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The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, commonly known as the Hewlett Foundation, is a private foundation, established by Hewlett-Packard cofounder William Redington Hewlett and his wife Flora Lamson Hewlett in 1966. The Hewlett Foundation awards grants to a variety of liberal and progressive causes.
Flora Lamson was born in 1914 and raised in Berkeley, California, and she summered in the Sierra Nevada. [1] [2] [3] It was then that she met and became friends with Louise Hewlett, her future husband's sister, as both families had cabins in the Sierra. [3] She received a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from the University of California ...
Starting in the 1960s Hewlett committed much of his time and wealth towards numerous philanthropic causes. In 1966, William Hewlett and his wife Flora founded the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, which became one of the largest private foundations in the United States. Aside from the foundation Hewlett gave millions of dollars to ...
University of Chicago ( JD) Larry D. Kramer (born June 23, 1958) is an American legal scholar who is the president and vice chancellor of the London School of Economics, commencing in April 2024. Kramer was the president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation from 2012 through 2023. [1] Prior to that role, he was the dean of Stanford Law ...
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation was created in 1966, and his family has continued on his philanthropic legacy. ... The Hewlett Foundation’s Education Program provides grants to help ...
The library was named for Flora Lamson Hewlett, wife of Hewlett-Packard founder William Hewlett, thanks to support for the project from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Events. To kick off Theological Libraries Month the Hewlett Library holds a booksale on the feast day of Saint Jerome (September 30), the patron saint of libraries.
In the summer of 1997, CAI moved from Stanford University to Duke University and began a three-year affiliation with the Kenan Ethics Program. With continued support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, in 1998 CAI launched a project to identify and describe the “fundamental values of academic integrity” and their implications for ...
Often cited is the 2007 report to the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation which defined OER as "teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course ...