This year has been a busy one as the Chief of Equity and Culture at the Hewlett Foundation. For starters, this was the first year where we began to draw from the $150 million in dedicated racial justice funds to make grants to a number of organizations, including the Color of Change, Race Forward, re:Power,…
Click here to read in English | Haga click aquí para leer en Español La Fondation Hewlett soutient la transparence, la participation et la redevabilité (TPA) depuis le lancement d’un programme de développement mondial en 2005. Au cours de la première décennie, nos subventions se sont concentrées sur la promotion d’un gouvernement ouvert et sur l’avancement…
Click here to read in English | Cliquez ici pour lire en français La Fundación Hewlett ha apoyado la Transparencia, Participación y Rendición de cuentas (“TPA” por sus siglas en inglés ) desde que dio inició a un Programa de Desarrollo Global en 2005. Durante la primera década, otorgamos donativos enfocándonos en la promoción de gobierno…
Cliquez ici pour lire en français | Haga click aquí para leer en Español The Hewlett Foundation has provided support for Transparency, Participation, and Accountability (TPA) since it launched a Global Development Program in 2005. During the first decade, our grantmaking focused on promoting open government and advancing global transparency norms. Over the past five years,…
The Hewlett Foundation started its work on Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) in 2015 to help women achieve “greater agency, opportunities, and control over resources.” We sought to reach this goal by making grants to develop critical policymaking inputs: gender-disaggregated data, improved macroeconomic research, and advocacy to make gender differences visible.
We are excited to announce the release of our refreshed Global Reproductive Equity strategy (English and French). We are immensely grateful for the generosity of our grantee partners, peer funders, and other important stakeholders who informed this work. As we launch the strategy, we are sharing reflections on the process and a preview of the…
The problem of political polarization was the original impetus for the Hewlett Foundation to launch its U.S. Democracy Program more than seven years ago. Since then, Hewlett has made millions of dollars in grants to mitigate the impact of polarization on Congress. Grantees have helped create conditions for significant reforms, including in support of the…
In 2020, the Hewlett Foundation Cyber Initiative engaged evaluation consultants Jodi Nelson and Claire McGuinnes to evaluate its “talent pipeline” grantmaking strategy, which provides funding to universities to train “experts with the necessary mix of technical and non-technical skills and knowledge to staff” the core cyber policy institutions fostered by the initiative, as well as …
The past year has been one of the most tumultuous in the history of American democracy. The major developments that occurred during it are mind-boggling. These included the COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying economic shutdown; the renewed push for racial justice in the wake of George Floyd’s murder; a sharply contested election conducted amid social distancing…
Some parts of the world are emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic, but many others like India are facing their deadliest periods of the crisis. As if that were not enough, uncertainty about how economies will recover persists, and we are still confronted by the challenge of our lifetime: climate change. When it comes to oil…