Source: CEP Two-thirds of foundation CEOs believe that foundations can make a “significant difference” on important issues in society, but far fewer say that foundations are currently reaching that full potential, according to a new Center for Effective Philanthropy report commissioned by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. At the same time, the majority of…
What worker competencies are most important for the 21st century? And can it be shown that to possess them makes a difference in educational or economic outcomes for individuals and organizations? This report summarizes key insights and empirical findings from a wide range of literature on these questions. The report’s sponsor, the Hewlett Foundation, asked …
In 2010, the Hewlett Foundation committed to an ambitious vision for improving public education in the U.S. by ensuring underserved students develop the skills and knowledge to succeed in college, careers and civic life in the 21st century. Education First, an advisory organization for education leaders, has had the privilege of working alongside the foundation…
The Hewlett Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness (OE) program, created in 2004, seeks to help the foundation’s grantees be high-performing organizations, making their work – and ours – more likely to succeed. OE provides small grants to build grantees’ internal capacity in areas like strategic planning, board development, fundraising, and communications. In 2014, the foundation commissioned Social …
What do you believe the arts sector ought to look like twenty years from now? This is a question that every arts funder should be able to answer with a healthy amount of specificity. Whether arts funders choose to acknowledge it or not, much of what we do shapes the future of the field. This …
An independent evaluation of the Hewlett Foundation’s Philanthropy Knowledge Creation and Dissemination Strategy, conducted by Harder+Company Community Research
Last month, the Hewlett Foundation convened our Madison Initiative grantees and some of our philanthropic partners at a retreat center outside Washington D.C. to discuss the work we have in common, explore possibilities for collaboration, and build stronger relationships with one another. This was the second time we’ve brought the group together and we came …
The Community Leadership Project (CLP) is a collaborative effort between the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the James Irvine Foundation, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to build the capacity of small, community-based organizations (community grantees) serving low- income people and communities of color in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Central Coast, and …
The Hewlett Foundation’s Effective Philanthropy Group provides organizational effectiveness support to bolster existing grantees’ resilience. It also makes grants to strengthen the philanthropy sector broadly, and to support the foundation’s own philanthropic practice through organizational learning, evaluation and strategy development.
As part of our commitment to openness and transparency, the Hewlett Foundation has long supported open licensing- an alternative for traditional copyright that allows and encourages sharing of intellectual property. Open licenses, such as those developed by our longtime grantee Creative Commons, protect authors’ rights while giving explicit permission to others to freely use, distribute, and …