Imagine you had $300 billion to give away to good causes. You’d do serious homework before you opened your checkbook, right? Seems sensible. If only it were that simple. In fact, $300 billion is what individuals, foundations, and businesses in the United States distribute each year to more than a million nonprofit organizations. Remarkably, often …
An ambitious campaign to protect half of Canada’s 1.1 billion acres of pristine boreal forest from uncontrolled development is succeeding beyond its organizers’ original hopes, and what once seemed likely to be a long, uphill battle has been embraced by the political mainstream. In an age of global warming and the mass extinction of species, …
“Foundations” is a 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. Sara Seims is the director of the Foundation’s Population Program. Before joining the Foundation in 2003, she was president of the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a …
With a new administration in Washington, D.C., the United States will be offering a fresh face to the world. And one organization working to help find solutions to the most pressing global problems the country must address is the Connect U.S. Fund. Through its Web site and grantmaking activities, Connect U.S. encourages collaborations among …
MENLO PARK, Calif. – Participants in the philanthropic world – from foundations and wealthy donors to the non-profit organizations that seek their support – must create a robust marketplace of information about charitable activity if they hope to increase their social impact, a newly released study has concluded. The 68-page study, commissioned by The William …
MENLO PARK, Calif. – From supporting the community fight to clean the air at the Port of Long Beach, to ensuring broad-ranging cultural offerings in the San Francisco Bay Area, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation made $39.9 million in grants in 2008 to 143 organizations serving diverse and disadvantaged communities in California. Organizations receiving …
SAN FRANCISCO and MENLO PARK, Calif. – The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation are pleased to announce six $75,000 grants for the creation and world premiere of six new dance compositions by leading California choreographers, created in collaboration with another California artist of their choice. Each grant will be …
Dear colleagues, The Hewlett Foundation has been committed to serving disadvantaged communities since its inception, and we are pleased to announce plans for a new set of grantmaking activities designed to strengthen organizations that serve minority and low income communities. The nine foundations that participated in this project have spent much of the past year …
MENLO PARK, Calif. – From the development of Web sites that help Mexican citizens track government spending to the creation of a pilot “musical Peace Corps” for public schools, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has announced $125,063,230 in new grants to 214 organizations. Organizations receiving grants ranged across the San Francisco Bay Area and …
The intersection of King and Story roads in East San Jose, California, has long been notorious as gang-infested, violent, and poor-facts that most educators will tell you make it an unlikely location for educational excellence. But just steps from that infamous corner, on a bedraggled middle school campus that promises nothing better, is a school …