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Website. www .hewlett .org. 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. [3] The Hewlett Foundation awards grants to a variety of liberal and progressive causes.
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation United States: Menlo Park, California: $8.7 billion 1967 24 Li Ka Shing Foundation Hong Kong: Hong Kong: $8.3 billion HK$64.4 billion 1980 25 The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust United States: New York City: $8.3 billion 1999 26 W. K. Kellogg Foundation Trust United States
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Website. www .guidestar .org. Formerly called. Philanthropic Research, Inc., GuideStar, Foundation Center. Candid is an information service specializing in reporting on U.S. nonprofit companies. [1] [2] In 2016, its database provided information on 2.5 million organizations. [3] It is the product of the February 2019 merger of GuideStar with ...
In 2008, GiveWell received funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation's Nonprofit Marketplace Initiative. The Hewlett Foundation continued to be a major funder of GiveWell until March 2014, when the Hewlett Foundation announced that it was ending the Nonprofit Marketplace Initiative based on a 2010 study it commissioned that found ...
In August 2014, after the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation announced the end of its Nonprofit Marketplace Initiative (one of GiveWell's major early funders), Karnofsky wrote a post on the GiveWell blog offering his thoughts on the program, informed by his experience as a recipient of its largesse.