PUBLICATION | MARCH 2022
Interrogating Assumptions About Power
By David Devlin-Foltz, Susanna Dilliplane, Rhonda Schlangen, Julie Tumbo, and Coumba Touré
This brief is derived from a five-year developmental evaluation of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s efforts to shift power in its grantmaking ecosystem. It focuses on the Foundation’s key assumptions about power, examining the validity of each assumption and identifying lessons learned.
