Member Profile: William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Username: hewlett

Short organization name: Hewlett Foundation

Contact: JFong@hewlett.org

Web page: http://www.hewlett.org

Location: California, USA

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About this organization:

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has been making grants since 1967 to

support educational and cultural institutions and to help solve serious social and

environmental problems.

“Never stifle a generous impulse” was a favorite saying of entrepreneur William R.

Hewlett, who established the Hewlett Foundation with his wife, Flora Lamson Hewlett,

and their eldest son, Walter B. Hewlett. The Hewlett family’s personal generosity has

helped make the Foundation one of the nation’s largest grantmaking institutions, with

assets of approximately $8 billion.

The Foundation has grantmaking programs in education, the environment, global

development, performing arts, philanthropy, and population; and it also makes grants

to aid disadvantaged communities in the Bay Area. Since its inception, the Hewlett

Foundation has made grants of over $2.2 billion to thousands of organizations in the

San Francisco Bay Area, across the United States, and around the world.