The David and Lucile Packard Foundation https://www.packard.org/ A Just Society Where People & Planet Flourish Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:43:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://www.packard.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/cropped-packard-foundation-favicon-32x32.png The David and Lucile Packard Foundation https://www.packard.org/ 32 32 Birth Equity Across Three Counties: Common Themes From Community-Rooted Recommendations https://www.packard.org/insights/publication/birth-equity-across-three-counties/ Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:43:21 +0000 https://www.packard.org/?p=2704064 The Packard Foundation recently partnered with Shiree Teng at Teng & Smith to bring maternal health practitioners and parents together across Alameda, Fresno and Monterey counties in California. The collaborative process in each county helped map a more accessible, person-centered system of maternal care and identify specific funding priorities. Parents and practitioners in these three … Continued

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]]> Health Care That Comes to You: How a Home-Visiting Program Reaches Families https://www.packard.org/insights/grantee-story/home-visiting-program-families/ Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:21:21 +0000 https://www.packard.org/?p=2703118 The David and Lucile Packard Foundation supports healthy families through grants and mission investments in organizations like Nest Health, which brings contraceptive care, prenatal care, and family-centered primary care directly to children and families through their home-visiting program. In rural Arizona, 29-year-old mother Shana had just had her third baby.   Three months postpartum, she wanted … Continued

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]]> The Most Powerful Innovation Isn’t Technology—It’s Community https://www.packard.org/insights/perspective/the-most-powerful-innovation-isnt-technology-its-community/ Wed, 01 Jul 2026 19:58:09 +0000 https://www.packard.org/?p=2703670 I’ve been thinking a lot lately about courage—what it looks like when it’s quiet, when it’s not heroic, when it’s just a person deciding to show up. A school board meeting. A neighborhood that starts talking. A coalition that holds together when holding together is hard. As the United States turns 250 this July, I … Continued

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]]> In the Future, These Tiny Medical Robots Could Travel Through Your Body https://www.packard.org/insights/fellow-story/these-tiny-medical-robots-could-travel-through-your-body/ Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:06:28 +0000 https://www.packard.org/?p=2702813 Every day, our bodies protect us from potential threats. Our skin keeps out pathogens. Mucus traps bacteria. These barriers are essential, but they can also prevent medicine from reaching the places it needs to go. At the University of Colorado Boulder, 2022 Packard Fellow Wyatt Shields and his team are working to address this challenge with microscopic robots that … Continued

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]]> Supporting Election Integrity in 2026 https://www.packard.org/insights/grantee-story/supporting-election-integrity-in-2026/ Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:01:08 +0000 https://www.packard.org/?p=2703222 The Packard Foundation is supporting organizations that help election officials prepare for and respond to physical, cyber, and operational threats while strengthening the shared infrastructure needed for safe, fair, and trusted elections. In the United States, elections are the main way for citizens to influence their country’s path. They allow people and communities to voice their preferences and provide a critical form of accountability between elected officials and … Continued

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]]> Innovation In Times of Uncertainty—The Seeds We Need to Plant Now https://www.packard.org/insights/perspective/innovation-in-times-of-uncertainty-the-seeds-we-need-to-plant-now/ Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:41:25 +0000 https://www.packard.org/?p=2703589 In periods of political uncertainty, innovation remains one of the few strategies that gets stronger, not weaker. New care models, tools, products, and technologies can continue moving forward—and build durable pathways that can outlast a particular policy environment. The reproductive health field confronted this reality in 2022 when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the federal … Continued

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]]> Learning From the Organizations We Fund: Our 2025 Grantee Perception Report https://www.packard.org/insights/news/2025-grantee-perception-report/ Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:55:30 +0000 https://www.packard.org/?p=2703431 Listening to and learning from the organizations we fund is central to how we work. As part of that practice, we have invited our grantees for the last two decades to share their candid experiences of working with us through a Grantee Perception Survey administered by the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP). The 2025 survey marks the … Continued

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]]> The Ocean Is a National Asset. Treat It Like One. https://www.packard.org/insights/perspective/ocean-science-national-asset/ Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:09:18 +0000 https://www.packard.org/?p=2703088 There is a canyon off the California coast deeper than the Grand Canyon is tall. Most Americans have never heard of it.  Monterey Canyon begins just offshore and drops over two miles into darkness, past the reach of sunlight into a world of glowing life, hidden habitats, and natural systems that shape the chemistry of the planet … Continued

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]]> The Packard Foundation Welcomes Steve Bullock to Its Board of Trustees https://www.packard.org/insights/news/the-packard-foundation-welcomes-steve-bullock-to-its-board-of-trustees/ Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:34:41 +0000 https://www.packard.org/?p=2702975 The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Steve Bullock to its Board of Trustees.  Bullock is a lawyer, former Montana Attorney General, and two-term Governor of Montana. Throughout his career, he has been committed to protecting public interest, defending democratic institutions, and bridging political divides to advance practical solutions. … Continued

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]]> America at 250: A Time to Imagine, Not Just Reflect https://www.packard.org/insights/perspective/america-at-250-a-time-to-imagine-not-just-reflect/ Tue, 19 May 2026 16:05:30 +0000 https://www.packard.org/?p=2702850 As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of its founding, this is a moment to shift our perspective from nostalgia to imagination. At its best, the American project has always involved reinvention: expanding who belongs, whose needs matter, and what our citizens and institutions can make possible. That drive toward a better future is … Continued

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