In 2025, our grantmaking reached leaders and organizations across the United States and around the world working on some of our most complex and urgent challenges.
🔗 Read our full 2025 Impact Report: https://www.packard.org/2025-impact-report/
We are thrilled to welcome Steve Bullock to our Board of Trustees!
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What started as a bold idea to address rising birth control costs in the early 2000s quickly expanded into a new kind of pharmaceutical company—one that prioritizes the needs of health clinics and their patients.
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As the U.S. approaches it's 250th Anniversary, Ruth Levine reflects on why this moment calls for us to shift our perspective from nostalgia to imagination — and how philanthropy can help create the conditions for collaboration, experimentation, and long-term thinking.
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When birth control prices became inaccessible, a group of leaders founded their own new kind of pharma company — that prioritized the needs of public health clinics and their patients.
➡️ https://www.packard.org/insights/grantee-story/how-one-bold-idea-for-birth-control-became-a-national-lifeline/
Roots Community Health and BANANAS are combining health care and child care services into a single, coordinated home-visiting program for families.
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In her latest perspective, our VP of Environment and Science, J.R. Littlejohn, makes the case for treating ocean science, stewardship, and long-term investment as essential infrastructure.
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This Free the Pill Day, we’re celebrating Opill—the first over-the-counter birth control pill in the U.S— and what it represents for expanding access to reproductive health care.
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We are pleased to announce the recipients of the Packard Fellows Emergency Relief Fund, a $3.3M rapid-response initiative created to preserve the postdoctoral workforce by providing short-term support for Fellows that faced federal funding disruptions or cancellations.
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From preventing homelessness in California, to a global partnership working to stop tropical deforestation, and more — our grantees show us that even when the path is unclear, people continue to innovate, collaborate, and find solutions to our most complex challenges.
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The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Steve Bullock to its Board of Trustees.
The ocean is a national asset. The US must treat ocean science investment as essential infrastructure, not a discretionary cost.
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The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of the Packard Fellows Emergency Relief Fund, a $3.3 million rapid-response initiative created to support Packard Fellows affected by recent shifts in federal research funding. Administered by the Science Philanthropy Alliance, the fund was created to preserve the postdoctoral workforce by providing short-term … Continued
The weeks before a baby arrives can be filled with one long checklist of questions for mothers and caregivers. What doctors do I need to meet with? When do those appointments need to be scheduled? How do I find child care once the baby arrives? And how will I afford it? What will I do if my housing becomes an issue? Or if my baby … Continued
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, leaders across local Planned Parenthood health clinics saw a crisis coming and needed a solution if they were to continue providing birth control to their patients. Contraceptives were getting more expensive every year, and they saw a future when Planned Parenthood clinics wouldn’t be able to afford to purchase them at a reasonable cost so they could provide them … Continued
