Editor’s note: This essay is part of a series of symposium reflections. Since the presidential election in November, I have been approached often by friends, colleagues, or family members with sentiments along these lines: “I’ve been thinking about you and how difficult the next few years are going to be for reproductive health and rights.” …
Editor’s note: This essay is part of a series of symposium reflections. As someone who has worked on energy and climate for 25 years, one of the most heartening news to come out of the Hewlett Foundation’s 50th anniversary symposium was a new finding about what foundation presidents care about. Research from the Center for…
Editor’s note: This essay is part of a series of symposium reflections. Educate girls or help women have the number of babies they want? Make it easier for businesses to expand or give poor people cash? Advocate for more philanthropic funding or use your own resources on new ideas that you think have a chance …
One of the big issues in the 2016 election was the vast amount of money spent on political campaigns. Polls consistently suggest that more than 80% of Americans want to see our country’s campaign finance system reformed. It’s also a big issue in the nonprofit world. From 2011 to 2016, the Foundation Center identified campaign …
Pat Wayne is the program director at CreateCA, California’s statewide arts coalition, and a grantee of the Hewlett Foundation. Her organization launched a new project to help increase participation and ensure student success in arts education by providing a set of tools that shows exactly where and what arts classes are offered across the state. …
The end of 2016 will go down in history as a time of political chaos and worries about “post-truth politics” in Europe and the United States. The Oxford English Dictionary even made “post-truth” the word of the year in 2016. For evidence enthusiasts looking for hope, look no further than the global south, where developing …
More than 3000 government and civil society representatives from 70 countries will gather in Paris from Dec. 7-9 for the Open Government Partnership Global Summit. The Open Government Partnership (OGP) is a high-level platform for governments and their citizens to work together around national and global problems neither can solve alone. On the 2016 agenda: …
Recent events — from police shootings to polarized national political debates — underscore the urgency and challenges of building diversity, equity and inclusion into our everyday work. The tensions and conflicts we are experiencing sadden us and compel us to act. Over the summer of 2016, our Education Program launched a diversity, equity and inclusion …
For those who care about the future of our planet, last week offered an unexpected glimmer of hope from the president-elect. For the first time, Donald Trump indicated he was open to fulfilling our international commitments on climate change, and he said that clean air and water are “vitally important.” Or maybe not. Days later, …
Hewlett board members, leaders, and grantees reflect on how Bill and Flora Hewlett’s vision has shaped the foundation over the last fifty years.