Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

**Creating positive outcomes for future generations** Guided by this vision and the [Statement of Founders' Intent](https://www.moore.org/about/founders-intent), each day we strive to make a significant and positive impact on the world. We tackle large, important issues at a scale where we believe we can make significant and measurable impacts. We know that our ability to take risks and make long-term and relatively large commitments allows us to undertake challenges not accessible to many other organizations. **Our Mission** We advance scientific discovery, environmental conservation, and the special character of the San Francisco Bay Area. **Our Values** The following core values reflect the character and beliefs of Gordon and Betty Moore and guide the foundation’s work. **Impact** **- We strive to achieve large-scale, enduring impact.** - Investing on a sufficient scale to make a difference on important issues. - Taking the long view, staying the course and persisting. - Seeking to create durable, not temporary, change. - Taking calculated risks and supporting new ideas for significant change. - Focusing on root causes, not symptoms, to create systemic change. **Integrity - We hold ourselves accountable to our founders’ ideals and aspirations.** - Carrying out our work with uncompromising integrity and committing to the highest standards of conduct. - Communicating honestly, clearly and in a timely manner. - Using the resources entrusted to us responsibly. - Holding ourselves to the same standards that we ask of others. **Disciplined Approach** **- We take a systematic, evidence-based approach.** - Developing and implementing, evidence-based, well-vetted theories of change. - Testing our assumptions and challenging our thinking; we adaptively manage to address changing conditions. - Evaluating our impact, learning and improving, we establish outcomes which we can measure using both quantitative and qualitative approaches. - Consistently implementing full cycles of planning, execution, evaluation and improvement, we learn from both our successes and failures. - Staying well informed and making decisions on the basis of knowledge, analysis, external input and objective due diligence. **Collaboration** **- We collaborate with respect and purpose.** - Recognizing that our impact is achieved through the efforts of our grantees and others. - Working with others, respecting their ideas, values and time. - Listening to varying points of view, including those that may differ from our own. - Gathering and incorporating the best thinking into our work. - Respectfully challenging ourselves and our partners to strengthen our collective thinking. - Fostering collaboration when we can create a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.