When Larry Kramer became president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation over a decade ago, the legal scholar decided to be like a sponge absorbing philanthropy information from his new colleagues.
“The way I came into the job was I tried to learn and understand what was going on in the various programs, not with an agenda,” Kramer, now a leading advocate for climate and policy-focused philanthropy, told Devex.
“It was more looking at all of the programs and understanding what they were about and seeing what made sense for them next,” he said. “And that was an evolutionary process.”