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DCSL Research Director to Join NYU Faculty
After five years at the Digital Civil Society Lab (DCSL), Toussaint Nothias will take up a faculty position at NYU this fall. Toussaint first joined DCSL in 2018 as a postdoc. He started researching Facebook’s Free Basics, a globally widespread initiative to provide supposedly “free” internet access throughout the Global South. His work called attention to the limits of this...
2022-23 Practitioner Fellows Final Showcase
The Digital Civil Society Lab (DCSL) and the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity’s (CCSRE) 2022-23 Practitioner Fellows met on Friday, June 23 to present their current fellowship projects exploring digital rights, privacy, policy, and governance; intersections among race, media, and digital systems; the use and impact of artificial intelligence (AI) in Africa; and the practice of healing...
New Position: Program and Education Manager, Effective Philanthropy Learning Initiative, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society
The School of Humanities and Sciences (H&S) is the foundation of a liberal arts education at Stanford. The school encompasses 23 departments and 25 interdisciplinary programs. H&S is home to fundamental and applied research, where free, open, and critical inquiry is pursued across disciplines. As the university’s largest school, H&S is the foundation of a Stanford undergraduate education, no matter...
New Position: Editor in Chief, Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR)
If you’re an experienced Editor with an interest in social impact and looking for an innovative, entrepreneurial and collaborative environment that is backed by the integrity and credibility of one of the world’s foremost institutions, we invite you to apply to become the next Editor-in-Chief of the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) is an award-winning media property that covers...
Spring 2023 Small Grants Recipients
Anaïs Voşki is a quadrilingual PhD student in Environment & Resources (E-IPER) at Stanford University. Building on her prior work with the overview effect and astronauts’ pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors, her doctoral research in environmental psychology centers on the affective and behavioral sciences nexus from an interdisciplinary planetary perspective. Her current research explores ecological emotions, i.e. eco-emotions, choice architecture designs...
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 Innovation Review. SSIR in many ways exemplifies the founding idea of our Center...
Civil Society and Sustainability Conference
Civil society actors are central to achieving sustainable development. Nonprofits and activists, for example, influence public policy, corporate practices, and individual behaviors at local, national, and international levels. They are also frontline workers in efforts towards solving environmental problems and are often at the forefront of issues of environmental justice. Further, philanthropy — by individuals and large organizations, alike —...
New Position: Events & Partnerships, Manager, Stanford PACS
The School of Humanities and Sciences (H&S) is the foundation of a liberal arts education at Stanford. The school encompasses 23 departments and 25 interdisciplinary programs. H&S is home to fundamental and applied research, where free, open, and critical inquiry is pursued across disciplines. As the university’s largest school, H&S serves as the foundation of a Stanford undergraduate education no...
New Position: Community Manager, Digital Civil Society Lab
The Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford PACS seeks a creative and resourceful professional to provide consulting support to an ongoing collaborative initiative, The Upgrade Initiative. The Community Manager is a part-time consulting role that will report to the lab’s Research Director and provide lead facilitation and coordination of the Initiative. The Upgrade Initiative is a collaborative effort to integrate...
Education for Philanthropy Professionals Course
The EPLI team is excited to announce that it will be hosting its Education for Philanthropy Professionals (EPP) course this Spring. This six-day course provides participants with an in-depth learning experience led by Stanford PACS’s team of researchers and outside experts in the field. Participants will leave the course with the essential tools and knowledge they need to practice effective...