Environmental Conservation: Conservation and Financial Markets Initiative Grants

The Gordon E. And Betty I. Moore Foundation offers grants to support innovative projects that address environmental conservation, specifically in the financial markets and high-impact food commodities. Their focus includes transforming production practices to minimize ecological harm while meeting rising global food demands. The Foundation emphasizes collaboration with private sector partners to ensure sustainable practices in resource management and supports initiatives that enhance resilience in supply chains, aiming to decouple environmental impacts from commodity production.

Please note that we do not accept unsolicited grant proposals. Because of our tightly-defined grantmaking strategies, many worthwhile projects fall outside the scope of our funding priorities.
Background
Feeding humanity in 2050 will require at least a doubling in global food production. Now, it’s about getting to scale.
Today, companies are increasingly incentivized to pay attention to the business risks and opportunities stemming from natural resource use to increase resilience in their supply chains. They are setting more stringent purchasing standards and investing in shifting the practices of producers.
Together with our grantees, we are engaging with the private sector in:
High-impact food commodities – Decoupling food commodity production, trading and financing from environmental impacts such as deforestation, habitat conversion, overfishing, water use and greenhouse gas emissions.
Transition minerals – ensuring that the impacts of mining on nature’s ecosystems are accounted for, trade-offs are made transparent, and new mines for high-demand minerals are developed in ways that minimize harm without slowing the energy transition.
Finance — supporting financial institutions in driving the food sector away from production practices that degrade natural ecosystems, in collaboration with the Finance Hub - created to advance sustainable finance.