Since 2004, Hewlett’s Organizational Effectiveness (OE) program has awarded $67 million to more than 750 grantees to support foundation grantees’ organizational strengthening needs. These grants have supported areas such as diversity, equity, and inclusion; strategic planning; communications planning; and leadership transitions — areas often not funded by other funders. With our latest evaluation, we hoped…
Our Education grantmaking is grounded in the idea that when classrooms center students’ identities and shared achievements, all of society benefits. Open educational resources (OER) — freely accessible and adaptable learning materials — offer a promising solution to the perennial problem of delivering high levels of student learning at lower cost. But OER offer much…
The Hewlett Foundation partnered with SRI International to examine the intersection of open educational resources (OER), open educational practices (OEP), and culturally responsive and sustaining practices (CRSP). The evaluation team looked at four K-8 OER programs that provide online courses that are freely accessible and adaptable. The evaluation looked at the design, implementation, and desired …
Click here to read in English La Fondation Hewlett a le plaisir d’annoncer le lancement du processus de mise à jour de sa stratégie intitulée « élaboration de politiques fondées sur des données » (EIP en anglais), dans le cadre de son programme plus large d’Egalité des Genres et Gouvernance (GEG en anglais). Manifestation directe de l’engagement…
Cliquez ici pour lire en français The Hewlett Foundation is excited to launch a strategy refresh process for its Evidence-Informed Policymaking (EIP) grantmaking, within the foundation’s broader Gender Equity and Governance (GEG) Program. A direct manifestation of the foundation’s commitment to outcome-focused philanthropy, strategy refreshes are conducted every five years to ensure that our work…
The San Francisco Bay Area’s traditional arts sector is distinguished by its tremendous breadth and depth. The traditional arts — which include dance, music, theater, chanting, rituals, storytelling, visual art, and material arts — are practiced at events that draw thousands, such as Chinese New Year, powwows, and Dia de los Muertos, as well as…
More than 15 years ago, the Hewlett Foundation’s Performing Arts and Education Programs jointly commissioned from researchers at SRI International the first comprehensive examination of whether California is living up to its own Education Code. The answer was disheartening. Only 11% of schools reported meeting these requirements: to provide a sequential arts education in all…
In 2021, the Hewlett Foundation’s Performing Arts Program commissioned Community Wealth Partners to evaluate its initial 2019 round of organizational effectiveness grantmaking supporting equity, inclusion, and diversity (OE-EID) work by its grantees. Community Wealth Partners delivered a report with analysis and recommendations for future OE-EID grantmaking in July 2022.
What does nonprofit capacity strengthening mean and why is it important? How has it evolved and what are emerging trends in the field? As part of its Organizational Effectiveness (OE) strategy refresh, the Hewlett Foundation’s Effective Philanthropy Group set out to answer these questions and better understand the current field of nonprofit capacity strengthening. Since…
Recognizing the critical need to strengthen staffer professional learning in California, the Hewlett Foundation, Sobrato Philanthropies, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation partnered with Social Policy Research Associates (SPR) to conduct a landscape analysis of the professional learning opportunities available to education policy staffers in the California legislature. Together, they worked closely with Capitol …