The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has announced grants totaling more than $84 million to nearly two hundred organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the globe.
A total of $24.9 million in grants was awarded to forty-seven organizations through the foundation's environment program, including $500,000 to the Health Effects Institute for a project to conduct scientific research on the health effects of air pollution and share the results with policy makers and the public. Population grants totaling $21 million were awarded to nineteen organizations, including EngenderHealth, Pathfinder International, PATH, and DKT International, which received $5.5 million for its efforts to provide family planning and reproductive healthcare services in sub-Saharan Africa and other regions in the developing world. In the area of global development, the foundation awarded a total of $18.2 million to seventeen organizations, including $7.5 million to Pratham USA to expand a program that has improved the reading and math skills of ten million children in primary schools in India.
Other grants included $800,000 to the Bridgespan Group for general operating support; $750,000 to the State of the USA to create a set of measurements to assess the nation's progress on health care; $400,000 to the Alliance for Excellent Education to help develop policies and teacher training that brings deeper learning to more schools nationally; and $135,000 to the Ali Akbar College of Music to continue offering courses on traditional North Indian classical music as expressed by the late Ali Akbar Khan, considered the preeminent master of the form.
For a complete list of the foundation's second-quarter grants, visit the Hewlett Foundation Web site.
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