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The Philanthropy Toolkit
The Stanford PACS Philanthropy Toolkit The toolkit is a practical step-by-step resource designed to help you, your family, and your advisors engage in thoughtful conversations, be effective in your charitable giving, and anchor your philanthropy around what most deeply inspires you. Toolkit Modules If you wish to cite the Toolkit,...
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Renata Avila
Renata Avila was a Non-Resident Fellow at the Digital Civil Society Lab in Partnership with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (2019-2020, 2020-2021). Renata, (Guatemalan), Executive Director Fundación Ciudadanía Inteligente, is an international Human Rights lawyer, specialising in the next wave of technological challenges to preserve and...
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Tawana Petty
Tawana Petty was a Non-Resident Fellow at the Digital Civil Society Lab (2019-2020, 2020-2021). Tawana is a mother, social justice organizer, youth advocate, poet, and author. She is intricately involved in water rights advocacy, data and digital privacy education, and racial justice and equity work. She is the National Organizing...
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Digital Impact: Reflections from Brisbane
On July 29 More than 100 Australian social sector leaders spent a beautiful Saturday in Brisbane discussing the possibilities and responsibilities of digital civil society. Several themes dominated the day: the importance of the “people” part of digital data, the ways digital technologies can highlight and even amplify existing social...
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POLISCI 137R. Justice at Home and Abroad: Civil Rights in the 21st Century
Justice, the philosopher John Rawls believed, is the first virtue of social institutions. But justice is difficult to define and still more difficult to achieve. In this class, we will consider how three core ideals animate most theories of justice: freedom, equality, and security. The U.S. Constitution spells out the...
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GSBGEN 367 – Problem Solving for Social Change
GSB graduates will play important roles in solving many of today’s and tomorrow’s major societal problems—such as improving educational and health outcomes, conserving energy, and reducing global poverty—that call for actions by nonprofit, business, and hybrid organizations as well as governments. This course teaches skills and bodies of knowledge relevant...
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A curated collection of readings that have informed the research, writing and thinking of the Digital Civil Society Lab team and fellows. Democracy and publics Alexander, Jeffrey C. (2006). “The Civil Sphere.” Oxford:Oxford University Press Calhoun, C. (1998). “The public good as a social and cultural project. In W.W. Powell and E....