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The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation is a private foundation, established by Hewlett-Packard cofounder William Redington Hewlett and his wife Flora Lamson Hewlett in 1966.〔(William and Flora Hewlett and the Hewlett Foundation ) (The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation website)〕 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. ==Programs and grants== ;Education 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.〔(Hewlett Foundation gives unprecedented gift ) (The Stanford Daily, May 3, 2001)〕 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.〔(Hewlett Foundation Gives $113-Million to U. of California's Berkeley Campus ) (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, September 10, 2007)〕 In May 2010, the Hewlett Foundation announced its strategy of Deeper Learning.〔(A Twenty-First Century Education: Hewlett Foundation Adopts "Deeper Learning" Strategy ) (Hewlett Foundation website, May 2010)〕 Deeper Learning involves mastering core academic content, critical thinking and problem solving, effective communication, working in collaboration, and learning how to monitor and direct one’s own learning.〔(Education_Strategic_Plan_2010 ) (Education Strategic Plan, October 2010)〕 Hewlett and the Mellon Foundation helped to develop the field of OpenCourseWare.〔(Mellon, Hewlett Foundations grant $11M to launch free MIT course materials on web ) (MITnews, June 18, 2001)〕 Hewlett seeded the Creative Commons project with $1,000,000.〔(Lawrence Lessig on the History of Creative Commons ) (A video of Lessig's speech at the iCommons Summit, July 30, 2008, in Sapporo, Japan.)〕 ;Climate In 2008, the foundation awarded the Climate Works Foundation approximately $460,800,000.〔() (Top 50 International Grants Awarded by Foundations for Climate Change)〕 Hewlett funded restoration of the Bay Area Salt Ponds〔(Historic Agreement Reached to Purchase San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds )〕 and conservation of the Great Bear Rainforest in Canada.〔(Conservation Groups Announce $96 Million Fund to Protect Great Bear Rainforest )〕 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. ;Journalism Hewlett collaborated with the Center for Investigative Reporting to create California Watch, an investigative reporting project focused on California news.〔(Building a new model for investigative reporting ) (California Watch. Retrieved 2012-05-18)〕 ;Reproductive health The Hewlett Foundation make grants in developing countries and in the United States to provide family planning and reproductive health services. The Hewlett Foundation has given major financial support to Planned Parenthood and the International Planned Parenthood Federation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William and Flora Hewlett Foundation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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