Early in the twentieth century, the industrialist Andrew Carnegie established the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to create a pension system for the nation’s college professors.The introduction of this pension system proved an ingenious educational reform. At the time, American higher education was a largely ill-dened enterprise with the differences between high school and colleges often unclear. …

Introduction The Hewlett Foundation’s Education Program recently added Deeper Learning practices and policies to its strategic plan. Deeper Learning refers to the content students learn as well as the strategies they use to synthesize and apply new knowledge. In this paper, I review evidence from key studies documenting the extent to which students’ beliefs and …

This memo explains the basis for three special grants we are recommending in the November docket. The grants, proposed in connection with the Cyber Initiative, are for $15 million each to the University of California, Berkeley; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Stanford University. The discussion below explains the basis for our recommendations, describes the …

In March 2014, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (the Hewlett Foundation) engaged consultants from Olive Grove in partnership with Informing Change to assess the effectiveness of the Foundation’s approach to support regranting intermediaries as a means to resource small arts organizations, individual artists, and communities or arts disciplines with which program staff have limited expertise (for instance, folk …

INTRODUCTION The goals of this landscape analysis are to provide an overview of the Bay Area youth-serving funding and nonprofit communities. Key questions guiding the landscape analysis include: I. Who are the key funders of youth-serving organizations in the Bay Area? What youth funder collaboratives exist in the Bay Area? II. What are some of …

Introduction In August 2013, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s Education Program engaged ORS Impact to conduct a cluster evaluation of its advocacy work.1 The evaluation aimed to illuminate opportunities relevant to the Deeper Learning portfolio’s role and influence in the education advocacy and policy landscape. Findings offer actionable insights and raise strategic questions that …

Introduction The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (Hewlett) created the California Education Policy Fund (CEPF)1 in 2011. The CEPF was created at a time of budget crisis and limited policy opportunity within the California policymaking context. Administered by the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA) and its contractor Capitol Impact LLC (CI), the Fund was conceived of …

Introduction For many decades, the Performing Arts Program has held a value for multiyear general operating support as a primary means for helping nonprofit organizations achieve long-term impact. We have a presumption that a grant will be multiyear GOS, as long as the organization’s mission closely aligns with Program’s strategic framework. Multiyear GOS is especially …

Overview Grantmaking to strengthen the field of philanthropy began in 2000, when Paul Brest joined the Foundation as president, and was formalized as a program in 2004. It has always been the smallest of the foundation’s program areas, but it is considered to be “high leverage” because with a few million dollars in grantmaking each …