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Every woman and girl—no matter where she lives in the world—has the right to live with dignity and have a voice in decisions that affect her body and her life.
Author: visceral_dev_Admin
Author: visceral_dev_Admin
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Last month, FisheryProgress launched its Human Rights and Social Responsibility Policy. The policy is a meaningful starting point for helping fishery improvement projects take steps to improve their social performance, and for providing seafood buyers with essential information to understand human rights risks in their supply chains. A fishery improvement project (FIP) brings together all … Continued
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Over the past year, the world has faced incredible health and economic challenges, fueled by long-seeded inequities that left those who already had the least suffering the most. On World Ocean Day 2020, the Packard Foundation reflected on what was happening and our own role in addressing inequities. We challenged ourselves—and invited our colleagues and partners—to … Continued
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Last summer, following the groundswell of protests against racism and after important conversations among staff and the Board of Trustees about the urgency to act, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation committed to examining how we could contribute our resources and energy toward justice and equity for Black people and people of color. I joined the Foundation in … Continued
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In 2014, the Packard Foundation launched Starting Smart and Strong, a ten-year place-based early learning initiative in Oakland, Fresno, and East San Jose, California. The goal of the initiative is to significantly improve the quality of adult‐child interactions across all settings to ensure children grow up confident, ready to learn, and ready for kindergarten.This is … Continued
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Jeff Sunshine
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In 2014, the Packard Foundation launched Starting Smart and Strong, a ten-year place-based early learning initiative in Oakland, Fresno, and East San Jose, California. The goal of the initiative is to significantly improve the quality of adult‐child interactions across all settings to ensure children grow up confident, ready to learn, and ready for kindergarten. Now … Continued
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In 2018 as part of its commitment to organizational strengthening, the Packard Foundation provided funding to explore how advocacy organizations working on a variety of issues could grow in their efforts to meaningfully engage with the people their work impacts. The goals were to support these organizations in exploring ways to engage the people and … Continued
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The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is pleased to announce that Anne Gates has joined its Board of Trustees. For over 35 years, Gates has been a leader in the global consumer products business and is currently active on several boards. She will be joining the Foundation’s 15-member Board, and will serve as a member … Continued
Author: visceral_dev_Admin
Every woman and girl—no matter where she lives in the world—has the right to live with dignity and have a voice in decisions that affect her body and her life.
Author: visceral_dev_Admin
2 min read
We believe every individual should be able to live with dignity and have autonomy over their body, including their decisions about if, when and how to create and sustain a family. Systemic racism – both past and present – has deeply impacted Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC) from accessing quality sexual and reproductive … Continued