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Rob Reich among the most influential in shaping education policy
The American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., released its annual list of 200 national education scholars who are contributing most substantially to discussions on schools and schooling policy and practices. Among them was Stanford PACS Faculty Co-Director Rob Reich. Twenty scholars from Stanford, including 15 from the Graduate School of Education, are among those recognized. LINDA DARLING-HAMMOND, professor emerita of education,...
Video: Social media and social change
Civil society is challenged to demonstrate its impact. Network and linguistic analyses of webpages reveal intense struggles among governments, businesses, and nonprofits to define effectiveness. Watch the video of this lecture by Stanford PACS faculty co-director Woody Powell.
Christian Seelos on innovation
Will innovation kill us? Our visiting scholar Christian Seelos discussed this question on the radio show Philosophy Talk on November 15, 2015 to discuss this question. Listen to this show for free here: https://beta.prx.org/stories/164857
Getting Beyond Better audio
The audio recording from Getting Beyond Better with Sally Osberg is now available.
Philanthropy Summit videos
Selected Summit videos are now available on the PACS website. You can watch videos and explore Summit-related content and new videos and transcripts will be periodically added to this page. Visit the Summit recap page here.
Stanford PACS hosts Sally Osberg
Stanford PACS will launch the book Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works with a public event featuring Sally R. Osberg on October 13
Paul Brest discusses impact investing
Social impact investing takes many forms these days. Investors can bring capital to worthy causes that otherwise wouldn’t be funded by investing in privately held businesses, or engage with other shareholders to put pressure on less socially motivated companies. They, too, can make so-called “sacrificial” investments in innovative social enterprises by accepting below-market, risk-adjusted returns as the price for doing...
Paul Brest teaches online course
Essentials of Nonprofit Strategy to be offered this fall.
PACS scholars on effective altruism
Reich, Brest, and Saunders-Hastings weigh in for a Boston Review special.
Tocqueville for today’s world
Emma Saunders-Hastings on Tocqueville and philanthropy in the current economy