The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (CA)



The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation was established by entrepreneur William R. Hewlett with his wife, Flora Lamson Hewlett, and eldest son Walter B. Hewlett.


The foundation's programs aim to help reduce global poverty, limit risk of climate change, improve educations for students in California and elsewhere, improve reproductive health and rights worldwide, support vibrant performing arts in the community, promote philanthropy, and support disadvantaged communities in the San Francisco Bay Area.


The foundation is classified as a private foundation under section 509(a) of the Internal Revenue Code. Hence, it is independent of the Hewlett packard Company and the Hewlett Packard Company Foundation.

Web Address

www.hewlett.org

Social Media Links

Facebook - www.facebook.com/HewlettFoundation

Twitter - @Hewlett_Found

Foundation Grants and Resources





    

Recent News from Hewlett Foundation


Hewlett, Knight, Koch foundations, with other funders, will support independent research on ...
Foundation: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Knight Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, Laura and John Arnold Foundation

Facebook will grant these scholars access to proprietary data that has met the company's new, heightened security around user privacy. The committee will define research topics and invite the broader...more

Paul Feely's City Hall: Expect a call if your child is absent from or late for school
Foundation: Hewlett Foundation

Normand also received board approval to apply for a grant of up to $10,000 from the New Hampshire State Library Conservation Plate Grant Program to restore "historic and one-of-a-kind audio...more

Where's Philanthropy's Fight Against Fake News Headed Next?
Foundation: Knight Foundation, Ford Foundation, Hewlett Foundation

For example, the News Integrity Initiative, a consortium funded by Facebook, the Craig Newmark Philanthropic Fund, Ford Foundation, Democracy Fund, the Knight Foundation, and others, recently...more

Hewlett Pledges $10M to Study Social Media and “Fake News”
Foundation: Hewlett Foundation

Kelly Born, who runs the Madison Initiative at Hewlett, which aims to “strengthen the values, norms and institutions of US democracy in a polarized era,” says that this is a philanthropic niche...more

Hewlett Commits $10 Million to Study 'Fake News' on Social Media
Foundation: Hewlett Foundation

The Hewlett Foundation will spend $10 million over the next two years to take on the problem of fake news. The grants will go to study how social-media platforms like Facebook and Twitter were...more

Hewlett Foundation announces $10 million commitment to support research on US democracy's ...
Foundation: Hewlett Foundation

"Digital disinformation is a problem that philanthropy is still getting its arms around, and tackling in different ways," explained Hewlett Program Officer Kelly Born, who led the...more

The platforms are the problem: The fight against digital disinformation gets $10 million from the ...
Foundation: Knight Foundation, Hewlett Foundation

Philanthropic foundations are interested in tackling the fake news problem — but where do they put their money? When the Hewlett Foundation — the philanthropy founded by the Hewlett family of...more

One Example of a Nonprofit Moving to Scale through a Collaborative Network
Foundation: Case Foundation, Hewlett Foundation

Last week, the Department of Education (DOE) announced a national partnership focused on OER with the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME), a California-based...more

Foundation Impact Investing Is Gaining Steam. But Can Proponents Answer These Four Questions?
Foundation: Hewlett Foundation

I've long been a fan of more impact investing by foundations. It's always struck me as nuts that these institutions use only their pinkies to advance their missions, keeping the vast majority of...more

Cybersecurity: Do Philanthropic Organizations Have Our Backs?
Foundation: Hewlett Foundation

Think tanks and academic institutions carry a heavy weight of responsibility for researching the implications of emerging technologies. Financially speaking, many of these groups count on the...more

Illustrative Grants from Hewlett Foundation



Center on Education Policy-$100,000

Northeast States Center for a Clean Air Future-$20,000

Transportation and Land Use Coalition-$32,000

International Center for Not-for-Profit Law-$300,000

Somos Mayfair-$28,010

Somos Mayfair-$28,010

Transportation and Land Use Coalition-$32,000

Reproductive Health Technologies Project-$32,000

Reproductive Health Technologies Project-$32,000

MBA-Nonprofit Connection-$55,000



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