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Available Now: Philanthropist Resource Guide (PRG)
The Effective Philanthropy Learning Initiative (EPLI) at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS) launches the Philanthropist Resource Guide (PRG). The PRG comprises of approximately 200 organizations across the United States that work to support the philanthropic activities of high net worth (HNW) donors. The tool will enable HNW donors to discover new sources of support for their philanthropic journey, help...
Why Women Stay Out of the Spotlight at Work
“Organizations can take three steps to make it easier for women to be seen and promoted: Value unconventional forms of leadership, fight implicit bias, and balance women’s second-shift responsibilities,” former Stanford PACS Ph.D fellow, Priya Fielding-Singh, and her colleagues advocate. Featured in the Harvard Business Review, Fielding-Singh and her co-authors articulate three primary reasons women’s contributions are systematically overlooked: avoiding...
Spotlight Series: Claire Dunning
Claire Dunning is Stanford PACS September featured scholar. Claire Dunning recently completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford PACS, studying how and why small nonprofit organizations are at the forefront of American antipoverty movements. She uses a historical approach to review the past sixty years of government policy, philanthropic grantmaking, and community activism. Her research uncovers that the government plays a...
Johanna Mair, Christian Seelos receive AOM 2018 ONE Book Award
Johanna Mair and Christian Seelos, co-authors of Innovation and Scaling for Impact: How Effective Social Enterprises Do It, receive the Organizations and the Natural Environment Division (ONE) of the Academy of Management (AOM) Book Award. On August 13, 2018 AOM held its annual conference in Chicago, where Mair and Seelos were recognized for their work on how social sector organizations create value....
Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better by Rob Reich
| Is philanthropy, by its very nature, a threat to today’s democracy? Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better by Rob Reich investigates the ethical and political dimensions of philanthropy, and considers how giving might better support democratic values and promote justice. Though we may laud wealthy individuals who give away their money for society’s...
Lucy Bernholz: NFPs Face Critical Crossroads in an Age of Data
Lucy Bernholz, director of the Digital Civil Society Lab, is featured in Generosity Magazine with a piece on the risks of digital data management for nonprofit organizations. She argues that civil society may hold the potential solution to alleviate the burden. The digital age has made the work of nonprofits tremendously efficient, as collecting and sharing is only a click...
Spotlight Series: Ling Han
Stanford PACS launches a spotlight series featuring the center’s research scholars and associates. Learn about their research, motivations, and the impact they bring to improve philanthropy, strengthen civil society, and effect social change. Each month features a new research fellow at Stanford PACS. These individuals are postdoctoral and Ph.D. scholars, or center associates, whose research contributes extensively to Stanford PACS labs...
Nonprofit Management Institute – September 12 – 14, 2018
Stanford Social Innovation Review‘s Nonprofit Management Institute occurs September 12 – 14, 2018 at Stanford University. This year’s featured theme is “Toward Real Change: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.” The conference brings respected scholars exploring the latest research and thinking on the root causes and most promising solutions to issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion; notable leaders of organizations working to...
Rob Reich on Stakes of Higher Education
Rob Reich, faculty co-director of Stanford PACS, recently participated in a discussion about America’s diminishing trust in higher education and potential ways to reverse this pattern. The talk was held at The Aspen Institute with leaders from other top universities. As panel members unravel the debate on higher education’s current state–or even necessity–they propose methods through which institutions can help reorient...
Best of Luck to our Postdoctoral Fellows
This year, Stanford PACS says goodbye to six postdoctoral fellows who are moving to new faculty positions across the globe. This is bittersweet news for the center, which hosted these fellows as part of the Digital Civil Society Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Stanford PACS Postdoctoral Fellowship programs. Stanford PACS is honored to share their new destinations and hope to stay connected...