This story first appeared in the Heralds Celebrating 100 years, special section in June. In 2000, the Packard Foundation paid out more than $616 million. The Fund both networks with land trusts in particular areas and also acts as a pass-through organization for nonprofits interested in buying and preserving land. 4) Monterey County Agricultural & Historical Land Conservancy: 6A) Carmel-by-the-Sea Sunset Center for the Arts: 10) Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County: Keep it Clean. County Democratic Party's attempt to oust chairperson ends in a unanimous vote to keep her. Patton points out that the Foundation does conservation work that is even more important than buying up open space. Bush. Please avoid obscene, vulgar, lewd, They had about 2.3 million visitors that first year and it didnt slow down much until COVID-19 hit, forcing the Aquarium to close. She cared deeply about children, dating back to the 1930s, when she was an active volunteer in a childrens convalescent home. As she was dying, David Packard decided to name the hospital for his wife. In 1981, the New York Times reported that Packard chaired the Nature Conservancys Critical Areas Program Committee, which was raising $15 million by the end of 1982 to buy 22,000 acres of habitat. But he and Hewlett both wanted to be entrepreneurs, and in 1939 they decided to start their own company. What we learned was that most aquariums are built on a fixed budget, and they made short cuts, Packard explained. We are guided by the enduring business philosophy and personal values of Lucile and David, who helped found one of the world's leading technology companies. January 25, 2022 The David and Lucile Packard Foundation recently announced that Susan Packard Orr and Nancy Burnett have retired from the Foundation's board of trustees. Then she would hear some(thing) further and that would spoil her lunch. Julie Packard says she''s hopeful that the foundation''s work will not be too severely interrupted. MBARI''s job was to apply three new areas of technology to explore the deep: remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), advanced instrumentation and computers. The organizations greatest victory came in 2010, when it persuaded voters to pass Proposition 14, which changed state law so that the top two vote-getters in a Congressional primary face each other in the general election, instead of having a Republican and Democrat square off. "He really believed in the importance of contributions by individuals.". I have two daughters and a son-in-law and some friends who are active in the Hopkins Marine Station down on the Monterey Peninsula. 1, Burnett, who was a marine biologist, was one of the founders of the Monterey Bay Aquarium in Monterey, California. "How [the cuts] will affect the orga-nizations we''ve been supporting will depend on the types of projects that they will be seeking support for," Packard says. By the end of this year, it expects to give $475 million. And I do not believe it is in the corporate interest to support themwhich is what we do to a greater or lesser degree with unrestricted funds. He urged giving only to programs and departments that contribute in some specific way to our individual companies, or to the general welfare of the free enterprise system.. The Foundation''s Children, Families and Communities program has granted $1.3 million to Monterey County thus far in 2001. Family, community and the great outdoors have continually played a major role in the Packard family philanthropy. The Foundation also funded a $125,000 grant to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey, a $1 million, three-year infrastructure grant to Partners for Peace, and a $1.5 million three-year grant for general support to Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, which has clinics in Monterey County. In 1997, she started dating Bob, and they have been together ever since. A belief in philanthropy was an original tenet of the HP Way, and one that he passed on to his son and three daughters, to the Foundation and to the employees of Hewlett-Packard. The opening of the Monterey Bay Aquarium on Oct. 20, 1984, was a huge event for the region. A new strain of bird flu appears to pose an existential threat to California condor flocks. They used to come over and snoop around. The Packard Foundation, to its credit, has continued and expanded the three largest philanthropic projects implemented during the donors lifetime: the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the Lucile Packard Childrens Hospital, and the Packard Fellowships. Roosevelts disastrous agreement with Stalin at Yalta was a clear signal that he fundamentally supported socialism rather than freedom, Packard added. Ironically, while the foundation continues to fund population control programs, Packards daughters have tried to make global population control less of the top priority their father wanted. H-P''s business objectives included, in Dave Packard''s words: "meeting the obligations of good citizenship by making contributions to the community and to the institutions in our society which generate the environment in which we operate." each comment to let us know of abusive posts. DAVID WOODLEY PACKARD, NANCY PACKARD BURNETT, SUSAN PACKARD ORR and JULIE PACKARD STEPHENS. MBARI receives about 90 percent of its total budget annually from the Packard Foundation--$36 million this year-supporting general operations and ongoing research projects. Don't knowingly lie about anyone Select this result to view Nancy Lee Burnett's phone number, address, and more. Theres no question that we could make savings if we were able to take actions without any constraints, he told the New York Times. "We were thinking of remodeling a little, and inviting people in to see some fishes and invertebrates.". And it turns out the aviary is one of the most popular exhibits at the aquarium. We must support abortion and any other policy that will help, Packard wrote. that is degrading to another person. All Rights Reserved. He established his brilliance as an electrical engineer early and attracted the attention of Frederick Terman, an electrical engineering professor who recalled in his retirement how proud he was of having helped bright students who were electronic nuts, these young men who show as much interest in vacuum tubes, transistors, and computers as in girls.. Were changing the character of our atmosphere, which might change the character of our (planet). The result could be some very drastic changes in our climate. Packard also said that unfortunately the best solution to Americas energy needs was nuclear power, and were going to have to come to some form of nuclear power sooner or laterand I think were going to have to do that during the 21st century.. After Packard was graduated in 1934, he spent a few years working for General Electric. He served on the board of directors of Stanford University and of several. "It is true---pitchers of margaritas were involved.". The Monterey Bay Aquarium was a personal gift to the local community by David and Lucile, who gave an estimated $55 million to help found the institution, which opened in 1984. It was also a little tough on my wife because the first six weeks she lost 16 pounds. The foundations second-largest grantee is the ClimateWorks Foundation, which received $46.7 million in 2010. "Packard is one of the few that will give general operating grants--it''s hard to get people to give you money to pay your phone bill or your PG&E bill," Pac Rep''s Moorer says. This co-founder of a pioneering high-tech firm was a conservative Republican who spent years supporting politicians and public intellectuals on the Right. The Hewlett-Packard Co. co-founder and his philanthropic wife, longtime Los Altos Hills residents, met at the end of each year and decided where to donate money. "The focus on the well-being of children, families and communities is also essential towards building a positive, long-term future for the environment. In 1933 Packard took Termans radio engineering course, where he met William Hewlett, who shared Packards love of ham radio. Dave went about his business and his philanthropy quietly and humbly. By cutting off grantees like the American Enterprise Institute and the Hoover Institution, the Packard Foundation abandoned much of what motivated its founder as a philanthropist, namely, a rejection of socialism and a belief that free markets generate the wealth that makes endowing private foundations possible. Orr played an essential role in expanding the Lucile Packard Childrens Hospital, serving as a trustee and helping to establish it as an internationally recognized pediatric and obstetric hospital. As state lawmakers rethink tenants rights, renters get organized. In 2011, the Democratic Women of Monterey County, California, gave Julie Packard and Nancy Packard Burnett their Visionary Leadership Award, declaring that through her leadership of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Julie Packard has redefined aquariums as a force for education, conservation, and environmental protection., Julie Packard defended the use of propaganda as part of her exhibits. Packard also gives money to groups that work to educate the community about political issues such as land-use planning. A decade after Packard penned his letter, Anders writes, the Foundations leadership believed that the specter of a world ruined by too many hungry mouths seemed a lot less worrisome thanks largely to an abrupt drop in Chinas birth rate., Perhaps the best expression of David Packards views on the environment is found in his 1986 Christian Science Monitor interview, where he stated environmental degradation was a problem because the environment is going to determine, in the final analysis, what population can be supported. He said a lot can be done in the area of environmental policy, including trying to preserve some attractive examples of ecologyso that you can keep some of the original character of our country and (countries) around the worldon down to (questions of) food production and the preservation of farmland., Summarizing Packards thoughts, the Monitors Kidder wrote that Packard believed the greatest danger to the environment arises from intensive farming: loss of topsoil through erosion, the disappearance of forests through land-clearing and harvesting firewood, and toxic pollution through the use of insecticides and fertilizers., Climate change was another of Packards concerns. His efforts quickly made him many enemies, most of them career civil servants. The Packard Foundation Today "It''s really easy if you have the money to buy big, beautiful pieces of land," he says. Some events are worth the wait. In 1986, the Packards donated $40 million to build the Lucile Salter Packard Children''s Hospital. , Monterey County Weekly, Seaside, CA - Milestone Communications Inc. All rights reserved. Over the years, Packard money has pumped through numerous local agencies and groups, from CSU Monterey Bay to local school districts, from Natividad Hospital to the Big Sur Land Trust, from the Monterey Symphony to the Carmel Bach Festival and Pacific Repertory Theatre. He sent the idea to David Packard and his wife, Lucile. PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR CAPS LOCK. So Packard sent a letter to the editor to the San Jose Mercury News, saying that whatever the faults of the Republicans, my friends have overlooked the fact that the Democratic Party has been the party of socialism since the Roosevelt administration. View the profiles of people named Nancy Burnett. Nanette Packard, who was convicted of directing her ex-NFL lover to kill her millionaire fiance, told ABC News in an exclusive interview that she still carries "a lot of guilt over what . "If you look at the concentration of institutions around the Monterey Bay that are research-focused," McNutt says, "the strength of those institutions is generally influenced by the Packard family.". But certainly the Board remains very committed to the organizations that have depended on us for ongoing support.". Planned Parenthood, another recipient of Packard Foundation support, operates on a grant that won''t run out until 2004. Initial construction costs, which ultimately total $55 million, are provided through a one-time personal gift from David and Lucile Packard. The mission of Monterey County Weekly is to inspire independent thinking and conscious action, etc. As for David W. Packard, the one child who shared his fathers political philosophy, the Packard Foundation made a concession to its founders donor intent in 1999 by allowing the younger Packard to secede with 11 percent (or $1.6 billion) of the foundations endowment, which it paid to the Packard Humanities Institute. As for the Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering, they have been awarded since 1988 and are currently five-year, $875,000 grants. Marcia McNutt, president and CEO of MBARI, a $20-million cutting-edge ocea-nographic facility in Moss Landing, credits the Packards with making the Monterey Bay area a world center for ma- rine research. And Susan Packard Orr, who became Packard Foundation chairman after her fathers death, shares her fathers enthusiasm for population control. Webster remembers. Director of Communications and Strategic Initiatives. Ive seen the power of ocean animals to motivate and inspire the public. Still, her concentration is near total in conversation with someone. Then the engineers come in and say, ''Here are new technologies at or beyond the horizon, and no one has taken the next step to make them viable to use under the sea.''". Monterey Peninsula Water Management District names its price for Cal Am: $449 million. "Working with the Washington bureaucracy was like pushing on one end of a 40-foot rope and trying to get the other end to do what you want," wrote the lifelong GOP member in his autobiography. 12, In January 2022, Nancy Packard Burnett retired from the board of trustees of the foundation. He went into the building alone and without informing anyone at Stanford. He is equally rough with the military brass, charging that too many of them want to get in on the act, even when they can make no contribution to the effort., In other words, even while serving in the government, Packard did not abandon his commitment to free-market capitalism as superior to crony capitalism and bureaucratic big government. David Packards legacy is complicated. In 1977 Packard endorsed a committee report that stated the Soviet Union would pursue an expansionist policy of global domination and would likely evade any restrictions imposed by arms control treaties. The foundations leading effort in population control came in 2000, when the Food and Drug Administration authorized use of mifepristone, an abortion pill commonly known as RU-486. Roussel Uclaf in France developed the drug, but the French company donated the American rights to the drug to the Population Council, which conducted clinical trials and hired Danco Laboratories to manufacture the pill. In addition, he was a founder of the Committee on the Present Danger, a national-security nonprofit that warned about the threats the Soviet Union posed to the world. "We were in the Burnett''s living room," Webster recalls. Nancy Burnett, who conducted her graduate work in marine biology at Stanford University, helped inspire its establishment, and Julie Packard, who majored in marine algae studies at U.C. Looking back at it 50 years from now, you would say it made all the difference in the world.". Then I would come home and tell her (how) terrible a time I had and that would spoil her dinner. "He said, ''You need birds.'' Two of Packards daughters, Julie Packard and Nancy Packard Burnett, are marine biologists, and as Julie Packard told the New York Times when the aquarium opened in Monterey, California, in 1984, my father sort of challenged us to come up with a project that was all our own. Julie Packard has been the Monterey Bay Aquariums firstand so far, onlyexecutive director. Orr and Burnetts sister Julie Packard, who joined the Foundations board of trustees in 1972 and continues to serve in this role, reflected, Susan and Nancy truly embody our parents values and have had a tremendous influence on the trajectory of our foundation. For example, in 2011 the Times of India reported that a Packard grant to Population Services International would be used to distribute condoms at gas stations and convenience stores in the state of Bihar. Its a lesson for all of us who work in philanthropy.. The answer is David Packard, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard. Before recounting how the Packard Foundation largely abandoned David Packards conservative principles, we should consider his views on population control and the environment, because those two causes do still receive Packard Foundation support. Only through equitable systems can we find & sustain solutions to the biggest challenges today and into the future. At Stanford University, he studied radio engineering and met fellow student Bill Hewlett. On a hiking trip in Colorado, the two made a pact that they would go into business together. Another major beneficiary of Packard environmental money is the Resources Legacy Fund and its affiliated supporting organization, the Resources Legacy Fund Foundation, which received a combined $11.7 million in 2010. Copyright2023Capital Research Center. She says she will try to find additional funding elsewhere for a $10 million project to install a "cable observatory" in the Monterey Bay, which will provide data communications to off- shore seismometers to measure seismic activity. Sorry, there are no recent results for popular videos. About the middle 1970s I decided we should be developing some programs of our own, instead of just doing whatever people requested. A highly competent businessman, he is outspoken and has not hesitated to scold industry audiences. Packards massive environmental grantmaking has attracted little attention in the United States but has proven quite controversial in Canada, thanks largely to the reporting of blogger and National Post contributor Vivian Krause. "I''m sure [Packard] has got enough to weather a storm. In 1930 he entered Stanford University, where the 6 5 Packard lettered in basketball, football, and track. "I would not be here if it wasn''t for the Packard Foundation," he says simply. She is the daughter of technology entrepreneur David Packard, who co-founded Hewlett-Packard. It is by far the biggest source of grants in Monterey County--in 2001 alone, the Foundation awarded more than $12 million in grants in the county, in addition to $36 million for the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). "But 30 years from now, you would be seeing hotels on the beach, and all sorts of defacement along the Big Sur coastline. "Not just because we lived here, but because it was clear that the Monterey Bay philanthropic needs here were operating on a much smaller scale [compared to San Francisco and Silicon Valley]," says Julie, executive director of the Monterey Bay Aquarium and chair of the Foundation''s Conservation Program Committee. When Packard died, control of his foundation went to his three liberal daughters, Nancy Packard Burnett, Susan Packard Orr, and Julie Packard, and his conservative son, David W. Packard. Californias hospitals desperately need more capacity for psychiatric care. We''re not sure who.". In the 1980s, Packard launched three major philanthropic projects that the Packard Foundation continues today: the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the Lucile S. Packard Childrens Hospital at Stanford, and the Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering. Tennessee, Washington DC. With the world watching, she transitioned the Los Altos nonprofit into one of the most influential and respected family foundations in the nation. Facebook gives people the power to. Pacific Grove City Council votes 5-2 to stop the current effort to bring a skatepark to town. In 2006, Wal-Mart announced it would only buy salmon from fisheries certified by the Stewardship Council, which barred Canadian salmon from the worlds largest retailer. His undergraduate degree. Interviewed by 60 Minutes and covered in the Wall Street Journal, part of two person legal team that won coal industry national . The New York Times noted that this PACs principal activity was to broadcast advertisements seeking to undermine Mitt Romneys support among women.. David Packard believed the bosses should remain close to workers. Later, Packard was a major donor to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and part of a failed effort to bring the Reagan presidential library to the Stanford campus. Burning Question: Is it acceptable to go day drinking? The lessons David Packard provides future donors are timeless ones: Dont assume future generations will respect your views. And if possible, spend your fortune within your lifetime. In 1996, the Aquarium opened an Outer Bay wing, at a cost of $57 million. David Packard served for several decades on the boards of the Hoover Institution and the American Enterprise Institute, two of the nations earliest and most prominent conservative think tanks. Be Proactive. Packard (Crown '74, biology; M.A. David Packard had been a pro-free market conservative Republican who had served in Republican administrations. The Packard Foundation is also heavily involved in state politics. Advancing reproductive health. "We might as well hang a sign, ''Welcome to Monterey County, sponsored in part by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation,''" he says. McNutt excitedly describes how the same type of technology used to determine paternity can also be used under the water to determine what kinds of organisms are living in the bay. Bush, as well as numerous California campaigns for senator and governor. "So to get a general operating grant, that''s like gold. In 1992, he declared that the Democratic Party has been the party of socialism since President Roosevelts term and that the Democratic Party is indentured to union labor. The final clue to the mystery donor: The foundation that donates money in his nameAmericas seventh largestis a pillar of the liberal philanthropic establishment. Jun 1978 - Sep 19835 years 4 months. We feel their presence, but not a heavy hand.. "No amount of conservation work alone is going to protect what needs to be protected. Share with Us. The Aquarium quickly became the crown jewell of Cannery Row, and over the past seven years it has helped to reinvigorate tourism in the neighborhood and helped the city of Monterey maintain its status as a world-class destination. Burnett, grandson of David and Lucile Packard, has served as a federal and local public official and is a nationally recognized climate change policy strategist. During the dinner, the scientists proposed turning an old cannery that had been acquired by Stanford University on Montereys Cannery Row into an aquarium. accounts, the history behind an article. The value of that stock has plunged from $13 billion in September 2000 to $5 billion today, according to Chief Financial Officer George Vera. He was disturbed that his handpicked successor to head H-P, John Young, had endorsed Bill Clinton. Notifications from this discussion will be disabled. A project of the Public Accountability Initiative. or anything. The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, based in Palo Alto, which the couple established in 1964, has grown to be the largest private foundation awarding grants in the state of California, and the fourth-largest in the U.S. TV Shows. The David and Lucile Packard Foundation first funded a feasibility study to see if the cannery could be converted into an aquarium. Packard spent two years in the Pentagon trying to simplify the ways the military procured weapons. As it turns out, pouring a drink comes with a hefty price tag. For years, beginning in 1964, foundation activities were kept simple. By law, a foundation must give away at least 5 percent of its endowment''s earnings annually. Krause discovered the foundation has been especially opposed to salmon from farms in British Columbia. We can feel their influence in everything we do at the Foundation. She calculated that between 2000 and 2010, at least $85 million in Packard grants went to at least 56 organizations that worked to reduce or eliminate farmed Canadian salmon in favor either explicitly of Alaskan salmon or of wild salmon, 90 percent of which comes from Alaska. Only through equitable systems can we find & sustain solutions to the biggest challenges today and into the future. There probably havent been that many people on Cannery Row since its heyday, when the roar of cannery whistles drew hundreds of workers down from the hills of New Monterey to pack the silver harvest of sardines.. Back in 2007, he said that getting married was not in his plans, even though they were happy just going out on dates. "The betterment of our society is not a job to be left to a few; it is a responsibility to be shared by all," writes David Packard in his autobiography, The HP Way. When David Packard died in 1996, control of the Packard Foundation passed to his four children. Similarly, Packard clashed with campus radicals in the 60s. A local burlesque troupe finds success on the stage, and expands to teaching anyone and everyone. The Packard Foundation''s en-dowment is made up of 200 million shares of Hewlett-Packard stock and 38 million shares of spin-off Agilent Technologies stock. He served as a trustee from 1954-69 and was president of the board from 1958-60. "My father was a very compassionate person, always willing to listen to needs and ideas of people from any walk of life, both in his business life and his philanthropic life," she remembers. Looking back: The Monterey Bay Aquarium opens,, Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Big Sur International Marathon: Flower repeats as womens champion, Bruce wins mens race, Looking back: The Monterey Bay Aquarium opens, 1984, Facebook owner chops 1,500-plus more Bay Area jobs. The 1995 bestseller tells the story of how a Depression-era boy from Pueblo, Colo., who liked to hike and catch fish and occasionally blow up things, helped give birth to Silicon Valley, inspired icons such as Microsoft''s Bill Gates and Apple''s Steve Jobs, served in the Nixon administration''s cabinet, and gave billions of dollars to charity. Join Facebook to connect with Nancy Burnett and others you may know. He said that when the Packard Foundation began operations in 1984, we spent the first ten years or so just responding to all the requests, just like any other foundation. The proposition, rejected by voters, would have allowed a city and county to join together and implement their own versions of state programs such as foster care or medical assistance for the poor while continuing to receive state funding, unless both branches of the California legislature vetoed the decision within 60 days.