The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation of Menlo Park, California, has awarded Wayne State University a two-year, $200,000 grant to support the Levin Center at Wayne Law.
The grant was awarded under the foundation’s Madison Initiative, which seeks to help create the conditions in which Congress and its members can deliberate, negotiate and compromise in ways that work for most Americans. The foundation is joining with leaders in and outside of government, nonprofit advocates, academic researchers and other funders to address the problems of political polarization and hyper-partisanship.
Launched in March 2015, the Levin Center at Wayne Law strives to educate future attorneys, business leaders, legislators and public servants on their role overseeing public and private institutions and using oversight as an instrument of change. The center is named in honor of former U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, Michigan’s longest-serving U.S. senator, who retired at the beginning of 2015 after 36 years in the Senate. Levin serves as chair of the Levin Center and on the law school’s faculty as distinguished legislator in residence.
The Levin Center will use the grant funds for general operating support to educate legislators, their staffs, public servants, law students and attorneys on effective techniques to conduct bipartisan, indepth, fact-based oversight of public and private sector activities. Through training workshops and videos, internships, academic programming and research, the center will equip future leaders on federal, state, local and international levels with the oversight skills needed to produce meaningful bipartisan public policy outcomes.
“The tremendous response to the training sessions the Levin Center already has conducted at the local, state and federal levels, as well as the programs we’ve presented for law students, shows the great interest in how bipartisan, indepth oversight can have an impact on policy,” Levin said. “We are grateful to The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation for its support as we continue to expand our work.”
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