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Juneteenth: A Debt of Gratitude
Juneteenth, the day commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, has always been a day of immense historical and cultural significance. Its recent designation as a federal holiday is a testament to progress and simultaneously a reminder of our nation’s painful history. We owe a debt of gratitude and a moment of recognition to the important work of...
Call for High-Earning Individuals to Participate in Research
A team of researchers at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS) is studying the ways that high-income individuals develop professional identities, think about their financial capacity, and decide whether and how to participate in charitable giving. We are looking for individuals to participate in our research efforts by agreeing to be interviewed by a member of the...
PACS Postdoctoral Scholars 2021-22 Announced
Stanford PACS is excited to announce our new cohort of Postdoctoral Scholars for the academic year 2021-22. These researchers come from a wide array of backgrounds and disciplines, including Psychology, Political Science, Computer Science, and Sociology, which each provide their own unique insights into the problems tackled here at PACS. We can’t wait to see how they will further their...
Stanford PACS Announces Spring 2021 Small Grant Winners
Stanford PACS is excited to share our three Small Grant winners: Matt Brown, Helena Roy, and Adrian Blattner. The Small Grants program provides undergraduate and graduate students with the opportunity, on a quarterly basis, to fund research projects in the areas of philanthropy and civil society. As part of the award experience, these researchers are also welcomed into the larger...
SSIR Launches Global Development Podcast
Stanford PACS’s Stanford Social Innovation Review is launching a new podcast Uncharted Ground: Journeys in Social Innovation. Hosted by award-winning journalist and nonprofit director Jonathan Levine the show will follow the programs and people on the ground who are tackling humanity’s biggest problems – and improving the lives of those in need. In this tumultuous era of pandemics and societal...
Community Solutions wins MacArthur Foundation’s 100&Change competition for a 100 million USD grant
Community Solutions, an organization working to measurably end homelessness throughout U.S. communities, received a $100 million dollar grant from the MacArthur Foundation as a winner of the 100&Change competition. The group, founded in 2011 by veteran homelessness activist Rosanne Haggerty, uses a data-driven methodology to implement their racially equitable homeless response system, the “Built for Zero” community network. They consistently...
Statement of Solidarity with AAPI Community
Today we stand together in pain and loss, in solidarity with our Asian American colleagues, friends, family, fellow citizens and human beings. There is no denying the impact of the shooting this week in Atlanta. Regardless of what we learn about the shooter’s intent, we must acknowledge the toll that hate and violence is having on Asian American communities, especially...
Stanford PACS 2020: A Special Progress Report
As a research center with a mission to develop and share knowledge to improve philanthropy, strengthen civil society, and address societal challenges, the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) continued to expand the breadth and depth of our scholarly research in 2020, despite, and in many instances in response to, the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to an...
Stanford PACS China Social Innovation Summit 2020: New Connectivity Creating New Momentum
The 9th annual China-based Social Innovation Summit, hosted by Stanford PACS and the Leping Foundation, took place in November 2020, focused on the central theme of “New Connectivity Creating New Momentum.” The Summit’s programming explored three specific pathways to impact in the post-pandemic world: Making Business for Good the New Normal, Digital Technology for Human Benefit, and New Power &...
Democracy and the Digital Transformation of Our Lives
Every citizen is aware that digital technologies have transformed our individual and collective lives. But democratic theorists have been slow to take stock of this transformation and to trace how democratic theory and institutions should respond. The new book Digital Technology and Democratic Theory, edited by Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Associate Director Rob Reich, Stanford Digital Civil Society Lab Director Lucy Bernholz, and Yale professor Hélène Landemore, brings together...