In describing its commitment to Deeper Learning, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation “envisions a new generation of U.S. schools and community colleges designed to give all students — especially those from under served communities — the knowledge and abilities necessary to succeed in this new environment.” These schools would create opportunities for students to …

The Hewlett Foundation’s Education Program is committed to openness and transparency in its grantmaking. Recently, the Program revisited its Open Educational Resources (OER) strategy in an effort to better understand how its philanthropic investments—within the context of the larger funding landscape—can help integrate OER into mainstream education. We conducted dozens of expert interviews and commissioned …

Since the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation began investing in open education resources in 2002, the field has grown significantly: the past decade has seen an influx of OER and increased awareness and adoption. However, more work remains to push the OER movement from the sidelines of mainstream education into the center of the classroom. …

Explores the value of high quality standards to measure higher-order thinking and performance skills.

Defines the six Deeper Learning competencies: master core academic content, think critically and solve complex problems, communicate effectively, work collaboratively, learn how to learn, develop academic mindsets.

Deeper learning is the shorthand phrase that the Foundation has adopted to describe this initiative. The term refers to the higher-order skills and academic knowledge that are the surest path to postsecondary education and that students will need to succeed in twenty-first century work and civic life.

Outcome Focused Grantmaking is the approach the Hewlett Foundation uses to guide its strategic and grantmaking decisions. This document is a practical and philosophical guide to the OFG process.

The QEDC Overview outlines the goals of the initiative.

This document describes a strategy planning tool used by the Hewlett Foundation to inform its Western conservation investments. The tool suggests specific philanthropic investments to help the Foundation achieve its Western conservation goals.

This report, entitled Conserving the West, presents the Environment Program’s priorities and strategies for improving the ecological integrity of the West and the specific elements of the plan that the Foundation will implement over the next five years.