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Hewlett Foundation, Getty Images Announce New Photography Resource on Women’s Empowerment in Africa

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MENLO PARK, Calif.—A new photography resource released today by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and Getty Images Reportage provides more than 400 high-quality, editorial images of empowered women in sub-Saharan Africa. The collection includes photos of women in decision-making roles, earning income, and accessing reproductive health care information and services—creating a positive and authentic …

Op-ed: Foundations Must Move Fast to Fight Climate Change

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MENLO PARK, Calif.—Writing in the Chronicle of Philanthropy, Hewlett Foundation President Larry Kramer and Packard Foundation President Carol Larson urge philanthropic organizations to find a way to engage with the issue of climate change: Climate change is the defining issue of our day. It is an urgent global crisis that affects everything philanthropy seeks to …

The Threat to American Democracy

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Hewlett Foundation President Larry Kramer spoke recently at the Commonwealth Club of California about the origins of our current political polarization and what the Foundation’s Madison Initiative is doing to address it. Audio of his talk is now available.

Creating the Conditions for Deeper Learning

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Katrina Schwartz, writing for KQED’s MindShift blog, on the new Deeper Learning Planning Guide by Monica Martinez and Dennis McGrath: Many school administrators, teachers and parents want the education provided to children to be high quality, rigorous and connected to the world outside the classroom. Teachers are trying to provide these elements in various ways, but a group of …

Career vs. College is a False Choice

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Bob Lenz of Envision Schools (a grantee of our Education Program), in an op ed in the San Jose Mercury News, on the “false choice” between skills and college readiness for high school students: Learning to code is cool, but I fear we will be in an either-or situation: learn code or learn academics. Schools like the ones …

Waging War on Hackers Actually Hurts US Cybersecurity Efforts

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Writing in the Christian Science Monitor, Cyber Initiative Program Officer Eli Sugarman makes the case that hackers—the white hat wearing kind—are critical to U.S. cybersecurity: During his State of the Union address last month, President Obama singled out hackers as one of America’s principal cyber enemies and called for stiffer criminal penalties against them. Fans of this tough rhetoric should beware: …

Compromise as a Core Constitutional Value

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Dick Meyer, writing for DecodeDC: What are the core values of the U.S. Constitution? “We, the people,” the poetic expression of the idea of democratic self-government, is surely at the head of the list. Most of us would probably add the values guarded by the addendum to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights: free speech, freedom …

Feedback Movement Blossoms

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Debra Blum, writing in The Chronicle of Philanthropy: A sweeping movement is under way among nonprofits to more regularly collect information and consider the perspectives of the people they serve. New tools and services, like apps that run text-message surveys, are springing up to aid feedback efforts, and new grant money is trickling in. What’s more, …

California Parks: New Funding, Better Accountability Needed

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Point Lobos State Natural Reserve (Photo Credit: David Seibold, licensed under CC BY NC 2.0) Paul Rogers, writing in the San Jose Mercury News, has a good write-up on a new report from the California Parks Forward Commission, which the Hewlett Foundation supported: California’s venerable state parks—from sunny Los Angeles beaches to towering redwoods in the Santa Cruz Mountains—are under “serious stress” and …

Goodbye Textbooks, Hello Free Online Resources

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Nice piece by Sharon Noguchi in the San Jose Mercury News on the inroads being made by open educational resources: “We’re just at the initial stages of a revolution in education,” said Matt Chamberlain, principal of Venture School, an independent study school in the San Ramon Unified School District. Selecting and managing online material is challenging, “but to put resources …

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