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Hewlett Foundation
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The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation "has been making grants since 1966 to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world...
"The Foundation concentrates its resources on activities in education, environment, global development, performing arts, and population. In addition, the Foundation has programs that make grants to advance the field of philanthropy, and to support disadvantaged communities in the San Francisco Bay Area...
"Over the past few years, the Hewlett Foundation has been able to steadily increase the total amount of its gifts and grants. In 2002, the Foundation distributed a total of $195,221,736. The following year the figure was $254,320,000. By 2004 it had increased to $268,669,188 and last year that total had risen to $319,916,093. Click here for a complete list of Hewlett Foundation grants since 1999." [1]
- David Pierpont Gardner - President, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, 1993-99 [2]
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People
Executive Staff
Accessed September 2007: [3] (see others)
- Paul Brest - President
- Susan Bell - Vice President
- Laurance R. Hoagland, Jr. - Vice President and Chief Investment Officer
- Nancy Strausser - Assistant to the President and Corporate Secretary
- Joan Garretson - Assistant to the Vice President
- Linda Clayton - Executive Assistant and Program Assistant, Special Projects
- Ruth Maurice - Research Associate
Directors
Accessed September 2007: [4]
- Walter B. Hewlett - Chairman - Palo Alto, California
- Paul Brest - President - Stanford, California
- Byron Auguste - Los Angeles, California
- Steven Chu - Oakland, California
- Harvey V. Fineberg - Washington, DC
- James C. Gaither - Vice Chairman - Calistoga, California
- Eleanor H. Gimon - Greenwich, Connecticut
- Juliette Gimon - New York, New York
- Mary H. Jaffe - Portland, Oregon
- Richard C. Levin - New Haven, Connecticut
- Stephen C. Neal - Los Altos Hills, California
- Jean G. Stromberg - Washington, DC
Advisors to the Investment Committee
- T. Robert Burke - San Francisco, CA
- Spencer C. Fleischer - San Francisco, CA
- Mark A. Wolfson -Menlo Park, CA
Examples of groups that they fund
- Institute of World Affairs
- Americans for Informed Democracy
- Relief International
- International Alert
- Institute of the Americas
- Center for Public Integrity
- Pew Global Attitudes Project
- National Wildlife Federation
- National Commission on Energy Policy
- Program for Appropriate Technology in Health
- Search for Common Ground
- Fund for Peace
- International Peace Academy
- Consensus Building Institute
- The Democracy Collaborative
- Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law
- International Center for Transitional Justice
- International Center for Research on Women
- International Women's Health Coalition
- Society of Environmental Journalists
- National Security Archive
- State of the World Forum
- Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies
- FilmAid International
- Crimes of War Project
- Civil Rights Project
- Program on Nonviolent Sanctions and Cultural Survival
- Medecins Sans Frontieres
Contact
Resources and articles
Related Sourcewatch Articles
- Design to Win: Philanthropy's Role in the Fight Against Global Warming
- David de Ferranti
- Paula Garb
- GlobalGiving
- Melanie C. Greenberg
- Hal Harvey
- Cheikh Mbacke
- Thomas W. Merrick
- Anne Firth Murray
- Philanthropy and the No-Coal Movement
- Joe Spiedel
- United Nations Foundation
References
- ↑ About The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, accessed September 17, 2007.
- ↑ William Reddington Hewlett, Hewlett Foundation, accessed September 17, 2007.
- ↑ Foundation Staff, Hewlett Foundation, accessed September 17, 2007.
- ↑ Board Members, Hewlett Foundation, accessed September 17, 2007.
