“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. Michael Scott is an officer with the Foundation’s Environment Program, which makes grants to slow global climate change, to conserve the ecological integrity of the …
Maya Kostyanovsky was very much the typical community college student. The child of immigrants, she was attending De Anza College in Cupertino, California, as the affordable choice on the road to her ultimate educational goal, law school. So when the opportunity arose last fall semester to use a free online textbook for her introductory statistics …
MENLO PARK, Calif. – Helena Choi, an expert in health policy issues in the developing world, will join the Population Program of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation as a program officer, Foundation officials announced today. For the past five years, Choi served as a project program officer with Public Health Watch, a project of …
MENLO PARK, Calif. – From fostering philanthropy within the San Francisco Latino community to nurturing Balinese music and dance in the East Bay, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation made $8.2 million in grants this spring to 36 organizations serving diverse and disadvantaged communities in California. Across the state, organizations received grants in the Foundation’s …
MENLO PARK, Calif. – From pilot programs that teach reading and math to children in Uganda and Kenya to an Oakland record company that teaches leadership to urban youth, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has announced over $154 million in new grants to 287 organizations. Organizations receiving grants ranged across the San Francisco Bay …
When it came to career plans, Mike Marriner, Brian McAllister, and Nathan Gebhard didn’t have a clue. They had crisp, new college diplomas, parents with high hopes – and zero idea what to do with their lives. That’s more common than you might expect. For them, the solution came in the form of a twenty-year-old …
“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. Jennifer Ratay is an officer with the Foundation’s Philanthropy Program, which works to improve the practice of philanthropy within the larger philanthropic community and within …
It’s testimony to the cultural bounty of the San Francisco Bay Area that it is home to the Chitresh Das Dance Company. Das, a child prodigy of Indian dance, founded the company in 1980 to preserve and promote Kathak dance, one of the six major classical dance forms in India. The word Kathak is derived …
Stephanie Cone – Intern, Finance Department. Stephanie Cone graduated in 2008 from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she majored in business economics and minored in accounting. Before her internship with the Foundation, Cone worked in the private company services sector of PricewaterhouseCoopers, specializing in not-for-profit organizations. This summer, she helped the Foundation’s finance …
The Director of Communications at the Hewlett Foundation, Eric Brown, recently joined members of its Population Program for a field visit with the African Population and Health Research Center, a Hewlett grantee, to see firsthand the challenges faced by residents in Nairobi’s slums. The Center is among the premier social science research centers in sub-Saharan …