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Population

Improving the lives of people around the world
through good family planning and reproductive health.

The Hewlett Foundation has had a long history of working to improve reproductive health. Since 1967, the Population Program has awarded more than $470 million to organizations around the world. The Program’s goal is to promote voluntary family planning and good reproductive health for all because of the benefits to individuals, societies, and the entire global community.

With sustainable rates of population growth, people in the developing world can move beyond a life of bare subsistence, women and girls will lead healthier and safer lives, and children who are wanted by their parents can mature into responsible, productive adults.

Recognized for our early and sustained commitment, the Foundation is now one of the only major funders providing core support to all aspects of Population: improving access to good quality family planning and reproductive health services, strengthening population science, and improving understanding of the impact of demography on poverty alleviation and economic growth. We made great progress in all of these areas last year.

For example, last year we ended the exploratory phase and began a full-fledged effort to greatly reduce unwanted pregnancies in the United States (thereby significantly reducing abortion rates), initiated research and training to assess the impact of population and family planning and reproductive health on economic development, tested out models to strengthen links between family planning and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS, and expanded access to underused reproductive health technologies. Our international program focuses on the areas of the world with the most extreme poverty, particularly sub-Saharan Africa.

In 2006, the Population Program made grants totaling $64,523,868.