Hewlett and Partners Pledge $30 Million for African Think Tanks Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced $30 million in grants to twenty-four independent policy think tanks in East and West Africa. What’s Next in the Battle Against Climate Change …
MENLO PARK, Calif. – John McGuirk, a veteran Bay Area grantmaker and a former officer in The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s Performing Arts Program, will rejoin the Foundation in November as director of that program, officials announced today. For the past three years, McGuirk has served as director of the Arts Program of The …
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay – The Think Tank Initiative today announced a Call for Expressions of Interest in Latin America. Funded by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Initiative will provide multi-year core funding, training, and technical support to successful think tanks. …
NEW DELHI, India – The Think Tank Initiative today announced a Call for Expressions of Interest in South Asia. Funded by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Initiative will provide multi-year core funding, training, and technical support to successful think tanks. …
“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. Ana Marshall is the director of public investments and deputy chief investment officer for the Hewlett Foundation’s endowment. With twenty-two years of investment experience, …
It should be no surprise that the size and trends of a country’s population should affect its economic well-being. But precisely how these dynamics work is not fully understood. Clarifying the relationship among these factors is a crucial first step toward public policies that can help lift a country’s people from poverty. And it is …
Governments work best when their policies are based on sound research. In the United States and other developed countries, there is a wealth of universities and think tanks to provide it. But not so in most developing countries, where a lack of funding and a resulting brain drain make strong research programs a rarity. To …
In Copenhagen this December, Hewlett Foundation grantees will join with representatives of approximately 170 countries and numerous other nongovernmental organizations to draft what participants hope will be a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, the international agreement to reduce greenhouse gases. And while most people have at least heard of climate change and many are familiar …
Peggy Duxbury, an expert in energy and environmental policy with deep experience in issues related to climate change, will join the Environment Program of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation as a program officer, Foundation officials announced today. For the past three years, Duxbury served as director of governmental and regulatory affairs at Seattle City …
The Community Leadership Project, a creation of three of the Bay Area’s largest private foundations, announced today its first round of grants to intermediary organizations that will work to strengthen nonprofit organizations that are led by or serve people of color and low-income communities in California. This first of two rounds of grants distributes $5.7 …