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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...
Participate in Philanthropy Research with the Effective Philanthropy Learning Initiative
The Effective Philanthropy Learning Initiative at Stanford PACS requests your participation in a decision-making study. If you have a combined annual income greater than $100,000, or an equivalent access to assets, and have donated $1,000 or more to nonprofits in the last 12 months, please click below for a quick 10 minute survey. This is one of the Effective Philanthropy Learning Initiative’s...
Current Stanford Senior Serves as Teaching Assistant for PACS Course This Spring
Stanford senior Alexis Kallen has traveled the world for study and research. This spring quarter, she stays active as a teaching assistant for “Theories and Practices of Civil Society, Philanthropy, and the Nonprofit Sector” offered by Stanford PACS. Read more about this remarkable student here.
History of Fake News by Former PACS Fellow – Mike Ananny
At USC, former Stanford PACS fellow, Mike Ananny is featured in Five Minutes with Mike Ananny: On the history of fake news, challenges for journalists covering news today. Hear his thoughts about, “How ‘fake news’ is not something new but has been around for a long time, and how journalists can overcome the reporting challenges in today’s political climate by understanding...
Education Policy Influenced by Large Foundations: Media Turns to Former PACS PhD Fellow, Tompkins-Stange
Megan Tompkins-Stange interprets shifts in education based on influential foundation signals. Former Stanford PACS PhD Fellow, now a University of Michigan faculty member at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Tompkins-Stange explores how public policy in the education sector is influenced by foundations. In particular, her work on the Gates Foundation has been featured in multiple publications of...
Groundbreaking Research is Recognized
Co-directors, Johanna Mair and Christian Seelos, from the Global Innovation for Impact Lab at Stanford PACS, have won the Terry McAdam Book Award. Their groundbreaking research highlighted in their book, Innovation and Scaling for Impact: How Effective Social Enterprises Do It, reviews how innovation can successfully be enacted in social enterprises and provides guides for action as well as recommendations to build knowledge...
More Data. More Lessons.
Caitriona Fay, National Manager of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Services at Perpetual Ltd., shares her thoughts on the data challenges to nonprofits after the Digital Impact World Tour stop in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in July. This year’s visit from the team from Stanford’s Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) saw the consolidation of lessons around how the power of digital is changing not only our non-profit sector...
Business Gurus Shortlisted for Oscars of Management Thinking
We’re excited to announce that Johanna Mair and Christian Seelos, co-authors of the book, Innovation and Scaling for Impact, have been shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Innovation Award, which recognizes thinkers who have contributed the most to our understanding of innovation over the last two years. The event celebrates the very best in global business leaders! You can read the full list of...
Rob Reich among the most influential in shaping education policy
The American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., released its annual list of 200 national education scholars who are contributing most substantially to discussions on schools and schooling policy and practices. Among them was Stanford PACS Faculty Co-Director Rob Reich. Twenty scholars from Stanford, including 15 from the Graduate School of Education, are among those recognized. LINDA DARLING-HAMMOND, professor emerita of education,...