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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...
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Stanford University Press Launches Stanford Social Innovation Review Books
Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR), the pre-eminent publication of Stanford PACS, is pleased to announce the creation of a new book series in partnership with Stanford University Press (SUP): Stanford Social Innovation Review Books. The series will be published as part of the Stanford Business Books imprint, allowing Stanford Social...
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Nonprofits Need To Balance Professionalization And Formalization With Trust And Community Building
Patricia Bromley is an Associate Professor of Education and, by courtesy, of Sociology at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) at Stanford University. Her work spans a range of fields, including comparative education, organization theory, the sociology of education, and public administration and policy. At the GSE, Bromley teaches courses...
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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...
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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...
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The First Principles Forum convenes founders, early employees, and investors in the technology sector with access to resources from recent IPOs or company acquisitions to advance their thinking on impact and philanthropy. This gathering and community provide opportunities to support and challenge the next generation of philanthropic leaders to think...
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Forum Agenda 1:00 pm WelcomeRoy Bahat — Bloomberg Beta, First Principles Co-chair Flow of the DaySawako Sonoyama Clarin — Stanford PACS My Journey with GivingLaura Arrillaga-Andreessen — Stanford PACS, First Principles Co-chair Our Journey with GivingJen Rubio — AwayStewart Butterfield — SlackModerated by Raylene Yung — Former Facebook and Stripe,...
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DCSL Names Practitioner Fellows 2021-22
The Digital Civil Society Lab (DCSL) and Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) are pleased to announce the 2021 cohort of practitioner fellows which comprises of 14 exceptional social sector leaders working on ideas to benefit civil society. This year’s fellows are working on a range of topics and tools in...
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Reimagining Philanthropy Series, part 2
Lucy Bernholz wrote a five-part series for The Chronicle of Philanthropy exploring what’s next for foundations and nonprofits. The Current Economic Crisis Is an Opportunity to Reset Philanthropic Priorities by Lucy Bernholz, August 31, 2020 The U.S. economy “collapsed” in March and cratered in July, but it was broken well before. I’m not an...