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Nadia Roumani
Nadia Roumani is the Director of Financial Advisor Philanthropy Initiatives at Stanford University’s Effective Philanthropy Learning Initiative, and the Senior Designer of Stanford’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design’s (the d.school) Designing for Social Systems Program. She returned to Stanford in 2012 as an inaugural d.school fellow, and in 2014 was...
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Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
LAURA ARRILLAGA-ANDREESSEN Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen is the Founder and President of the Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Foundation (LAAF), an educational content platform that empowers all individuals to give, live and lead in a way that matters more. Laura is Co-Founder and President of the Marc and Laura Andreessen Foundation. She is Co-President of the Arrillaga Foundation, Co-Founder...
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Polarization and Social Change Lab Announces Field Test Grant Winners
The Polarization and Social Change Lab (PaSCL) at Stanford PACS is pleased to announce the winners of its inaugural Bridging Divides & Strengthening Democracy Field Test Grants. Building on the findings from the Strengthening Democracy Challenge, the unique grant program supports field tests of interventions designed to reduce support for...
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The Faults in Our Macro Models, and How to Fix Them
During a breakout session at the latest Stanford PACS Philanthropy Innovation Summit, Mike Kubzansky shared a fact that elicited gasps in the room: The Penn Wharton Budget Model, one of the leading tools designed to provide policymakers with accurate analyses of the fiscal impact of various public policies, is based...
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Digital Civil Society Lab Announces 2023-24 Cohort of Practitioner Fellows
Five social sector leaders to develop research and tools to benefit global civil society The Digital Civil Society Lab (DCSL) and the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) are pleased to announce our new joint cohort of Practitioner Fellows for 2023-24 under the DCSL Practitioner Fellowship and...
Stanford PACS 2022: A Special Progress Report
2022 was a momentous year for Stanford PACS. Like many other organizations in our ecosystem, we were fine tuning a new modus operandi for a world that has changed profoundly and permanently while preparing to celebrate a major milestone — the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Stanford Social...
Philanthropy Summit Speakers List 2023
Plenary Session Speakers José Andrés José Andrés is Chairman & CEO of the José Andrés Group, a diverse array of restaurant concepts across the US, and Founder of World Central Kitchen. José launched World Central Kitchen following the 2020 Haiti earthquake to provide food to those affected by natural and...
GIIL flagship program
GIIL has been a founding partner of the IDIA Training Course on Managing Innovation for Impact. This training course, with the generous support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has been building the capacity of innovation managers from various parts of the ecosystem since 2018. With excellent participant feedback...
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Dermot O’Gorman
Dermot is a global sustainable development leader with 25 years’ experience in envisioning, ideating, and implementing solutions to protect our wildlife and environment for current and future generations. He has worked with WWF for more than two decades, serving as the CEO of WWF-Australia, WWF-Pacific, and WWF-China. He also holds...
Stanford PACS 2021: A Special Progress Report
As we weathered 2021 and the challenges that COVID-19 and the capitol riots posed to our personal, professional and civic lives, the Stanford PACS community maintained a unique dedication to our founding idea—assembling a diverse, dedicated community of researchers and leaders to thoughtfully probe both new and entrenched problems that...
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Stanford PACS Announces Winter 2022 Small Grant Winners
Stanford PACS is excited to share our four Small Grant winners: Angela Lee, Hanna Folz, and Kimya Loder. 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...
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Book Release: SYSTEM ERROR
Where Big Tech Went Wrong And How We Can Reboot Authored by Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami & Jeremy M. Weinstein A forward-thinking manifesto from three Stanford professors—experts who have worked at ground zero of the tech revolution for decades—which reveals how Big Tech’s obsession with optimization and efficiency has sacrificed...