Monte Matheson, an angler and hunter from Port Orford, Oregon, is working with Campaign for America’s Wilderness to protect areas like the Copper-Salmon proposed wilderness. Photo by Barbara I. Bond, courtesy of the Campaign for America's Wilderness.
Finding Common Ground
in the Wilderness
Mike Beagle is nobody’s idea of a tree hugger. He grew up hunting and fishing around rural Eagle Point, Oregon, and was a star defensive back for his high school football team for four years running before he joined the U.S. Army and served as a field artillery officer with the 9th Infantry Division.
But Beagle’s love of the land belies stereotypes and led him, when he returned home in 1989, to found Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, an all-volunteer organization with members in forty states whose goal is to “keep public lands healthy and accessible.” It’s a mission that increasingly has led Beagle and many like him across the United States to realize that the things he values give him common cause with people across an array of political labels. Read more...
Zen Williams performs for his Teddy Bears class at Destiny Arts Center. The center uses movement to teach self-esteem and instill values. Photo by Hali McGrath.
Moving Through Danger
to Self-Confidence
Five-year-old Avery Fasfirinn and his mother push open the battered metal door into the former warehouse that houses the Destiny Arts Center in North Oakland, and, instantly radiant with excitement, Avery rushes down the hallway to his martial arts class, Teddy Bear level.
He threads his way quickly through a tumultuous, back-and-forth flow of kids and parents and teachers getting settled for a day of classes. Destiny’s Youth Performance Company is also in the mix, connecting to leave for a show. This particular Saturday, the hallway traffic is heavier still: Destiny has organized a community meeting to talk about a sudden run of drive-by shootings in the neighborhood. Read more...
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“Foundations” is an occasional series of informal question-and-answer sessions with employees and others affiliated with The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to give them an opportunity to explain their work.
Nicole Gray, an officer with the Foundation’s Population Program, manages a broad range of grants in the United States and internationally that pertain to reproductive health. Here she discusses her work to support the integration of family planning and reproductive health services into HIV/AIDS programs in sub-Saharan Africa.
Gray joined the Foundation in 2002 after working in the Population Program at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. She has B.A. and M.A. degrees in African Studies from Yale University and M.P.H. and M.P.P. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Global Engagement
Navigating a course as the world’s only super power demands that the United States employ a broad array of tools if it is to garner the respect and cooperation of other nations. Exploring the use of these tools is the work to which the nonpartisan Center for U.S. Global Engagement, a Hewlett grantee, has dedicated itself.
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The Hewlett Foundation Welcomes New Employees
The Foundation welcomes new employees Kevin Bohrer and Jerry Giles.
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