With the meteoric rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI systems kicking off an urgent conversation about its implications for workers, national security, and our whole society; increased bipartisan scrutiny of social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram in the U.S.; and the ongoing war in Ukraine continuing to prompt questions about the role…
Haga click aquí para leer en Español | Click here to read in English En avril 2022, la Fondation Hewlett a lancé sa stratégie de gouvernance inclusive, destinée à promouvoir les efforts des populations mal desservies – en particulier les femmes et les jeunes – pour exercer le pouvoir afin de rendre le gouvernement plus…
Click here to read in English | Cliquez ici pour lire en français En abril de 2022, la Fundación Hewlett lanzó su estrategia de Gobernanza Inclusiva, destinada a promover los esfuerzos de las poblaciones desatendidas, especialmente mujeres y jóvenes, para ejercer el poder a fin de que el gobierno responda mejor a sus necesidades. Nos…
Cliquez ici pour lire en français | Haga click aquí para leer en Español In April 2022, the Hewlett Foundation launched its Inclusive Governance strategy, intended to promote the efforts of underserved populations — especially women and youth — to exercise power to make government more responsive to their needs. We sat down with Diakhoumba Gassama, one…
Click here to read in English Notre stratégie d’autonomisation économique des femmes (Women’s Economic Empowerment – WEE) part du principe qu’une grande partie de la politique économique, si elle s’intéresse aux besoins des femmes, a tendance à se concentrer sur l’adaptation des femmes aux systèmes et aux structures économiques existants, plutôt que de chercher à modifier ces systèmes…
Cliquez ici pour lire en français Our Women’s Economic Empowerment strategy is based on the premise that much of economic policymaking, if it attends to women’s needs at all, tends to focus on changing women to fit into existing economic systems and structures, rather than seeking to change those systems and structures to better address…
Anup Bandivadekar joined the Environment Program as a program officer in December 2021 and supports our clean power and transportation grantmaking. We recently sat down with Anup to discuss how his experience as a grantee has influenced him as a grantmaker, some exciting advancements in transportation electrification, and what gives him hope as we address…
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has a new vision for international economic policy. At our first-ever New Common Sense media roundtable in March, Sullivan explained why ensuring that working Americans benefit from global growth “has to be a national security priority as well as a domestic economic priority.” In April he outlined an approach to…
In March, Chayenne Polimédio joined the U.S. Democracy Program as a program officer. Chayenne leads our National Governing Institutions grantmaking, aimed at strengthening the capacity of our nation’s legislative and executive branches and building public trust. Chayenne shares more about her background and passion for promoting resilient governing institutions, how her time as a grantee…
Preparing today’s young people for full and healthy civic participation has never felt more urgent. Amid rising political rancor and threats to American democracy, it’s hard to see how future generations will make progress on the challenges of climate change, inequality, polarization, technological change, and more, unless they are equipped with baseline knowledge about democratic…