after-school programs for elementary and middle school students in California. Local Grantmaking The Local Grantmaking Program makes investments in the five contiguous counties of San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, San Benito and Monterey—as well as Pueblo, Colorado, the birthplace of David Packard. Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering Established in 1988, the annual Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering is the largest award given to young faculty in STEM fields, and is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious awards given to junior faculty members. Fellows receive an award of $875,000, distributed over five years, which has "no strings attached" and are designed to provide maximum flexibility in pursuing new scientific questions and frontiers in their fields of study. Each year, the Foundation invites the presidents of 50 universities to nominate two early-career professors each from their institutions. An advisory panel of distinguished scientists and engineers carefully reviews the nominations and selects roughly 18 Fellows to receive individual grants of $875,000, distributed over five years. Packard Fellows' work has contributed to breakthroughs like the creation of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technique, the discovery of soft tissues in dinosaur fossils, and the first-ever observation of a neutron star collision. Fellows have gone on to receive a range of accolades, including Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Physics, the Fields Medal, the Alan T. Waterman Award, elections to the National Academies, and MacArthur, Sloan, Searle, and Guggenheim fellowships. See also David Packard Packard Humanities Institute List of wealthiest foundations David and Lucile Packard Foundation Headquarters William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, endowed by another HP cofounder. References Medical and health foundations in the United States Charities based in California Educational foundations in the United States Scientific research foundations in the United States Child-related organizations in the United States Conservation and environmental foundations in the United States Organizations based in Santa Clara County, California David and Lucile Packard Foundation David and Lucile Packard Foundation David and Lucile Packard Foundation David and Lucile Packard Foundation David and Lucile Packard Foundation David and Lucile Packard Foundation