“Foundations” is an occasional series of informal question-and-answer sessions with employees of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to let them explain their work. Rhea Suh is an Environment Program Officer who works with grantees on environmental issues from the farthest reaches of Alaska, through Western Canada, to the Mexican border. She received a B.A. …
Alice Bresnan recalls her panic on her first day as a newly minted kindergarten teacher at Green Oaks Elementary School in East Palo Alto’s troubled Ravenswood School District. There before her were twenty wriggling and bright-eyed five-year-olds and not a teaching resource in sight: no little plastic letters of the alphabet, no colorful bins of …
To help ensure that more pregnancies are wanted and welcomed, the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy—a private nonprofit organization based in Washington, DC— is expanding its work to include young adults in their twenties and early thirties while still maintaining a sharp focus on teens. The organization will promote responsible behavior and responsible policies …
As Rosario Rocha rolls through the tough West Sacramento neighborhood of Oak Park, it’s as though she is recalling someone else’s childhood world: the drugs and prostitutes, the school yard violence-and, of course, pregnancy in high school. Today, at twenty-two, Rocha has a vision of the world that ranges far beyond the stifling confines of …
“Foundations” is an occasional series of informal question-and-answer sessions with employees of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to let them explain their work. Laurance Hoagland, Jr.-“Laurie” to all who know him-is the chief investment officer of the Hewlett Foundation. Before joining the Foundation in January 2001, he was president and CEO of Stanford Management …
High on the wall of the lobby of the Freight & Salvage Coffee House in Berkeley is an oil painting of a rangy fellow, legs akimbo, intently plucking a banjo. There is, by the look on his face, only the music. The man is Mayne Smith and, as the portrait tribute suggests, he was there …
Anyone reading the headlines knows that (1) California’s public colleges and universities are experiencing an enrollment explosion unseen since the 1970s, and (2) the state’s need for college graduates is greater than ever. But where can you learn more than what’s in today’s news story? The Campaign for College Opportunity, a nonprofit organization working to …
The world of nonprofit arts organizations must act now to forestall a looming crisis of leadership that will occur as the current baby boom generation of administrators and volunteers starts to retire, according to a newly released report commissioned by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The sixty-two-page report, “Involving Youth in Nonprofit Arts Organizations: …
Community colleges are the fastest growing segment of American higher education – and some say the most vital to America’s future – offering a staggering array of classes and job training programs. But growing enrollment is straining the system, underfunding persists, and in spite of some remarkable success stories, the colleges fail to graduate even …
“Foundations” is an occasional series of informal question-and-answer sessions with employees of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to let them explain their work. Ann Tutwiler is a Program Officer and the Managing Director for Trade and Development with the Foundation’s Global Development Program. In that capacity, she works to reform international trade. Trade reform …