Over the past three years, the performing arts community has shown incredible resilience. Through all the challenges presented by the pandemic, artists continued creating and the Bay Area arts community came together in the spirit of mutual aid to support one another. This spring, with the worst of the pandemic hopefully behind us, the Hewlett…
This piece was originally featured in The New Common Sense newsletter from our Economy and Society Initiative. Read more from this edition. Financial systems have a way of extending their reach into the broader economy and into the lives of ordinary people. But during the neoliberal era of the past half-century, the financial system does not merely reach: It…
In 2017, we launched the Hewlett 50 Arts Commissions in celebration of the foundation’s 50th anniversary. The awards support extraordinary artists working with Bay Area nonprofits to create works with themes deeply meaningful to local audiences. We commissioned 50 works over five years across five performing arts disciplines: music composition, theater & spoken word, dance,…
This piece was originally featured in The New Common Sense newsletter from our Economy and Society Initiative. Read more from this edition. We are in the midst of an essential and transformative change in the commonsense paradigms of economic policy. This emergent post-neoliberal paradigm can be seen across a range of policy debates: the renewed interest in market competition…
The Hewlett Foundation has, for well over a decade, supported organizations around the globe that advance ambitious solutions to the climate crisis. The individuals within these institutions are smart, dedicated, effective, and committed to ensuring more voices are part of advocating for policies and practices that lead to a sustainable, healthy, and prosperous future for…
This piece was originally featured in The New Common Sense newsletter from our Economy and Society Initiative. Read more from this edition. Over the last three years, Chile has been walking a winding constitutional path in search of a new political and economic contract. This quest was initially undertaken as an institutional solution to the sudden wave of riots…
In Southwest Texas, along the Mexican border, the city of El Paso is draped like a necklace around the base of the Castner Range, a former U.S. military installation. Today, the rocky, high desert outcrop is treasured by El Pasoans for, among other wonders, the spectacular display of Mexican poppies that carpet its foothills in…
This piece was originally featured in The New Common Sense newsletter from our Economy and Society Initiative. Read more from this edition. Organizers and advocates often set their sights on next-step policies that will make a meaningful difference in the lives of everyday people, but do not necessarily aim to shift the structures or paradigms at the root of…
The Hewlett Foundation has, for well over a decade, supported organizations around the globe that advance ambitious solutions to the climate crisis. The individuals within these institutions are smart, dedicated, effective, and committed to ensuring more voices are part of advocating for policies and practices that lead to a sustainable, healthy, and prosperous future for…
This piece was originally featured in The New Common Sense newsletter from our Economy and Society Initiative. Read more from this edition. We are living through multiple crises: a global financial crisis, climate change, and the coronavirus pandemic, not to mention the geopolitical crisis. In each case, we seem to be stuck in a reactive mode, cleaning up messes…