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   7/25/2008
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March 2007
 
Deal Struck to Preserve Canadian Rainforest
 

 
Twenty-four million acres will be protected as part of the
conservation effort taking place in Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest.
Photo by WCWC Photo File

In a land of thousand-year-old cedar trees and wolf packs that have never gazed upon humans, the Tsimshian people of British Columbia’s north coast tell the story of the spirit bear, a rare white bear that roams among its more common black brethren.

In the Tsimshian’s telling, Raven, the creator, transformed every tenth black bear to white as a reminder of the region’s pristine state and the importance of its preservation.

Now vast swaths of what remains of that original state, long at risk from clear-cut logging and development, have come a crucial step closer to preservation with the Canadian federal government’s January decision to contribute $30 million CAD to protect what is known as the Great Bear Rainforest.  Read more...

Making a Business of Good Reproductive Health  
 

Population Services International is
reaching out to Zambian families, such
as this woman and her child.
Photo courtesy of PSI
Throughout the ten years that Chastain Fitzgerald traveled in Africa, no matter how remote the village, there was one constant. If she asked enough people, she could find the villager who sold some combination of goods—matches, chewing gum, flour— and always, always, Coca-Cola.

The fact that the Coca-Cola Company gets its product to these far-flung customers only excites Fitzgerald, the Director of New Business at Population Services International. “If Coke can get there, condoms can get there,” she says. “When there is already commercial distribution in place, we’re going to work with that.”

If you ask Fitzgerald and her fellow workers at Population Services International, the health care services field can benefit from an entrepreneurial approach. Read more...

 
 
 “Foundations”
Q and A with Kristi Kimball - Program Officer, Education
 
 
Kristi Kimball
"Foundations” is an occasional series of informal question and answers sessions with employees of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to let them explain their work. Kristi Kimball is a program officer who manages a wide range of grants designed to improve educational policy in California. Currently, the Foundation, with several partners (the Gates, Irvine and Stuart Foundations), has co-funded $3 million in grants -- $1 million of it from the Hewlett Foundation -- for Stanford University researchers to conduct an 18-month study of how California funds its K-12 schools. The research is the first to examine the funding system in its entirety in hopes of recommending reforms to dramatically improve the education of the state’s 6 million public school students. 

Before joining the Hewlett Foundation, Kimball served in the U.S. Department of Education during the Clinton Administration, in the Education Policy Center at the Urban Institute, and in the Education Office of the  Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. She holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College, and an M.P.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.  Read more...
 


   The grand opening of the East Palo Alto YMCA draws a crowd
   to its front doors. A grant from the Hewlett Foundation is 
   helping the new YMCA.

 

 

 

 

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