PACS news / June 3, 2024

How Trust Works and To Whom It Is Owed

We must look closer at how trust works and to whom it is owed to … to avoid reproducing the very dynamics we aspire to transform.

By Aaron Horvath and Micah McElroy

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.

Aaron Horvath - Research Scholar and Associate Director of Research
Aaron Horvath (PhD, Stanford) is a Research Scholar and Associate Director of Research at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. Drawing insights from economic and organizational sociology, he conducts research and writes on the democratic contradictions of American philanthropy, the quantitative rationalization of the civic imagination, and the digital intermediation of community life. […]

Micah McElroy - Associate Director of Research, Effective Philanthropy Learning Initiative
Micah McElroy is the Associate Director of Research for the Effective Philanthropy Learning Initiative at Stanford’s Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. Micah is interested in the factors that shape philanthropic practice with the broader goal of ensuring philanthropy nurtures an egalitarian and democratic society. He graduated with a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University, […]