Hewlett Foundation

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Founder William Redington Hewlett and Flora Lamson Hewlett
Type Private foundation
Location
Method Endowment
Key people
Larry Kramer, president
Endowment $9 billion[1]
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The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, commonly known as the Hewlett Foundation, is an American private foundation, established by Hewlett-Packard cofounder William Redington Hewlett and his wife Flora Lamson Hewlett in 1966.[2] The Hewlett Foundation awards grants to a variety of liberal and progressive causes.[3][4]

With assets of approximately $9 billion, Hewlett is the fourth-wealthiest grant maker in the United States.[1][5] The Foundation has grantmaking programs in education, the environment, global development and population, the performing arts, and philanthropy. The Hewlett Foundation is based in Menlo Park, California.

Programs and grants

Education

In 2001, the foundation gave $400 million to Stanford University for humanities, sciences, and undergraduate education. At the time, the gift was the largest on record to a university.[6] In 2007, the Hewlett Foundation made a $113 million donation to the University of California at Berkeley to create 100 new endowed professorships and provide financial help for graduate students.[7]

In May 2010, the Hewlett Foundation announced its strategy of "Deeper Learning", a term that describes a set of student educational outcomes.[8]

Hewlett and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation helped to develop the field of OpenCourseWare.[9] Hewlett seeded the Creative Commons project with $1 million.[10]

Climate

In 2008, the foundation awarded the Climate Works Foundation approximately $460,800,000.[11] Hewlett funded restoration of the Bay Area Salt Ponds[12] and conservation of the Great Bear Rainforest in Canada.[13]

Hewlett's Environment Program makes grants to support conservation in the North American West, reduce global warming and conventional pollution resulting from the use of fossil fuels, and promote environmental protection efforts in California. The Hewlett Foundation opposes coal and natural gas development.[4]

Journalism

Hewlett collaborated with the Center for Investigative Reporting to create California Watch, an investigative reporting project focused on California news.[14]

Reproductive health

The Hewlett Foundation make grants in developing countries and in the United States to provide family planning and reproductive health services.[15] The Hewlett Foundation has given major financial support to Planned Parenthood and the International Planned Parenthood Federation.[16][17][18]

See also

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