About Us

Stanford PACS is a research center for students, scholars and practitioners to explore and share ideas that create social change. Its primary participants are Stanford faculty, visiting scholars, postdoctoral fellows, graduate and undergraduate students, philanthropists and nonprofit and foundation practitioners. As publisher of Stanford Social Innovation Review, Stanford PACS informs policy and social innovation, philanthropic investment and nonprofit practice. SSIR is a shared intellectual space where scholars and practitioners publish inter-disciplinary and cross sector research and ideas to advance social change. The journal is complemented by a website, blog, conferences, webinars and podcasts.

Stanford PACS is a part of Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education (GSE), and our ambition is to serve as a university-wide center with interdisciplinary networks and collaborations. Our faculty co-directors have appointments at the School of Humanities and Sciences, Graduate School of Education, the Graduate School of Business, the Law School, the Doerr School of Sustainability, and the School of Engineering. Over the years we have attracted post-doctoral and PhD Fellows from a multitude of disciplines, including Sociology, Political Science, Philosophy, Psychology, Engineering, to name few. In addition, PACS has strong connections with Silicon Valley’s institutional funders, philanthropists and nonprofit organizations, its business and investor communities, and government.