The David and Lucile Packard Foundation launched a new initiative designed to improve agriculture, livelihoods, and conservation in Ethiopia, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. As the planet’s population approaches eight billion people, the growing demand for food is pushing agriculture into forests and other natural areas with devastating effects on the environment. … Continued
This research report from the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) explores the trade-offs between conserving forests and increasing food production in sub-Saharan Africa. Through jointly-funded research from the Packard Foundation and UK Aid, IIED illustrates existing and future competition and trade-offs between food production and natural forests, and the implications for land use … Continued
Since 2010, California has been planning and implementing a new grade level, transitional kindergarten (TK), with the goal of promoting school readiness and learning outcomes for students. TK is the first year of a two-year kindergarten experience for students born between September 2 and December 2. The American Institutes for Research (AIR) examined the effectiveness … Continued
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At the Packard Foundation, our goal is for children to be ready to succeed in school by age five with good health, self-confidence, social skills, and a love of learning. When we stop to think about what this takes, we recognize that there is a crucial common factor in each child’s success: the adults that … Continued
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The following can be found in the Preface of Our Shared Seas: A 2017 Overview of Ocean Threats and Conservation Funding and also appears on the Our Shared Seas Medium page as part of a series of perspective pieces with experts commenting on critical issues, trends, or where they believe funders, governments or NGOs would … Continued
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has commissioned California Environmental Associates to produce a global ocean report to be released in June 2017 at The Ocean Conference.
Jenna Wachtel, program director for early learning at New Teacher Center, has a vision for classrooms of young children across California: “Teachers are well supported. They come to work happy, curious, excited, and engaged. They are eager to look carefully at kids’ strengths, needs, and interests to plan for intentional instruction.” Because of it, “kids … Continued
In 2003, the government of India issued a national policy directive to provide adolescent health education in schools, building on the school-based AIDS education program that had been put in place in response to the HIV epidemic. It was aimed at building a generation of healthy and empowered young people by providing upper secondary school … Continued
A year ago, Gaby was struggling to find a safe, affordable, and accessible care provider that would prepare her son David for kindergarten. Today, David is thriving, and Gaby is feeling ever more confident in her ability to give her son the best start. David is a student at the new Educare California at Silicon … Continued
The IDEABOOK is a research-based framework to guide and broaden family engagement in libraries. The framework helps libraries move beyond thinking of family engagement as random, individual activities or programs, but rather as a system where library leadership, activities, and resources that are linked to goals. The framework represents a theory of change that begins with a set of … Continued
