Introduction Conservation Population Science Children, Families, and Communities Arts Organizational Effectiveness and Philanthropy Pueblo, Colorado Information for Applicants Board of Trustees and Officers
Introduction
During 2000, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation will focus its resources for a second year on the goals and objectives adopted for our programs in 1998. Our programs seek to balance practicality with vision, flexibility with precision, and ambition with a fundamental gratitude that we are capable of assisting our nonprofit partners in improving their select corners of the world.
Deeply held values ground us: integrity, respect for all people, a belief in individual leadership, an enduring commitment to effectiveness, and the capacity to think big.
In 2000, we will support an exciting array of nonprofit partners as they work to conserve our environment, address global population growth, solve complex problems through science, achieve the full potential of America's children, lift human experience through the arts, and strengthen the nonprofit sector. Our commitment continues to our local community and to the one where David Packard was born, Pueblo, Colorado.
When you read through this Program Overview, if your purposes seem to fit with our focus, please take the next step. Obtain up-to-date program information, and detailed guidelines where available, for your area of interest by visiting our Web site at www.packfound.org. Please visit our site often, as we update it regularly. You may also call the Foundation for more information at (650) 948-7658.
Conservation
To ensure a healthy future for all life on earth, the Conservation Program embraces an ecological approach that draws together the people, institutions, resources, and ideas that can best address our environmental crisis. We have identified pivotal sites, starting with some of the ecosystems around our own West Coast home, and are focusing our increased resources on strategies that hold most promise for maximum benefit.
As discussed below, we welcome letters of inquiry for work in California, Cascadia, Hawaii, the Western Pacific, Sustainable Fisheries, Western Land Use, and Population and Environment. We plan to accept letters of inquiry for Mexico beginning in mid-2000.
Program-related investments (PRIs) also further our objectives, particularly to conserve critical habitat and working landscapes. PRIs are initiated by Foundation staff and often provide bridge financing for land transactions that will attract permanent financing over time.
California
We launched the five-year Conserving California Landscapes Initiative in 1998 to conserve key elements of California's natural heritage. This initiative focuses on three areas: the Central Coast for its scenic and biological resources, the Central Valley because of the economic and open space value of its agricultural lands, and the Sierra Nevada, the source of more than 60% of the state's water. In these regions, we support land and water conservation transactions, planning, policy development, capacity-building, and restoration and stewardship.
Cascadia
In Cascadia, defined as the narrow band of temperate rainforest that stretches from Alaska to Northern California, we seek to protect key habitats. Our priorities include old-growth coastal rainforest and critical coastal watersheds in Alaska and British Columbia, wild Pacific salmon populations and their habitats, and ecologically important areas in Washington, Oregon, and Northern California.
Mexico
Detailed guidelines for Mexico are expected in September 2000. Until then our primary emphasis remains on preserving important marine and coastal ecosystems in the Gulf of California and Baja California.
Hawaii
Although Hawaii represents less than 1% of the total U.S. land area, it contains the greatest number of endemic and threatened species. With our partner the Hawai'i Community Foundation and its Natural Resources Conservation Program, we emphasize the protection of key marine and terrestrial habitats. The Packard Foundation directly funds land conservation transactions and restoration, control of invasive species, fisheries conservation, and public education. Through the Hawai'i Community Foundation, we support grassroots and community environmental groups with program and capacity-building grants.
Western Pacific
The Western Pacific holds the planet's greatest concentration of coastal marine biological diversity. Unfortunately, a combination of unsustainable and destructive fishing practices, industrial development, and growing coastal populations seriously threatens that biological diversity. The Western Pacific Program supports efforts to address these threats and to conserve seagrass and coral reef ecosystems in eastern Malaysia (Sabah and Sarawak), eastern Indonesia (East Kalimantan to West Papua), the Philippines, Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Fiji. Our priorities are building technical skills for effective conservation and resource management; supporting a network of site-specific marine sanctuaries; and stimulating applied research and analysis efforts that give practitioners, policymakers, and local community members useful information, for example, on new technologies, small business development, and policy reform.
Sustainable Fisheries
The Sustainable Fisheries Program promotes healthy, sustainable marine fisheries globally, with a primary focus on the Pacific Ocean. We support campaigns to strengthen capacity and political will for responsible fisheries management, incentives and rewards that build business leadership for conservation, and efforts to change seafood consumers' behavior to reflect conservation priorities. We also work to end harmful fishing subsidies while preserving programs that assist the transition to sustainable fisheries.
Energy
Our partner, the Energy Foundation, welcomes inquiries in 2000 for two energy initiatives it manages with us. The China Sustainable Energy Program supports China's policy efforts in energy conservation, electric utilities, renewable energy, transportation, and low-carbon development paths. The U.S. Clean Energy Program builds business-sector momentum for a low-carbon energy future.
Western Land Use
In the American West, we aim to conserve and enhance existing natural resources by promoting healthy urban development patterns. Our geographic focus is being planned, but will likely include California's Central Coast, Central Valley, and Sierra Nevada regions, and areas within the Pacific Northwest and Intermountain West. Our emphases are reforming local, state, and national land-use policy, particularly to allow compact/in-fill development; local and regional efforts to link sustainable land-use with open space and wildlands conservation; and public aware-ness and dissemination of best practices.
Conservation Science
We are currently exploring how best to provide the natural and social science that conservation needs to sustain the world's natural resources. We continue to support projects that engage U.S. scientists in environmental policy efforts and mission-oriented research. We are developing guidelines for additional mission-oriented conservation science and for building scientific and management capacity in important regions around the globe, particularly Mexico and the Western Pacific.
Population and Environment
This joint initiative of the Conservation and Population Programs seeks to reduce population pressures on areas with high biological diversity, beginning with Mexico and the Western Pacific. In 2000, we will support innovative efforts that integrate population and conservation, including community-based projects, communications efforts, and interdisciplinary leadership development.
Next Steps…
Please visit our Web site at www.packfound.org for up-to-date program information, detailed guidelines where avail-able, and contact information for the Hawai'i Community Foundation and the Energy Foundation. You may also contact the Conservation Program by phone at (650) 917-7210.
Population
David Packard recognized the role of the planet's growing population in the crises now facing families, the environment, and the stability of developing nations. He also understood that improved access to family planning and reproductive choice, at home and abroad, is pivotal in meeting these challenges. Over the years, the Population Program, with partners worldwide, has championed the right to bear children who will be wanted, cared for, and given the best chance for long and productive lives.
In 2000, the Population Program has stronger partnerships, a larger resource base, and greater focus. Our emphases are family planning and reproductive health services, youth, mobilization, reproductive rights, leadership development, and population and environment efforts in eight focus countries of the developing world (Ethiopia, India, Mexico, Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Sudan) and the United States.
Family Planning and Reproductive Health Services
Our goal is to increase access to reproductive choices, particularly for women in our focus countries, where few family planning programs exist. We will support culturally appropriate ways of delivering family planning methods, safe abortion services (where legal), postabortion care, and creation and dissemination of helpful information about reproductive options. We are especially interested in creatively managed, cost-effective programs with potential for large-scale replication. Reaching young adults is a priority.
Youth
Unprecedented numbers of young people are entering their reproductive years. Our goal is to guard the health of tomorrow's parents by providing information and services to promote delayed childbearing and safe sex. In this area, we work to increase private sector and nongovernmental organization (NGO) participation in sustainable service delivery; make methods that meet young people's needs more available; identify and disseminate effective adolescent reproductive health programs; improve NGO communications and advocacy efforts; and educate young people about reproductive health.
Mobilization
The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development signaled worldwide consensus on the need for donor and developing countries alike to invest resources in population and family planning programs. But few countries have fulfilled their pledges. Our goal is to increase commitment from public and private funding sources to family planning and reproductive health services for developing countries. We support efforts to increase knowledge about the importance of family planning internationally; improve media coverage of population issues; build NGO capacity to advocate for population funding; and inform and motivate opinion leaders, policymakers, and the public.
Reproductive Rights
Political and attitudinal barriers prevent access to accurate reproductive health information and services. In the United States, controversy over abortion rights has reduced the number of health facilities that offer abortion services. Worldwide, an estimated 78,000 women die annually from abortions performed under unsafe conditions; 99% of these deaths occur in developing countries, most often to low-income women desperate to avoid another birth.
Our domestic emphasis is on improving the public atmosphere, building broad public support, and developing effective policies to protect and promote reproductive rights. Internationally, we are emphasizing policy and programmatic research on safe abortion and youth reproductive health; dissemination of research results to inform public opinion and aid in policy reform; and education of opinion leaders, providers, policymakers, and the general public about the circumstances of unsafe abortion.
Leadership
We support training for future leaders in population and family planning. By providing support to selected U.S. and in-country institutions for training programs, we seek to increase the commitment, vision, skills, and knowledge of established, emerging, and youthful leaders in the population field in our eight focus countries.
Population and Environment
This joint initiative of the Population and Conservation Programs seeks to reduce population pressures on areas with high biological diversity, beginning with Mexico and the Western Pacific. In 2000, we will support innovative efforts that integrate population and conservation, including community-based projects, communications efforts, and interdisciplinary leadership development.
Next Steps…
Please visit our Web site at www.packfound.org for up-to-date program information and detailed guidelines where available. Or you may contact the Population Program by phone at (650) 917-7183.
Science
The mission of the Science Program is to enrich the human mind and improve the human condition. Evolving in response to scientific innovations and emerging questions, the Science Program has three goals: to support excellence in scientific research at universities and other institutions, to increase the full participation of underrepresented groups in the sciences and engineering, and to foster scientific research that improves quality of life and contributes to the development of a sustainable world.
The Packard Foundation supports a broad but focused portfolio of science and engineering research and education programs. We award approximately 85% of Science Program grants in response to invitations for proposals within the following areas: Ocean Science, Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering, Underrepresented Groups in Science, Interdisciplinary Science, and International Science. In 2000 we also intend to support innovative and unique projects that do not fit within the guidelines of these five areas.
Ocean Science
More than 70% of the earth's surface lies under water, yet we know relatively little about the vast world beneath the waves. Recognizing the ocean as an unmatched resource and as the earth's last great frontier, David Packard founded the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) in 1987 to bring scientists and engineers together to perform research and develop new technologies for undersea exploration. MBARI remains a high-priority project of the Packard Foundation and the primary focus of our Ocean Science effort.
Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering
University-based researchers, through their extensive scientific and technological advances, have transformed our understanding of the natural world and improved the human condition. The Fellowship Program encourages the nation's most promising young university professors to pursue their science and engineering research with few funding restrictions and limited paperwork requirements. Our hope is that these exceptional scientists and engineers will remain within academia to conduct basic research and to teach the next generation of science leaders.
Interdisciplinary Science
Interdisciplinary research that brings together diverse knowledge and techniques is of growing significance in both pure and applied science. Yet traditional funding sources focused on a single content area rarely include it. Our Interdisciplinary Science Program supports novel collaborations of researchers from diverse fields and their innovative research approaches to increasingly complex problems.
Underrepresented Groups in Science
Increasing the participation of underrepresented groups in science and engineering benefits not only those individuals and their communities but also the future of the scientific enterprise as a whole. Success in science and engineering depends on the opportunity to consider diverse perspectives, which requires the full participation of men and women of all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
The Science Program addresses this goal by supporting historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), tribal colleges, and students and graduates of these institutions Our HBCU Science and Graduate Scholars Programs support the science infrastructure at HBCUs and graduates of these institutions who choose to enter doctorate programs in the sciences, mathematics, and engineering. Two other programs reflect the Foundation's long-standing interest in helping American Indians obtain the education and experience they need to contribute to the well-being of their communities. Our Tribal Colleges Science Program supports science teaching at tribal colleges, while the Tribal Scholars Program provides financial support for tribal college graduates to continue their undergraduate studies at a four-year college or university.
International Science
International collaborations of scientists and engineers from advanced and developing countries are increasingly important in addressing complex problems around the globe, particularly those problems that cross borders and boundaries. Our grants focus on capacity-building for scientific research and education in developing countries.
Other Opportunities
Through this small "special opportunity" fund, the Foundation supports a limited number of innovative proposals in broad areas of science and engineering that are outside the formal guidelines, but relate to the overall mission and goals of the Science Program. Letters of inquiry may be sent at any time.
Next Steps…
Please visit our Web site at www.packfound.org for up-to-date program information, detailed guidelines where available, the names of our scientific advisors, and a list of past awards. Or you may contact the Science Program by phone at (650) 948-7658.
Children, Families, and Communities
The Children, Families, and Communities (CFC) Program seeks to promote the health, development, and economic security of vulnerable children, to protect them from violence, and to strengthen the capacity of families, communities, and the nation to care for all of America's children.
Recognizing the critical connections among children, families, and communities, we work through partnerships, collaborations, and coalitions to benefit children. Local experience informs national policy and practice agendas, and state and national perspectives advance local services. Our journal, The Future of Children, translates research for private and public leaders whose decisions affect the course of young lives.
In 2000, we continue to pursue selected strategies toward increasing access to quality health care, promoting the development of children and young people, bolstering the economic security of families, reducing violence in homes and communities, strengthening local communities, and building the nation's commitment to children. CFC awards grants throughout the United States, although direct service programs are funded only in our local four-county area (San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Monterey Counties).
Improve Child Health
Our strategy for promoting the health of children is to ensure their access to high-quality health care through public or private health insurance. We seek to help implement and improve subsidized health insurance programs, to develop sustainable outreach and enrollment systems, and to assure children continuous health insurance coverage. In the local area only, we support work to enroll children in subsidized insurance programs.
Improve Economic Security
Family economic security benefits children, so policies and programs that help families to escape poverty are of priority to us. Nationally, we seek to disseminate the results of evaluation research on welfare reform to policymakers, practitioners, and advocates, with a special focus on how children are faring. Our local strategy for helping low-income families achieve economic security builds on the work of our existing economic security grantees. Our support of the emergency food and shelter safety net for local families continues in 2000.
Promote Child and Youth Development
We support policy and program initiatives that benefit the family, early care and education programs, and youth development programs. In 2000, our focus for children from birth to age three is support for the implementation of California's Proposition 10, plus a few national efforts to document innovative policies and practices. We encourage national and local proposals to build the public will and technical expertise to create new financing for the nation's child care system. We support efforts of local organizations to access capital for child care facility expansion, to tap public funds to respond to the interests and needs of older youths, and to strengthen their youth programs.
Break the Cycle of Violence
To protect children from the harm of violence in their homes and communities, we support programs that improve outcomes for children in the child protection system and that reduce firearm injuries to children. Our work in child protection focuses on implementing the 1997 Adoption and Safe Families Act, sharing best practices to recruit and support foster care and adoptive families, and reducing children's exposure to domestic violence. To decrease harm from firearms, we support projects in our local area to prevent access to firearms and firearm injury, and we invite proposals from selected national organizations to link prevention experts and advocates, conduct and disseminate policy-relevant research, and build capacity to monitor children's exposure to firearms.
Build Local Commitments to Children
The Packard Foundation's tradition of responsiveness to community needs in our local four-county area continues. We consider proposals to initiate or expand programs that complement the goals of core CFC programs, or that strengthen the capacity of multi-service agencies serving children and families. Detailed guidelines in this area are slated for release in mid-2000.
Strengthen the National Commitment to Children
To achieve long-term gains for children, their well-being and that of their families must be a priority in public decision making. We fund invited proposals to heighten the visibility and effectiveness of child advocacy groups and to engage new stakeholders. We also seek to mobilize attention to children through our journal, The Future of Children, and make grants to communicate knowledge about children to policymakers and practitioners.
Next Step…
Please visit our Web site at www.packfound.org for up-to-date program information and detailed guidelines where available. Or you may contact the Children, Families, and Communities program by phone at (650) 948-7658.
Arts
The Packard Foundation views the arts as one of life's essentials-reflecting and distilling human experience, bringing joy, meaning, and vibrancy to our communities, making deeper connections. Not ends in themselves, the arts thrive through unlikely partnerships of stalwarts and start-ups, the conservatory-bred and the community-based. Our broad goals are to ensure a vibrant local network of nonprofit arts institutions and to see that children are well educated in the arts.
In 2000, our priority is to keep the conversation open, leveraging and advancing the notion of arts and community. We will provide grants for arts institutions, arts education, cultural facilities, and arts support organizations. We are focusing on all arts, concerned most importantly with whether a program advances the cultural sector. Although the preponderance of our grantees operate within the four counties surrounding our West Coast home (San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Monterey), we also fund a number of national innovations that cross boundaries, forge stronger connections, and serve as models for local arts.
Institutional Support
Our interest continues in promoting organizational strength and resilience among local arts organizations of high artistic quality. We especially want to help local institutions find new ways to engage the community.
Arts Education
We target organizations whose central mission is to teach young people the content and production of the arts, focusing on theater, music, and the visual arts. We are committed to seeing arts programs reinstated in the public schools and will build on discoveries from our comprehensive three-year pilot program in Santa Cruz County. We also are exploring an area of new focus, Arts and Youth. Here youth, arts, and community development intersect through after-school arts programs that bring hope, motivation, and skills to underserved young people.
Cultural Facilities
We focus our support for construction, renovation, or maintenance on local facilities that provide the artistic and cultural framework for their communities. Grantmaking strategies include leveraging additional support for public/private partnerships.
Support Organizations
The Arts Program makes grants to help strengthen those organizations that provide leadership on behalf of the arts community at large, to increase the overall level of charitable giving to the arts, and to support local cultural planning.
Next Steps…
Please visit our Web site at www.packfound.org for up-to-date program information and detailed guidelines where available. Or you may contact the Arts Program by phone at (650) 948-7658.
Organizational Effectiveness and Philanthropy
Capable leaders, sound management, and strong governance all help nonprofit organizations to succeed. Organizational effectiveness assumes clarity of vision, alignment of plans and actions, and continuous accumulation of skills, experience, wisdom, and perspective.
Since 1983, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation has supported grantees' efforts to strengthen their capabilities, move steadily toward their goals, and adapt to change. In 2000, with the merger of two programs to create the Organizational Effectiveness and Philanthropy (OE/P) Program, we bring new focus to high performance in the nonprofit sector and the field of philanthropy.
Our goals are to enhance the effectiveness of Packard Foundation grantees, build the field of nonprofit management, promote the development and effectiveness of philanthropy, and strengthen the nonprofit sector overall.
Enhancing Effectiveness of Grantees
The OE/P Program makes grants to current and recent Packard Foundation grantees for well-defined projects to develop or refine skills, strategies, organizational systems, and/or structures. Projects eligible for support range from planning to staff development and from organizational assessment to improving management information systems. We place a special emphasis on assisting Foundation grantees with leadership transitions.
Building the Field of Nonprofit Management
To develop and sustain a dynamic infrastructure in the field of nonprofit management, we fund a small number of the highest quality providers of relevant education, training, consulting, support services, and applied research. Each year we also support a small number of promising experiments. OE/P seeks to encourage research and development in the field of nonprofit management that will yield new tools, theories, and approaches to help nonprofits address evolving management challenges.
Promoting Philanthropy
The Packard Foundation has a strong commitment to expanding private philanthropy and encouraging the development of new donors. We support a wide range of programs, projects, and organizations to improve the practice and foster innovation in the philanthropic field. We also support selected affinity groups and organizations that contribute to the effectiveness of organized philanthropy.
Strengthening the Nonprofit Sector
The OE/P Program makes grants to organizations that study, serve, and represent the nonprofit sector and that promote broader understanding and support for the sector overall.
Next Steps…
Please visit our Web site at www.packfound.org for up-to-date program information and detailed guidelines where available. Or you may contact the Organizational Effectiveness and Philanthropy Program by phone at (650) 948-7658.
Pueblo, Colorado
David Packard was born in Pueblo, Colorado, and this city's well-being is of special concern to the Foundation. Since establishing its grantmaking program for Pueblo in 1976, the Foundation has provided grants to nonprofit organizations that serve the residents of this city and county. Of particular interest are programs and projects to improve education and community health and to support the arts and the city's youths.
An advisory board made up of Pueblo residents helps to prioritize Pueblo's needs, evaluate all requests, and make recommendations for funding to the Packard Foundation's Board of Trustees. We make general grants to nonprofit organizations that operate in the city and county of Pueblo and directly serve residents. In addition, nonprofit organizations in the city and county of Pueblo may apply for larger capital project support, including equipment purchases and building construction, renovation, or expansion.
Next Steps…
Please visit our Web site for up-to-date program information, detailed guidelines, application forms, and a listing of grants. For the Pueblo Program only, you may also contact
Pam King, Secretary
Pueblo Advisory Board P. O. Box 1664-0664
Pueblo, Colorado 81002
Phone: (719) 543-2376
Fax: (719) 545-4126
Information for Applicants
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is a private foundation incorporated under California law. We accept grant proposals only from tax-exempt, charitable organizations. We do not accept proposals that benefit specific individuals or that serve religious purposes.
Preparing a Proposal
Specific guidelines for Foundation grantmaking programs are available on our Web site at www.packfound.org or by contacting the Foundation. Before preparing any proposal, please carefully review the guidelines and geographic limitations for your area of interest.
Proposal Review Process
The Foundation makes every effort to notify an applicant as soon as we receive a proposal. Program staff members review each proposal to determine whether it falls within the Foundations areas of interest and fits funding priorities. When a proposal matches our criteria, staff members generally meet with the applicant prior to making recommendations to the Board. Not all grant requests are considered in the quarter following their submission; requests may be carried over to a future quarter.
Other Resources
Additional information about the Packard Foundation, including recent annual reports, program guidelines, specific program brochures, and a listing of recent awards, is available on the Web at www.packfound.org. You may also contact the Foundation by phone at (650) 948-7658.
Board of Trustees and Officers
Board of Trustees
Nancy Packard Burnett
Robin Chandler Duke
Dean O. Morton
Franklin M. Orr, Jr.
Susan Packard Orr
Julie E. Packard
Lew Platt
William K. Reilly
Richard T. Schlosberg III
Robert Stephens
Colburn S. Wilbur
Trustees Emeriti
Robert J. Glaser, M.D.
Frank Roberts
Edwin E. van Bronkhorst
Officers
Susan Packard Orr
Chairman
Nancy Packard Burnett
Vice Chairman
Julie E. Packard
Vice Chairman
Richard T. Schlosberg III
President
George Vera
Chief Financial Officer
Barbara Wright
General Counsel and Secretary
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