Grant Details

The Hewlett Foundation has identified the following as priorities:

1. Education: The education program believes that public education builds both individual success and collective good, and to ensure that meaningful educational opportunities equip students to shape the world they live in as leaders in their communities and full participants in our democracy. They support education through two strategies (1) K-12 Teaching and Learning; and (2) open educational resources.
   1. The K-12 Teaching and Learning Strategy works with educators schools, and their communities to learn what it takes to turn schools into places that empower and equip students for a lifetime of learning, and to reach their full potential. The goals of this strategy are to: (a) improve teaching through professional development and innovative teaching practices; (b) transform education systems through new structures, systems, and processes for improving instruction; (c) amplifying the diverse voices of teachers, students, and parents in public education; and (d) exploring new conversations about teaching and learning.
   2. The goal of the Open Education Resource strategy is to strengthen every student's learning experiences through the effective use of open educational resources and practices. To do that, the Foundation prioritizes developing effective pedagogy and practice along with content, building capacity for education systems to implement OER, and supporting a field that is responsive to diverse educators and learners.
2. Effective Philanthropy: The Effective Philanthropy Program seeks to strengthen the capacity of Hewlett Foundation grantees and philanthropy in general, to achieve their goals and benefit the common good. There are three main strategies (1) Knowledge for better philanthropy; (2) Listening and Feedback; and (3) Organizational effectiveness.
3. Environment: The environment program makes grants to protect people and places threatened by a warming planet by addressing climate change globally, expanding clean energy, and conserving the North American West. There are two main strategies under this program (1) Climate and Energy; and (2) Western Conservation.
4. Gender Equity and Governance: The Gender Equity and Governance program seeks to foster inclusive societies so that all people, and especially women and girls, can fulfill their life aspirations. Focusing on Sub-Saharan Africa, Mexico, and the U.S. The Foundation makes grants to expand women's reproductive and economic choices; increase governments' responsiveness to the people they serve; and improve policymaking through the effective use of evidence.
5. Performing Arts Program: Makes grants to support meaningful artistic experiences for communities throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
6. U.S. Democracy Program: Makes grants to strengthen America's electoral and governing institutions and, in doing so, build public trust in our democracy.
7. Cyber Initiative seeks to cultivate a field that develops thoughtful, multidisciplinary solutions to complex cyber challenges and catalyzes better policy outcomes for the benefit of societies. The goals of this initiative are to (a) Build a set of core institutions with sufficient depth of expertise to deliver solutions that take competing values and trade-offs to pressing cyber policy challenges seriously; (b) Create a talent pipeline to produce experts with the necessary mix of technical and non-technical skills and knowledge to staff these and other institutions, including government and industry; and (c) Support the development of infrastructure to translate and disseminate the work of these institutions that can be understood and used by decision makers and the public.
8. Economy and Society Initiative: Seeks to replace neoliberalism with a new common sense” about how the economy works and the aims it should serve to improve the lives of people. The Foundation is looking to contribute to the development of ideas and debates that can make up a new intellectual paradigm better suited to address the biggest challenges of the 21st Century.
9. Racial Justice Initiative: Aims to identify and promote philanthropic practices within the foundation and our grantmaking that advance racial and economic justice.
10. Special Projects: Address special needs not covered by our programs and strategies to better respond to opportunities that advance our philanthropic values, incubate new ideas and strengthen our field.