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January / February 2007
Foundation’s Work to Put Educational Tools
on the Internet Sparks Epiphany
Teachers Without Borders hopes to use
an innovative website to help train teachers
in the developing world. Fred Mednick is a reminder that, in the end, philanthropy isn’t about money but about the transforming power of ideas to make the world a better place.
Mednick, a former teacher and high school principal in Washington State, is the founder of Teachers Without Borders, an international organization whose mission is to eliminate educational inequities, particularly in developing nations, by training teachers and sharing information with them.
What brought Mednick to The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation wasn’t pursuit of a grant but the content of its Web pages, where
he could learn more about sharing educational materials online.
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California to Lead the Nation in Reducing Greenhouse Gases
and Hewlett Lent a Hand
Governor Schwarzenegger announces
emissions limits.
When Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced an agreement this summer to impose the nation’s most sweeping controls on carbon dioxide emissions, the Hewlett Foundation was among the many institutions that could take satisfaction in helping to enact this historic legislation.
A key factor in the governor’s and the California legislature’s decision to pass this bill was scientific evidence on the potential impacts of climate change on the state that the Union of Concerned Scientists developed in part with support from the Foundation’s Environment Program.
“This is a terrific victory,” said Hal Harvey, Environment Program Director. “In the years before the bill, we supported a number of objective and broadly distributed studies on greenhouse gas emissions in California. Thanks to the work of the Union of Concerned Scientists and a lot of other people we all can breathe a little easier.” Read More...
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“Foundations”
Q and A with Jacob Harold - Program Officer, Philanthropy
Jacob Harold
“Foundations” is the first in an occasional series of informal question-and-answer sessions with employees of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to give them an opportunity to explain their work. Jacob Harold is the Foundation’s Philanthropy Program Officer. It is his job to improve the field of philanthropy itself by supporting research in the field, sharing news about effective techniques, and advising funders in and outside of the Foundation about how to evaluate their effectiveness. Harold has a B.A. from Duke University, where he designed a major in Ethics and Intellectual history, and earned an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Read More...
Summer Festivals Embrace Broad Range of Arts
Opening night of the ZeroOne San Jose Global Festival
at the San Jose City Hall Rotunda.
(photo by Everett Taasevigen for ZeroOne)
But there’s one feature both grants shared. In underwriting ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge and Music@Menlo's chamber music festival, the Foundation’s Performing Arts Program promoted one of its key goals: increasing the public’s access to, and participation in, the region’s arts. Read More...
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