William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
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| Founded | 1966 |
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| Founder | William Redington Hewlett and Flora Lamson Hewlett |
| Type | Private foundation |
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| Method | Endowment |
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Key people
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Larry Kramer, president |
| Endowment | $9 billion |
| Website | www |
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, commonly known as the Hewlett Foundation, is a private foundation, established by Hewlett-Packard cofounder William Redington Hewlett and his wife Flora Lamson Hewlett in 1966. The Hewlett Foundation awards grants to a variety of liberal and progressive causes.
With assets of approximately $9 billion, Hewlett is the fourth-wealthiest grant maker in the United States. 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.
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. 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.
In May 2010, the Hewlett Foundation announced its strategy of "Deeper Learning", a term that describes a set of student educational outcomes.
Hewlett and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation helped to develop the field of OpenCourseWare. Hewlett seeded the Creative Commons project with $1 million.
In 2008, the foundation awarded the Climate Works Foundation approximately $460,800,000. Hewlett funded restoration of the Bay Area Salt Ponds and conservation of the Great Bear Rainforest in Canada.
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.
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