Measurement is at the core of the Moore Foundation. Our founders emphasize that measurement is critical for tracking progress and confirming outcomes, and we take a disciplined approach to assessing our impact, learning and improving. In this month’s Perspective, Julia Klebanov and Mari Wright, Adaptive Management and Evaluation officers at the foundation, discuss the importance of listening to feedback from grantees, and how it that helps improve our relationships and advance our work.
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Closing the accountability loop on commodity-driven deforestation
Razing forests is the second-largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, only behind fossil fuels. To make matters worse, their destruction has the potential to spread emerging infectious diseases, which presents far-reaching consequences. To address these and other challenges, a suite of recently launched transparency and accountability tools are turning the tide in the fight to protect tropical forests.
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New awards to enable experimental leaps in quantum materials
Twenty U.S. scientists awarded grants and named experimental investigators as part of the foundation’s Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems (EPiQS) Initiative. Each investigator will receive support over the next five years to pursue innovative, risky research with a potential for significant advances in the concepts and methods used to investigate quantum materials.
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COVID-19 registry first to track global ICU experience to shed light on trends in care of critically ill patients
The Society of Critical Care Medicine and Mayo Clinic partnered to launch the first global COVID-19 registry that tracks ICU and hospital care patterns in near real-time. This foundation-supported project will provide data for future studies on COVID-19. The outcomes will be particularly helpful to guide management of patients during a possible second wave of the pandemic.
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