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This week, organized groups took deliberate and premeditated action to invalidate the legal process for selecting a U.S. President. They were incited and supported by the executive branch to overthrow the legislative branch’s rightful role; the executive branch also appears to have delayed protection for members of Congress. A number of people were killed; and […]

January 11, 2021

Learning From the Present

November 17, 2020 Correction: The data cited in this article were preliminary. Notably, data on turnout and support from the Navajo nation, from a November 6 report, have been significantly adjusted downward to account for the dispersion of Navajo citizens in rural and urban areas, the number of Whites living in precincts that include Navajo […]

December 13, 2020

The most vulnerable nonprofits will be critical when communities rebound

By: Nick Sherefkin, a Ph.D. fellow at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Sociology at Stanford University; and Christof Brandtner, a postdoctoral fellow at the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation and the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. Both are members of the […]

December 9, 2020

Reimagining Philanthropy Series, Part 5

Lucy Bernholz wrote a five-part series for The Chronicle of Philanthropy exploring what’s next for foundations and nonprofits. What Now? The Philanthropic Future Our Democracy Needs by Lucy Bernholz, September 22, 2020 November … Two-and-a-half years … Never … Each of these is a prediction I’ve read in reputable national newspapers about when the pandemic will end. The most […]

December 7, 2020

Reimagining Philanthropy Series, Part 4

Lucy Bernholz wrote a five-part series for The Chronicle of Philanthropy exploring what’s next for foundations and nonprofits. Digital Dependence Has Obliterated the Notion of Nonprofit Independence by Lucy Bernholz, September 15, 2020 Nonprofits, foundations, political organizers, street protestors, and each of us as individuals are dependent on the digital world. We rely on hardware, software, and digital networks […]

December 7, 2020

Reimagining Philanthropy Series, Part 3

Lucy Bernholz wrote a five-part series for The Chronicle of Philanthropy exploring what’s next for foundations and nonprofits. Let’s Dismantle Toxic Tax Policies That Feed Big Philanthropy by Lucy Bernholz, September 8, 2020 In her new book, Civic Gifts, sociologist Elisabeth Clemens analyzes the relationship between nonprofit organizations and American government and, in the process, forces us to set aside […]

December 7, 2020

Reimagining Philanthropy Series, part 2

Lucy Bernholz wrote a five-part series for The Chronicle of Philanthropy exploring what’s next for foundations and nonprofits. The Current Economic Crisis Is an Opportunity to Reset Philanthropic Priorities by Lucy Bernholz, August 31, 2020 The U.S. economy “collapsed” in March and cratered in July, but it was broken well before. I’m not an economist, yet last October even […]

December 7, 2020

Reimagining Philanthropy Series, part 1

Lucy Bernholz wrote a five-part series for The Chronicle of Philanthropy exploring what’s next for foundations and nonprofits. Confronting Philanthropy’s Uncomfortable Truths by Lucy Bernholz, August 25, 2020 Medical anthropology gives us a term — syndemic — to name what happens when independent threats such as a pandemic coronavirus finds a host in a system defined by […]

December 7, 2020

You Don’t Have to Hate the Other Side

By: Eric Krebs @ericjohnkrebs Polarization occurs over the course of decades, across regions, races and generations, between parties and people. But there is one common thread: it always inflames emotions. Luiza Santos, a third-year PhD psychology student at Stanford University, specializes in affective science — simply put, the study of emotion. In this final interview in […]

December 7, 2020

What If Climate Change Isn’t as Polarizing as We Think?

By: Eric Krebs @ericjohnkrebs The message often heard in America is that liberals want to do something about climate change and conservatives do not. But what if it’s not that simple? If you look at the polls, most Americans — on the left and the right — think that climate change is a serious problem we […]

December 7, 2020

Stanford PACS 2024 Event Recap

PACS Holiday Reading & Listening List