PACS Undergraduate Lauren Finzer '09 speaks about the influential role PACS had on her Stanford academic career and how PACS is creating the next generation of philanthropic change agents. Lauren currently works as a Tom Ford Fellow at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in Menlo Park, California.

 

 

 

 

 

Tricia Martin (PhD Candidate, International & Comparative Education) studies the rise of information networks as a tool for organizing social change among civil society organizations. She is studying the changes in the role of expert knowledge in the field of international development through a cross-national, longitudinal analysis. Martin became interested in global civil society while completing a Master of Science in International Studies at Rutgers University (2001). There, she worked as a research assistant for the World Orders Model Project, a non-profit that aims to stimulate research and dialogue promoting a just world order. In 2001, she moved to San Francisco to work in the Education Program of the World Affairs Council where she spent four years helping create programs about international issues for high school teachers and students.

 

 

 

The Americas Society/Council of the Americas hosted a panel discussion with Paul Brest, president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Debra Meyerson and Rob Reich, PACS faculty co-directors.  The event was held on April 30, 2009 and moderated by Melissa Berman, President and CEO, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

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Tax breaks to promote charitable giving cost the U.S. Treasury billions of dollars. Yet, such incentives historically have been enormously important for stimulating giving in the nonprofit center. With the government now thinking about revisiting philanthropic tax laws, this talk by Rob Reich, Stanford political science associate professor, comes at an opportune time.

 

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Today’s leading philanthropists are revolutionizing the field, using new methods to have a vastly greater impact on the world. In this talk, sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, journalist Matthew Bishop talks about his book, Philanthrocapitalism: How the Rich Can Save the World. He elucidates how the new generation of billionaires is reshaping the way it gives, using big business-style strategies and expecting results and accountability to match. Bishop shares on-the-ground anecdotes, expert analysis, and up-close profiles of the wealthy and powerful.

 

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