Events
Upcoming Events
Integrating Philanthropy & Investing to Maximize Impact
October 6 - 8th, 2025 - Beyond Philanthropy: Unlock the Power of Your Total Portfolio For...
Past Events
Effective Philanthropy for Advisors Webinar
June 3 - 4th, 2025 - 9:00 am to 12:00 pm PT - Join us for an interactive workshop with Stanford University on...
Education for Philanthropy Professionals Course
April 22 - 25th, 2025 - Executive education course April 22-25 (in person) and April 30, May, 1,...
Ohtani, Anime, Ramen… “Firansoropii”: Philanthropy as Japan’s Emerging Soft Power — and Why It Matters for the U.S.
April 15th, 2025 - 10:00 am to 12:00 pm - A seminar co-sponsored by The United States-Japan Foundation and Stanford...
Technology, Culture, and Power Speaker Series: Dr. Niall Docherty
April 10th, 2025 - 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm PT - Healthy Users: The Governance of Well-being on Social Media Join Stanford...
Technology, Culture, and Power Speaker Series: Gil Eyal
March 13th, 2025 - 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm PT - Our Vision Is a World in which Al Evaluates Al:...
Effective Philanthropy for Advisors Workshop
February 20 - 21st, 2025 - 9:00 am to 12:00 pm PT - Join us for an interactive workshop with Stanford University on...
Technology, Culture, and Power Speaker Series: Gabriella (Biella) Coleman
February 6th, 2025 - 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm - The Hack and Leak: The Rise of New Hacktivist Tactics...
Technology, Culture, and Power Speaker Series: Anne Washington
January 9th, 2025 - 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm - Fractional Institutions: How Blockchain Became Social Infrastructure Join Stanford PACS...
Technology, Culture, and Power Speaker Series: Dr. Seeta Peña Gangadharan
December 5th, 2024 - 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm - Join Stanford PACS and the Cyber Policy Center for a monthly gathering that explores...
People, Power, Change: Book Talk with Marshall Ganz
November 13th, 2024 - 4:00 pm to 6:15 pm PST - Join us for an engaging conversation with Marshall Ganz and...
Technology, Culture, and Power Speaker Series: Hannah Zeavin
November 7th, 2024 - Matrix, Environment, Atmosphere: How Mother Became a Medium Join Stanford...
Technology, Culture, and Power Speaker Series: Mara Mills
October 3rd, 2024 - 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm PST - Vent: Disability Distributive Justice and Algorithms for Ventilator Allocation Join...
Effective Philanthropy for Advisors Workshop
September 23 - 24th, 2024 - 9:00 am to 11:30 am PST - Join us for an interactive workshop with Stanford University on...
Digital Civil Society Speaker Series: Where Does Change Come From? Cases of Conservative Innovation
June 6th, 2024 - 4:00 pm to 5:15 pm PT - Register here to join us in-person. Join us for a...
A Conversation on Navigating Complexity and Systemic Interventions
June 6th, 2024 - 1:15 pm to 2:15 pm - with Christian Seelos Distinguished Fellow; Director Stanford University, Global Innovation...
Civil Society and Sustainability Conference
June 3 - 5th, 2024 - Solving the world’s greatest sustainability challenges depends on active engagement...
How Can Philanthropy Address the Crisis of Polarization?
May 30th, 2024 - 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm - Fireside Chat with Dame Louise Richardson and Professor Robb Willer...
Digital Civil Society Speaker Series: The Hair In The Cable
May 2nd, 2024 - 4:00 pm to 5:15 pm PT - Register here to join us virtually. Join us for a...
Book Talk: “Solidarity” with Leah Hunt-Hendrix & Astra Taylor
April 18th, 2024 - 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm - The Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS) presents...
Developing a Strategy for Social Change
April 15 - 16th, 2024 - 10:00 am to 11:30 am PT - Presented by Paul Brest, Interim Dean and Professor Emeritus at Stanford...
AERA Conference
April 11th, 2024 - 4:20 pm to 5:50 pm - In recent years, levels of democracy have been subsiding while...
Digital Civil Society Speaker Series: Luxury Surveillance
April 4th, 2024 - 4:00 pm to 5:15 pm PT - Register here to join us in-person. Join us for a...
Design Strategies for Impactful Storytelling: From Data to Dialogue
March 26 - 28th, 2024 - 11:00 am to 12:30 pm PT - Presented by Carissa Carter, Academic Director, Stanford d.School (the Hasso Plattner...
Design Strategies for Impactful Storytelling: From Data to Dialogue
March 26 - 28th, 2024 - 11:00 am to 12:30 am PT - Our world is data-rich — big data, small data, limp...
Global Education Reforms: Discursive Trends and Policy Impact, 1960-2020
March 11th, 2024 - 4:45 pm to 6:15 pm - All around the world, national governments adopt education reforms of...
Global Education Reforms: Discursive Trends and Policy Impact, 1960-2020
March 11th, 2024 - 4:45 pm to 6:15 pm PST - All around the world, national governments adopt education reforms of...
Digital Civil Society Speaker Series: Intersectional Tech: Black Praxis in the Digital Era
March 7th, 2024 - 4:00 pm to 5:15 pm PT - Register here to join in-person. Join us for a monthly...
Book Talk: “Slow Food, Fast Cars” with Massimo Bottura & Lara Gilmore
March 4th, 2024 - 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm - The Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS) presents...
Effective Philanthropy for Advisors Workshop
February 28 - 29th, 2024 - 9:00 am to 11:30 am PT - February 2024 Workshop, Brought to you by Advisors in Philanthropy...
How to Harness Power and Be an Effective Social Changemaker
February 7th, 2024 - 11:00 am to 12:30 pm PST - Presented by Julie Battilana, Professor of Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business...
Digital Civil Society Speaker Series: Shifting the Frame: The Labors of ImageNet and AI Data
February 1st, 2024 - 4:00 pm to 5:15 pm PT - Register here to join in-person or register here to join the event...
World Education Reform Database Mini Workshop
February 1st, 2024 - 9:00 am to 12:00 pm PST - The World Education Reform Database (WERD) research group held a...
Digital Civil Society Speaker Series: Data Driven
December 7th, 2023 - 4:00 pm to 5:15 pm PT - Join us for a monthly gathering that explores critical insights...
Film Screening: UnCharitable
December 7th, 2023 - 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm PST - The Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, in collaboration with...
Digital Civil Society Speaker Series: Death Glitch
November 2nd, 2023 - 4:00 pm to 5:15 pm PT - Join us for a monthly gathering that explores critical insights...
Digital Civil Society Speaker Series: The Quantified Worker
October 5th, 2023 - 4:00 pm to 5:15 pm PT - Join us for a monthly gathering that explores critical insights...
Effective Philanthropy Learning Initiative’s New Research Report, Professions and Wealth: The Philanthropy of High-Earning Professionals
August 29th, 2023 - 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm PST - August 29, 2023 – 12:00 PM PST – Join EPLI’s...
Facial Recognition Technologies in Africa: From Deployment to Advocacy
July 5th, 2023 - 4:00 am to 5:00 am PT - In recent years, various governments across Africa started employing facial...
Civil Society and Sustainability Conference
May 25 - 26th, 2023 - Civil society actors are central to achieving sustainable development. Nonprofits...
Transit Talks at Villanova University
April 20th, 2023 - 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm EST - The Waterhouse Family Institute Transit Talks is the marquis collaborative...
Computing the News: Data Journalism and the Search for Objectivity
April 17th, 2023 - 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm -
Education for Philanthropy Professionals Spring Course
April 13 - 28th, 2023 - The EPLI team is excited to announce that it will...
Surveillance and Cities panel, featuring Simone Browne, Lilly Irani, Tawana Petty and Shakeer Rahman
April 13th, 2023 - 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm - This event is hosted by the Technology & Racial Equity...
Global AI: Reframing the Conversation
April 13th, 2023 - 9:00 am to 12:00 pm - This event is hosted by the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered...
Paper submissions due for Special Issue on “Nonprofits, Public Policy, and Climate Change” in Nonprofit Policy Forum
March 30th, 2023 - Guest edited by Jennifer A. Kagan, University of Hawaiʻi at...
Meet the Coalition for Independent Tech Research
March 1st, 2023 - 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm - Every aspect of modern life is influenced by digital data...
EPP Reunion 2022
November 18th, 2022 - 3:00 pm PST - The Effective Philanthropy Learning Initiative (EPLI) at Stanford PACS is...
May Farid, University of Hong Kong
November 14th, 2022 - 10:00 am to 11:30 am - Co-Sponsored with the Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research (SCANCOR) Dr....
THE PERSUADERS
October 24th, 2022 - 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm PDT - Please join us for a conversation with Anand Giridharadas, author...
Katherine Chen, The City University of New York (CUNY)(October 2022)
October 17th, 2022 - 10:00 am to 11:30 am PST - Co-Sponsored with the Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research (SCANCOR) Professor...