“Foundations” is an occasional series of informal question-and-answer sessions with employees and others affiliated with The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to give them an opportunity to explain their work. Kristi Kimball, who reached the end of her term as an officer in the Foundation’s Education Program on December 31, 2011, managed a wide range …
Matt Baker, a commissioner with the Colorado Public Utilities Commission and former executive director of the environmental advocacy organization Environment Colorado, will join The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in late spring as an officer in its Environment Program, officials there announced today. Following his appointment to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission in 2008, Baker …
MENLO PARK, Calif. – The Board of Directors of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation announced today that it has selected Larry Kramer to be the Foundation’s next president. Mr. Kramer, a noted constitutional lawyer, has been dean of Stanford Law School since 2004. Among his many accomplishments, Mr. Kramer helped launch partnerships with Stanford …
MENLO PARK, Calif. – Marc Chun, an expert in assessing student achievement, will join The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in early spring as an officer in its Education Program, officials there announced today. For the past ten years, Chun worked at the Council for Aid to Education, a nonprofit organization based in New York …
“Foundations” is an occasional series of informal question-and-answer sessions with employees and others affiliated with The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to give them an opportunity to explain their work. Erin Rogers, an expert in climate and energy policy, serves as a program officer in the Foundation’s Environment Program. In this role, Ms. Rogers engages …
SAN FRANCISCO and MENLO PARK, Calif.—The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation are pleased to announce the recipients of a $300,000 initiative to support the creation and production of new dance and movement works by California choreographers. This initiative supports innovative California choreographers who reflect both the cultural and aesthetic …
MENLO PARK, Calif. – The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation will award a $100,000 prize to the designers of software that can reliably automate the grading of essays for state tests, Foundation education officials announced today. The software competition is intended to begin to solve the problem of the high cost and the slow turnaround resulting …
At an April 2011 Congressional hearing on creating Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards for mercury and sulfur dioxide emissions at coal-fired power plants, some members of the committee hearing the new rule simply didn’t believe either pollutant was dangerous to health or needed regulation. For its part, the EPA had estimated the new standards would …
MENLO PARK, Calif. – A foundation’s grants aren’t the only way it helps solves social problems. As Hewlett Foundation President Paul Brest explains in an essay accompanying the Foundation’s newly-released 2010 Annual Report, a host of less remarked upon activities can make the grant go even further. In his essay, “Beyond the Grant Dollars,” Brest …