Hewlett Foundation President Paul Brest is a long-time advocate of increasing the effectiveness of grantmaking through the use of strategic or outcome-focused philanthropy. It is an approach that has steadily gained currency in recent years with a growing number of organizations, publications, and research initiatives dedicated to its study and practice. Here Brest explores some …
Ruth Levine is director of the Hewlett Foundation’s Global Development and Population Program. A development economist and expert in international health and education, Levine is overseeing the integration of the Foundation’s Global Development and Population programs. Levine comes to the Foundation from the U.S. Agency for International Development. Here she talks about how her career …
“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. In this Q&A, Jacob Harold, Philanthropy Program Officer, explains the thinking behind the Hewlett Foundation’s decision to support Charting Impact, a partnership project of three …
SAN FRANCISCO and MENLO PARK, Calif.— The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation are pleased to announce a new $300,000 fund for the creation and production of new dance and movement works by California choreographers. The works are to be commissioned and premiered by Bay Area nonprofit organizations that can apply …
MENLO PARK, Calif. – Elizabeth Peters, an attorney who is an expert in tax laws affecting foundations and charities, has been named general counsel for The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, its officials announced today. Peters became associate general counsel in October 2010 and has served as acting general counsel since December. Before joining the …
MENLO PARK, Calif. – Erin Rogers, an expert in climate and energy policy in the western United States, has joined The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation as an officer in the Foundation’s Environment Program, officials announced today. Before joining the Foundation, Rogers was manager of western states climate and energy work for the Union of …
MENLO PARK, Calif. – The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has awarded $3.5 million to establish the California Education Policy Fund, an initiative created to support innovative organizations working to reform education policy throughout the state with an emphasis on underserved students, the Foundation announced today. Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, a nonprofit organization with a proven …
haga clic aquí para la versión en español MENLO PARK, Calif. – Libby Haight, a public policy expert with extensive experience in Mexico, will join The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in June as an officer in its Global Development and Population Program in Mexico City, officials announced today. Haight is currently a program officer …
Click here for the English version MENLO PARK, California – Libby Haight, especialista en políticas públicas con amplia experiencia en México, se incorporará en junio próximo a la Fundación Hewlett como Oficial del Programa de Desarrollo Global y Población de la Fundación en la Ciudad de México. Actualmente Libby es Oficial de Programa en el …
Deeper Learning Educating a New Generation to Compete in the World America’s students will compete not just with their classmates but, increasingly, with students throughout the world. And right now, new standardized tests reveal that young Americans are lagging far behind in the skills that will be critical to their, and our nation’s, success. It …