Megan Garcia has joined the Foundation as a fellow in its Special Projects Program, where she will support the Foundation’s initiative to advance nuclear security. Garcia, a recent graduate of the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, will be responsible for tracking the state of the field, evaluating the progress …
MENLO PARK, Calif. – Americans for the Arts has awarded its 2010 Emerging Leader Award to Marc Vogl, an officer with the Hewlett Foundation’s Performing Arts Program, for his grantmaking and other work to develop a new generation of arts administrators, Foundation officials announced today. The award, given to one person annually, recognizes exceptional young …
MENLO PARK, Calif. – Margarita María Parra, a chemical and environmental engineer and expert on international environmental policy, will join The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation as an officer in the Foundation’s Environment Program, officials announced today. Parra currently is a program associate at the ClimateWorks Foundation in San Francisco, where she helped develop strategies to …
MENLO PARK, Calif. – Megan Garcia, a recent graduate of the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, will join The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in July as a fellow in its Special Projects Program, where she will help manage grants to advance nuclear security, Foundation officials announced today. While …
MENLO PARK, Calif. – Denis Udall, an expert in school reform and teacher professional development who for the past year has served part-time with the Education Program of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, will join the Foundation full-time as an Education program officer, Hewlett officials announced today. For the past ten years, Udall has …
MENLO PARK, Calif. – From increasing childhood literacy in India to helping improve the air quality in California’s Central Valley, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has announced over $84 million in new grants to 199 organizations. Organizations receiving grants ranged across the San Francisco Bay Area and throughout the world in the Foundation’s six …
A Twenty-First Century Education Hewlett Foundation adopts “Deeper Learning” strategy. Touching Young Lives Reproductive health care clinic for teens does more than the basics. “Foundations” – A Q&A with Patrick Collins, Chief Technology Officer and Director of Grants Administration Patrick discusses the role of technology in making philanthropy more efficient and effective. …
Alex Ezeh, CEO of the African Population and Health Research Center in Nairobi, Kenya, talks about the need for Africa-based research and finding African solutions to African problems. Learn more about APHRC: http://www.aphrc.org/ Learn more about the Hewlett Foundation’s support for population research: http://www.hewlett.org/library/population-dynamics-and-economic-development-filling-the-research-gaps/
A jazz trio from Richmond, California talks about what the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts means to them and to their community. Learn more about the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts: http://www.eastbaycenter.org/ Learn more about the Hewlett Foundation’s support for Bay Area arts organizations: http://www.hewlett.org/programs/performing-arts-program
SAN FRANCISCO and MENLO PARK, Calif. — The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation are pleased to announce the 2010 Composer Collaboration Awards Program. The foundations will provide up to six grants of $75,000 each for the creation and production of new music works by California composers, in collaboration with …