abstract: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 support educational and cultural institutions and to advance certain social and environmental issues.
The Sakai Educational Partners' Program (SEPP) extends this community source project to other academic institutions around the world, and is supported by the WilliamandFloraHewlettFoundationand SEPP member contributions.
Written by Paul Brest, of the WilliamandFloraHewlettFoundation, and his former colleague, Hal Harvey, now of the ClimateWorks Foundation, the book dispenses practical advice to aspiring philanthropists and provides examples of the ways they can influence the world from education to climate change to the arts.