John E. McGuirk is director of the Foundation’s Performing Arts Program, which makes grants to support the arts in the San Francisco Bay Area. Here, he explains the Program’s new strategic plan for grantmaking and why it was adopted. What prompted the decision to embark on a new strategic framework for grantmaking in the Performing …
Adelante Latina is the first and only teen pregnancy prevention program in Cutler-Orosi and surrounding towns. Maria Guadalupe Diaz Rojas, a program graduate who is now a community college freshman and a returning peer leader, speaks with the class about self-image and aspirations. Photo courtesy of Latino Commission/Adelante Latina. Drive fifty miles southeast of Fresno …
MENLO PARK, Calif. – At the end of a dozen years as head of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, President Paul Brest has issued a State of the Foundation report that describes a thriving organization, focused on the progress and outcomes of the grants it makes and striving to make philanthropic practices more effective. …
Susan Bell served as vice president of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation from 2000 to summer 2012. During this time, she worked in a variety of capacities, from directing the Foundation’s efforts to improve the practice of philanthropy to helping launch the ClimateWorks Foundation, an international grantmaking organization working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. …
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation commends the National Research Council for its hard work reviewing existing research to help determine what students need to thrive in the classroom and as adults. We understand that more research still needs to be done – and the Hewlett Foundation is committed to doing it – but we …
The National Research Council, a private, nonprofit institution chartered by Congress to provide unbiased expert advice on matters of public policy, released a report, funded in part by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, entitled Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century. Key Findings Validates an educational approach …
MENLO PARK, CA/CHICAGO, IL/QUINCY, MA — In a newly-issued report funded by several foundations across the U.S., including The William and Flora Hewlett, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur, and Nellie Mae Education foundations, the National Research Council (NRC) validates an educational approach called “deeper learning,” which emphasizes critical reasoning and a suite of other …
MENLO PARK, Calif. – Fay Twersky, an expert on philanthropy and the nonprofit sector, will extend her role as senior fellow at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation into the fall of 2013, Foundation officials announced today. Working with the Hewlett Foundation’s incoming president, Larry Kramer, who assumes his position in September, Twersky will continue …
SAN FRANCISCO and MENLO PARK, Calif.— The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation are pleased to announce a $300,000 fund for the creation and production of new plays by California playwrights. The works are to be commissioned and premiered by Bay Area nonprofit organizations that can apply for grants of …
MENLO PARK, Calif. – In a periodic survey designed to solicit the opinions of nonprofit organizations that receive funding from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the organizations say the Foundation has improved on nearly all measures since the surveys began in 2003. The nonprofit organizations give the Foundation higher than average marks for having …