Meet the Challenge

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has made a landmark $110-million challenge gift to endow 100 new faculty chairs at UC Berkeley. Designed to match private gifts dollar-for-dollar, the Hewlett Challenge will encourage higher levels of philanthropic support to retain and recruit top faculty — the heart of the University’s excellence. The Foundation’s gift creates an innovative public-private partnership that will help to sustain Berkeley’s preeminence, and make an important contribution to the vitality of public higher education throughout the nation. The Hewlett Challenge, which will bring a total of $220 million to the campus, presents a unique opportunity for donors to make an especially significant contribution toward maintaining the distinction of Berkeley’s faculty.

$1.5M gift with $1.5M match
$3M Distinguished Endowed Chair

Provides faculty salary support, as well as funds for research and teaching, for a tenured faculty member whose work spans multiple disciplines. Also provides graduate-student support and departmental funding. The Hewlett Challenge will create 20 $3-million distinguished endowed chairs that will reinforce faculty excellence across the campus.

$1M gift with $1M match
$2M Endowed Chair

Provides faculty salary support, as well as funds for research and teaching, for a tenured faculty member. Also provides graduate-student support and departmental funding. The Hewlett Challenge will match 80 gifts of $1 million to create 80 $2-million endowed chairs in the University’s schools and colleges, preserving the preeminence of our faculty across the campus.

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