Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better investigates the ethical and political dimensions of philanthropy and considers how giving might...
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Data and Citizenship: Critical Questions and Research Perspectives from the Margins
Please join the Digital Civil Society Lab for a lecture and discussion of citizenship, surveillance, and data governance. Dr. Veronica...
November 28th, 2018
Crown Law Building Room 320D
Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics
Author Yochai Benkler sits down with Kelly Born to discuss Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics. According to the...
November 26th, 2018
Paul Brest Hall
Stanford PACS on Social Media
Listen to this month’s #StanfordPACSscholar, Gregg Sparkman, on why he believes "dynamic norms aren’t the be-all and end-all" to social problems. Watch our video here: https://t.co/XhsaJw9D3m
Stanford PACS’ faculty co-director, @robreich, recently released Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better. Purchase your copy here: https://t.co/G57e9XDRs4 #philanthropy
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Money Well Spent: A Strategic Guide for Smart Philanthropy, Second Edition (2018)
Paul Brest and Hal Harvey
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Fake News and Misinformation
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Organizational Poisedness and the Transformation of Civic Order in Nineteenth-Century New York City
Victoria Johnson and Walter W. Powell
Article
Serve or Conserve: Mission, Strategy, and Multi-Level Nonprofit Change During the Great Recession
Aaron Horvath, Christof Brandtner, and Walter W. Powell
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Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better – By Rob Reich
Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better investigates the ethical and political dimensions of philanthropy...
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The Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) develops and shares knowledge to improve philanthropy, strengthen civil society and effect social change. Stanford PACS connects students, scholars and practitioners and publishes the preeminent journal Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR).
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