We work with people and communities to create enduring solutions for just societies and a healthy, resilient natural world. Learn more about our work at packard.org/approach.
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Philanthropic Fundraising Services
Los Altos, CA 46,754 followers
We work with people & communities to create enduring solutions for just societies & a healthy, resilient natural world.
About us
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is a family foundation guided by the enduring business philosophy and personal values of Lucile and David, who helped found one of the world's leading technology companies. Building on the legacy of our founders, we believe that talented and committed people, with appropriate resources and support, can drive meaningful innovation and create lasting change. We work with people and communities to create enduring solutions for just societies and a healthy, resilient natural world. Learn more at www.packard.org.
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External link for The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
- Industry
- Philanthropic Fundraising Services
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Los Altos, CA
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1964
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343 Second Street
Los Altos, CA 94022, US
Employees at The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
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Congratulations to 1994 Packard Fellow David Baker for being awarded this years Nobel Prize in Chemistry! David has succeeded with the almost impossible feat of building entirely new kinds of proteins. Together with Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper, they cracked the code for proteins’ amazing structures. #PackardFellows Learn more ⬇️
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.” The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 is about proteins, life’s ingenious chemical tools. David Baker has succeeded with the almost impossible feat of building entirely new kinds of proteins. Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have developed an AI model to solve a 50-year-old problem: predicting proteins’ complex structures. These discoveries hold enormous potential. The diversity of life testifies to proteins’ amazing capacity as chemical tools. They control and drive all the chemical reactions that together are the basis of life. Proteins also function as hormones, signal substances, antibodies and the building blocks of different tissues. Proteins generally consist of 20 different amino acids, which can be described as life’s building blocks. In 2003, David Baker succeeded in using these blocks to design a new protein that was unlike any other protein. Since then, his research group has produced one imaginative protein creation after another, including proteins that can be used as pharmaceuticals, vaccines, nanomaterials and tiny sensors. The second discovery concerns the prediction of protein structures. In proteins, amino acids are linked together in long strings that fold up to make a three-dimensional structure, which is decisive for the protein’s function. Since the 1970s, researchers had tried to predict protein structures from amino acid sequences, but this was notoriously difficult. However, four years ago, there was a stunning breakthrough. In 2020, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper presented an AI model called AlphaFold2. With its help, they have been able to predict the structure of virtually all the 200 million proteins that researchers have identified. Since their breakthrough, AlphaFold2 has been used by more than two million people from 190 countries. Among a myriad of scientific applications, researchers can now better understand antibiotic resistance and create images of enzymes that can decompose plastic. Life could not exist without proteins. That we can now predict protein structures and design our own proteins confers the greatest benefit to humankind. Learn more Press release: https://bit.ly/3TM8oVs Popular information: https://bit.ly/3XYHZGp Advanced information: https://bit.ly/4ewMBta
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Check out MBARI's new research that reveals the dynamic processes that sculpt the Arctic seafloor! ⬇️
New MBARI research reveals the dynamic processes that sculpt the Arctic seafloor. MBARI researchers—working alongside a team of international collaborators from the Korea Polar Research Institute, the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, the Geological Survey of Canada, and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory—have discovered large underwater ice formations at the edge of the Canadian Beaufort Sea, located in a remote region of the Arctic. The recently discovered layers of ice are not the same as the ancient permafrost formed during the last ice age, but rather were created under present-day conditions. This ice is produced when deeper layers of ancient submarine permafrost melt, creating brackish groundwater that rises and refreezes as it approaches the colder seafloor. This discovery reveals an unanticipated mechanism for the ongoing formation of submarine permafrost ice. The complex morphology of the seafloor in this region of the Arctic tells a story that involves both the melting of ancient permafrost that was submerged beneath the sea long ago and the disfiguration of the modern seafloor that occurs when released water refreezes. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gTT5SHs8
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🎉 Join us in congratulating Heather Ludemann in her new role as Ocean Initiative, Americas Director, and Sarah Hogan in her new role as Ocean Initiative, Asia Director! “I am thrilled to witness Sarah and Heather’s continued leadership as they step into their new roles, helping to drive forward the Foundation’s work to protect and restore ocean ecosystems for people and nature, now and in the future.” - Meg Caldwell, Vice President for Environment and Science Read the full announcement ⬇️ https://ow.ly/uZFH50TEuo9
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2019 #PackardFellow Kirstin Hagelskjær Petersen is looking to nature to find inspiration for her robot collective! 🔎 🤖
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Check out this awesome opportunity with CA For The Arts! ⬇️
📣The GAAP Fellowship application is now open. GAAP is a cohort-based fellowship program for artist advocates, 18 years or older, who live or work in Oakland or San Francisco. Artist Advocates include diverse artists, culture bearers, and creative workers with a dedicated and committed artistic or cultural practice who directly engage in advocacy and policy development to advance the holistic well-being of the field. Each artist advocate will identify a change they want to make happen and be supported to develop an advocacy plan to enact that change. ☑️Join us for an informational webinar on Friday, October 4 at 12:00 PM to gain an in-depth understanding of the program and ask any questions you have about GAAP and the application process! ☑️Applications will open from October 1-14, 2024. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/g5VHNm8f GAAP is funded by The Kenneth Rainin Foundation. #artists #artsadvocacy #bayareaartists #CAisCreative #InvestCAArts #CreativeEconomy #culturebearers #culturalworkers #creativeworkers #artsworkers
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We can’t wait to introduce you to the 2024 class of #PackardFellows for Science and Engineering. Stay tuned for the announcement coming soon! 🔬🧪🔭
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Joko Arif, our Interim Global Climate Initiative Director, joined a panel at #ShandiaForum2024 hosted by the Global Alliance of Territorial Communities at #ClimateWeekNYC. "As we strengthen our financial commitments to Indigenous Peoples and forest communities, we must prioritize safeguarding their rights to ancestral lands," he said. "Resources should align with the systems that secure their rights and recognize their crucial role in climate solutions."
Day 2 of the Shandia Forum was full of energy right until the very end, as participants continued discussing solutions to streamline climate financing for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities. Yesterday's discussions were filled with impactful stories, bold ideas, and actionable steps. Highlights include: 🌿 High-level dialogues with the Forest Tenure Funders Group, discussing the need for a renewed pledge for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, for greater financial commitments, tied with comprehensive proposals for rights protection. Financing must be a means to upholding rights and granting legal land tenure. 🌍 Insightful Q&A discussions with Nusantara and IPAs fund from Indonesia, and Mesoamerican Territorial Fund (FTM) from Mesoamerica. Bringing work to the ground, and portraying stories from the communities really show the impact every project has on transforming the realities of people and nature. 💡 Dialogue with government representatives from the US and the UK about how the future of direct financing must continue on the existing momentum. That’s what’ll shift systems to make climate financing more successful - by working with us, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, the most effective solution. Yesterday was a reminder of the strength and knowledge that Indigenous Peoples bring to the global climate movement—and how essential it is for their voices to lead in shaping the solutions. The final day of the Forum on September 26th will include a 1/2 day workshop about funds tracking as we continue to push forward on the path toward climate justice. #ShandiaForum2024 #ClimateWeekNYC #DirectFinancing https://buff.ly/3MQ5eMw 📸 Tukumã Pataxó, Kalfein Wuisan
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Nancy Lindborg joined UN Climate Change High-Level Champion Razan Al Mubarak for Forests, People, Climate's "Rooted in Nature: A Bold Model for Philanthropy" event earlier this week at #ClimateWeekNYC. They discussed the role of philanthropy in reversing tropical deforestation and how we can create enduring solutions that support the Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and forest communities who are stewarding them. Learn more about Forests, People, Climate ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/dX6bGJUV