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Philanthropy and Digital Civil Society: Blueprint 2025
Philanthropy and Digital Civil Society: Blueprint 2025 is the 16th annual industry forecast about the ways we use private resources for public benefit in the digital age. Each year, the Blueprint provides an overview of the current landscape, points to big ideas that matter, and directs your attention to horizons where you can expect some important breakthroughs in the coming year. The...
Updates from the Digital Civil Society Lab
Dear Friends and Colleagues, After ten years of research, teaching, convenings, and investing in postdoctoral scholars and community-based fellows, the Digital Civil Society Lab (DCSL) will be paring down its operations over the 2024-25 academic year and sunsetting in June 2025. No research initiative is designed to last forever, and DCSL has had a glorious decade. With the departures of...
Empowering Students with Real-life Experiences
Read about the Spring 2024 course Philanthropy for Sustainable Development here.
DCSL Practitioner Fellows Project Showcase
Increasing the quality and equity of AI systems. Developing a practice and community for data healing. Strengthening the role of African civil society in interrogating the digitalization of food and agriculture. Members of the 2022-23 and 2023-24 cohorts of Digital Civil Society Lab Technology & Racial Equity Practitioner Fellows shared findings on these and other research topics in June, when...
How Trust Works and To Whom It Is Owed
PACS Associate Directors of Research Aaron Horvath and Micah McElroy published “How Trust Works and To Whom It Is Owed” as a response to Bridgespan’s essay “The Trust-Based Philanthropy Conundrum: Toward Donor-Doer Relationships That Drive Impact” as part of Bridgespan’s Perspectives from the Field.
Pre-doctoral Research Fellow in Organizational Sociology and Social Innovation
Supervisors: Christof Brandtner (emlyon business school) and Woody Powell (Stanford University) Timeline: Starting in summer or fall 2024. The InvEnt Research Center on Innovation & Entrepreneurship at emlyon business school, in collaboration with the Civic Life of Cities Lab (CLC) affiliated with the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, seeks to hire a dedicated, highly motivated, and analytically minded...
Digital listening techniques for reproductive health in Honduras
The project, conducted in Honduras, focused on using digital listening techniques to better understand online conversations and trajectories related to emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs) in the country. In collaboration with the Centro de Derechos de Mujeres (CDM), a Honduran organization, and Las Lupas, the digital research laboratory of Inspiratorio, we investigated how women express their fears and questions when seeking...
New Stanford Study Finds 92% of Americans Underestimate the Benefits of Unions, Correcting Misperceptions Can Boost Support and Engagement
Findings from the Polarization and Social Change Lab at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society suggest that informing the American public about the material benefits of unionization could increase support for unions, interest in joining unions, and support for pro-labor policies. How accurate are Americans’ perceptions of the benefits associated with joining a union? And how does that...
5 Ways Philanthropy Can Build the Rising Generation’s Financial Skills
Author Abby Axelrod-Wunderman, Philanthropic Director, Family Office Services, Foundations and Endowment The good of philanthropy can extend beyond serving your communities. It can build the business and financial acumen of your children and other family members. Philanthropy offers lessons in money management and organization. It reinforces the value of work. It also enhances professional skills such as communication and accountability....
Civil Society and Sustainability Conference Paper Submission
Civil Society and Sustainability ConferenceJune 3-5, 2024, Stanford UniversityPaper Submissions Solving the world’s greatest sustainability challenges depends on active engagement by civil society actors. Nonprofits, philanthropies, and advocacy groups play an important role in shaping policy agendas on topics related to sustainable development and contribute to innovative solutions to address problems like climate change and mitigate their impact on the...