MENLO PARK, Calif. – On March 2, 2020, Dr. Jane Flegal will be joining the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation as a program officer with the foundation’s Environment Program, focusing on grantmaking in the U.S. to combat climate change and support a clean energy transition. Program Director Jonathan Pershing announced Jane’s appointment in an email to …
MENLO PARK, Calif. – Vanessa Tucker will be joining the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation as a program officer with the foundation’s Madison Initiative, which focuses on U.S. democracy. Program Director Daniel Stid announced Vanessa’s appointment in an email to the foundation’s grantees and partners: I am delighted to share the news that Vanessa Tucker …
This press release is also available in Spanish, French, and Brazilian Portuguese. Four private US foundations announced today that they are providing at least $20 million in a combined effort to strengthen women’s funds—organizations that provide financial and other support to advance the human rights and opportunities of women, girls, and LGBTQI people in countries …
San Francisco, Calif. – The San Francisco Foundation announced that it has received an unrestricted general support grant for $7.5 million from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation – the largest grant from a private foundation in the San Francisco Foundation’s history. In making the grant, Hewlett Foundation president Larry Kramer highlighted the San Francisco …
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation today announced five top ideas in the international “Cybersecurity Visuals Challenge,” which is focused on producing easily-understandable visuals to better illustrate the complexity and importance of today’s cybersecurity challenges to broad audiences. Five winning designers produced a portfolio of openly-licensed designs aimed at explaining the stakes involved in cybersecurity …
[Issued Oct. 1; Updated Dec. 13]: The Hewlett Foundation provided this statement regarding the wind down of a project launched with a diverse group of charitable funders to support independent academic analysis of privacy-protected data on Facebook’s role in elections and democracy. We were pleased that Facebook made accessible in September another previously unavailable dataset to researchers …
MENLO PARK, Calif.—Fay Twersky, a leader on effective practice in the philanthropy sector, has been named vice president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the foundation announced today. Since 2012, Twersky has served as founding director of Hewlett’s effective philanthropy group, supporting the development of grantmaking strategies, evaluation, and philanthropic practice, while also overseeing …
MENLO PARK, Calif.—The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation announced today that Dana Hovig, an experienced leader of both philanthropic and global nonprofit organizations, has been named the new director of the foundation’s Global Development and Population Program. Hovig will begin his new role on August 15, succeeding Ruth Levine, who will complete her eight-year term …
The Hewlett Foundation’s new, five-year Western Conservation strategy affirms that conservation outcomes will be enduring when they reflect the values of engaged communities. This work requires grantees have sufficient communications and outreach capacity and savvy to build diverse coalitions, including with rural and indigenous communities, and pursue community-driven, collaborative conservation solutions. To this end and…
Twenty-one colleges and universities have partnered with the Ford Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, and New America to launch the Public Interest Technology University Network Launching a first-of-its-kind initiative, 21 of the country’s most innovative colleges and universities, with the support of the Ford Foundation, New America, and the Hewlett Foundation, today announced the creation of …