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Announcing the 2026 PACS-SCANCOR Seminar Series
Stanford PACS, in partnership with SCANCOR at Stanford, is pleased to announce a dynamic new seminar series exploring cutting-edge research on organizations and institutions. The 2026 PACS-SCANCOR Seminar Series: Organization and Organizing for Public Good will bring together Stanford faculty, visiting scholars, and guests from leading academic institutions across North America and beyond. Featuring Stanford PACS alumni, the series will highlight...
Stanford PACS Welcomes 2025-26 Cohort of Faculty Affiliates
On behalf of our faculty codirectors Patricia Bromley and Robb Willer, the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society is thrilled to welcome our 2025-2026 inaugural cohort of faculty affiliates. There are over 30 affiliated faculty members joining us this year, representing disciplines from all seven schools across campus. The variety of disciplines serve as a testament to how diverse...
Stanford PACS Joins the Graduate School of Education
The new academic year brings exciting changes to Stanford PACS that both build on our history and guide us firmly and strategically into the future. We are pleased to share that our new academic home at the university is the Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE). GSE is the current home of Faculty Co-Director Patricia Bromley, and our Center has...
Digital Civil Society Lab 2024-25 Practitioner Fellows Project Highlights
From reclaiming Indigenous knowledge in digital design to mapping queer care systems across Latin America, the 2024–25 cohort of Digital Civil Society Lab (DCSL) Practitioner Fellows supported in partnership with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity are advancing bold, community-centered visions for a more just digital future. Their fellowship projects explore urgent questions of data sovereignty, digital accountability,...
Philanthropy and Digital Civil Society: Blueprint 2025
Philanthropy and Digital Civil Society: Blueprint 2025 is the 16th annual industry forecast about the ways we use private resources for public benefit in the digital age. Each year, the Blueprint provides an overview of the current landscape, points to big ideas that matter, and directs your attention to horizons where you can expect some important breakthroughs in the coming year. The...
Updates from the Digital Civil Society Lab
Dear Friends and Colleagues, After ten years of research, teaching, convenings, and investing in postdoctoral scholars and community-based fellows, the Digital Civil Society Lab (DCSL) will be paring down its operations over the 2024-25 academic year and sunsetting in June 2025. No research initiative is designed to last forever, and DCSL has had a glorious decade. With the departures of...
Empowering Students with Real-life Experiences
Read about the Spring 2024 course Philanthropy for Sustainable Development here.
DCSL Practitioner Fellows Project Showcase
Increasing the quality and equity of AI systems. Developing a practice and community for data healing. Strengthening the role of African civil society in interrogating the digitalization of food and agriculture. Members of the 2022-23 and 2023-24 cohorts of Digital Civil Society Lab Technology & Racial Equity Practitioner Fellows shared findings on these and other research topics in June, when...
How Trust Works and To Whom It Is Owed
PACS Associate Directors of Research Aaron Horvath and Micah McElroy published “How Trust Works and To Whom It Is Owed” as a response to Bridgespan’s essay “The Trust-Based Philanthropy Conundrum: Toward Donor-Doer Relationships That Drive Impact” as part of Bridgespan’s Perspectives from the Field.
Pre-doctoral Research Fellow in Organizational Sociology and Social Innovation
Supervisors: Christof Brandtner (emlyon business school) and Woody Powell (Stanford University) Timeline: Starting in summer or fall 2024. The InvEnt Research Center on Innovation & Entrepreneurship at emlyon business school, in collaboration with the Civic Life of Cities Lab (CLC) affiliated with the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, seeks to hire a dedicated, highly motivated, and analytically minded...