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Perspective: Grateful for this place we call home

By Linda Baron and Sue Crockett
In this month’s Perspective, Linda Baron and Sue Crockett, long time executive assistants at the foundation, highlight why a passion for this region is in our DNA and how we support the community that means so much to us.
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GRANTEE NAME: Coral Reef Alliance
PROGRAM AREA: Environmental Conservation
FIRST GRANT: 2012
TOTAL NUMBER OF GRANTS: 3
CUMULATIVE GRANT AMOUNT: $3,970,634

Working with people around the world — from fishermen to government leaders, divers to scientists, Californians to Fijians — the Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL) protects coral reefs, one of our most valuable and threatened ecosystems. CORAL leads partnership-based conservation programs that reduce local threats to reefs and that can be replicated and scaled globally. They are also spearheading new scientific research into how coral reefs adapt to climate change and applying this new knowledge conservation. By combining on-the-ground conservation with novel scientific research, CORAL is addressing the severe threats affecting coral reef ecosystems and the human communities they support.
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Peninsula Open Space Trust purchases a special piece of land in Coyote Valley
Nestled in southern Santa Clara County, Coyote Valley spans 2,400 acres of wetlands, hills, oak groves and active farmlands. It is an irreplaceable link for regional habitat and biodiversity in the San Francisco Bay Area, which is why local nonprofits are working to conserve it. Recently, the foundation supported Peninsula Open Space Trust's purchase of a 63-acre property in the Coyote Valley.
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Seafood entrepreneurs address challenges in the seafood sector
To maintain healthy and sustainable businesses, communities and wider ecosystems, good resource management and conservation practices are essential. However, a truly sustainable seafood sector faces a variety of challenges. Recognizing the need to address these challenges, we supported the Fish 2.0 business competition to help advance sustainable fisheries, with a particular focus on New England wild capture fishery businesses. Eight sustainable businesses were honored at the Fish 2.0 Innovation Forum in November.
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How the public views and experiences serious illness late in life
A growing number of Americans are living with serious illness and complex medical issues. Unfortunately, many people are not taking the necessary steps to prepare for the later phases of life. We recently conducted a survey with the Kaiser Family Foundation to better understand how people view and experience these conditions. This survey will serve as a baseline to measure how public attitudes and experiences change over time.
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Using light to separate mirrored molecules
A new technique that uses light to separate molecules with an identical structure could someday be used to increase the efficacy and safety of pharmaceutical drugs and reduce the toxicity and environmental impact of chemicals used in agriculture. Moore Foundation grantee, Jennifer Dionne, and her colleagues at Stanford University and FOM Institute AMOLF in the Netherlands, have developed an ultra-small filter that, when illuminated with a laser, attracts a molecule while repelling its mirror image. This is important because while the twin molecules may look alike, they do not act like – which can have significant consequences. Dionne was recently selected as a 2017 Moore Inventor Fellow.
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