The Hewlett Foundation works around the world to solve some of the most pressing social issues.
- Improving education, from California to Africa and India to the digital universe
- Working towards the elimination of poverty by improving transparency and accountability, improving education, and developing local knowledge and research
- Supporting the performing arts by ensuring opportunities for artists and audiences, ensuring that works of art are created, performed and preserved, and developing the next generation's artistic expressions through arts education
- Improving philanthropy
- Ensuring and protecting reproductive health and family planning in the United States and around the world, and training the next generation of researchers