MENLO PARK, Calif. – The growing movement to make educational materials available to anyone with an Internet connection marked a milestone today when the United Kingdom’s venerable Open University launched a new online collection of curricula, as well as software to enhance its use. The new Web-based program, called OpenLearn, will give students and teachers …
Culture, income and age all can be factors in whether a person has access to good family planning and reproductive health care. Recognizing this, the Hewlett Foundation recently announced a cluster of grants totaling more than a million dollars to organizations whose mission is to broaden the base of support for reproductive health care to …
MENLO PARK, Calif. – The Tech Museum of Innovation this week named Rice University’s Connexions website, which was developed with the support of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, as one of five winners in the education category of its annual awards to recognize the use of technology to benefit humanity. Connexions is a non-profit …
The Philanthropy Workshop West announced today that it has hired Christy Chin to be Associate Director of Alumni Activities. At The Philanthropy Workshop West, a program of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the TOSA Foundation, Ms. Chin will manage ongoing activities and training for graduates of The Philanthropy Workshops West’s donor education program. …
After several years of deep budget cuts, programs to teach California public school students about the arts finally are getting a lift from the state. The new state budget, signed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in June, supplies $105 million in annual funding for arts education and a one-time commitment of $500 million for arts, music, …
Culture, income, and age all can be factors in determining whether a person has access to good family planning and reproductive health care. Recognizing this, the Hewlett Foundation’s Population Program recently announced a cluster of grants totaling more than $1 million to organizations whose mission is to broaden the base of support for reproductive rights …
Two venerable Bay Area community foundations recently agreed to merge, creating one of the nation’s largest such foundations, with assets of more than $1.5 billion to serve local communities. The merger of the Peninsula Community Foundation and the Community Foundation Silicon Valley will create the fourth largest community foundation in the country after the Tulsa …
“The Education of Shelby Knox,” a film that explores issues of teen pregnancy and sex education through the eyes of a teenager coming of age in conservative Lubbock, Texas, won the Henry Hampton Award for Excellence in Film & Digital Media at the Council on Foundations’ 2006 annual conference. The documentary, which was directed by …
The Bayview Hunter’s Point 15-year-old didn’t know the half of it. She had come to the Bayview Hunter’s Point Healing Arts Center to be tested for sexually transmitted diseases, only learn she was four months pregnant. At the Center, staff located physicians she had seen in the past and learned she had multiple health problems …
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has awarded $75,832,468 in new grants to a total of 157 organizations in the Foundation’s core program areas. These grantees are working on a range of important issues, including providing greater access to high-quality educational content on the Internet, preserving North America’s largest forest ecosystem, and creating a lively …