This essay identifies the competing interests at stake in the funding of nonprofit organizations, and categorizes the different types of support a funder may give.

California’s Community Colleges: Hewlett Foundation Education Technology

This paper outlines ideas and strategies to engage alienated and disaffected young people in activities designed to help them acquire skills, gain work experience, and improve their lives This paper outlines ideas and strategies to engage alienated and disaffected young people in activities designed to help them acquire skills, gain work experience, and improve their …

This paper notes how strategies to reach adolescents and young adults are essential to preventing domestic violence.

A PowerPoint presentation focusing on the problems of access to high-quality content and the Hewlett Foundation strategy of academic content distributed freely on the Internet. Presented at the Technology Assessment of Web-Based Learning Conference.

This paper reviews how groups of young adults are likely to have problems connecting with the labor force, and proposes a series of programs and policies to respond to the needs of these groups.

Lessons learned about university-community partnerships drawn from the experience of the Hewlett Foundation’s Neighborhood Improvement Initiative.

In September 2002, educators and representatives of the e-learning industry met, to consider the state of the reuse and sharing of learning-related Web-based material. This is a summary of that meeting.    

A summary of the themes that emerged from a meeting of education and technology experts in 2002 on the state of educational content sharing.

A memorandum detailing forty-three key principles for policymakers looking to speed the transition to clean vehicles and for automakers and oil companies as they design their products for the next decade.