech Interactive & the Lawrence Hall of Science joined the conversation to discuss shared challenges and future opportunities. #Moore25 #BayArea #InformalScience

We’re grateful for their insights.
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The Moore Foundation has long supported these institutions as part of our commitment to expanding science-rich learning across the Bay Area. Their role in sparking curiosity for all ages remains essential. #Moore25 #OutOfSchoolLearning #BayArea #ScienceEngagement www.moore.org/article-deta...

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...

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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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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YouTube video by moorefoundation The Future of Amazonia Reflections: Avecita Chicchón, Moore Foundation

🌳 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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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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25 years of impact thanks to partners like you!

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

📡 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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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

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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How local communities are key to conserving Amazon rainforest In Brazil, the ARPA Comunidades program helps protect the world's largest tropical rainforest

This initiative brings together local communities, government agencies, NGOs, philanthropies, multilaterals and donors around a shared vision: conserving the Amazon while ensuring the long-term vitality of the ecosystems + people who depend on it.

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ARPA Comunidades reinforces the stewardship of those who safeguard the forest by strengthening community orgs, catalyzing socio-bioeconomy enterprises and improving access to electricity and the internet.

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📸: Andre Dib, @wwfbrasil.bsky.social

Avecita Chicchón, Andes-Amazon Initiative program director, signing the Memorandum of Understanding on the launch of ARPA Comunidades (ARPA Communities). Credit: Cristián Samper

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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We’ve supported the Broad Institute to develop Operation Outbreak, an interactive educational effort to spark interest in science and aid the fight against infectious diseases. We look forward to seeing this work continue to drive innovation in public health education + empower the next generation.

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!

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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Louie Porta (@louieporta.bsky.social), our Arctic Ocean Initiative program director, penned a piece that is included in the book, focused on how to safeguard the Central Arctic through conservation and cooperation.

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1. Sealskin whaling vessel, Alaska
2. Caribou, Canada
3: Arctic inlets, Canada

📖 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.

Read the full excerpt ⤵️