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Making the Biggest Difference You Can
The Effective Philanthropy Learning Initiative (EPLI) is committed, above all, to supporting wise stewardship of resources. With the many human and environmental crises before us, the multiplicity of worthy causes to give to, and the sincere desire of many donors to do great good, there are a few core practices of effective grantmaking that our experience shows consistently improve impact:...
Polarization and Social Change Lab Announces Field Test Grant Winners
The Polarization and Social Change Lab (PaSCL) at Stanford PACS is pleased to announce the winners of its inaugural Bridging Divides & Strengthening Democracy Field Test Grants. Building on the findings from the Strengthening Democracy Challenge, the unique grant program supports field tests of interventions designed to reduce support for undemocratic practices, partisan violence, and/or partisan animosity. The Strengthening Democracy...
Welcoming Jared and Marcia to the GCSSD team!
The GCSSD lab is excited to announce two of our newest members to the team, Jared Furuta and Marcia Xiyu Yang! We’re thrilled to have two talented individuals bring a wealth of experience and expertise to our lab and we can’t wait to see the positive impact they’ll make. Learn more about Jared and Marcia below. Jared FurutaPostdoc Fellow Jared...
Tom Nachtigal Receives Knight-Hennessy Award
Tom Nachtigal, from Rishon-Lezion, Israel, is pursuing a PhD in international and comparative education at Stanford Graduate School of Education. She graduated magna cum laude from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a bachelor’s degree in law and international relations. She holds an LLM (cum laude) from Columbia Law School and an EdM from Harvard Graduate School of Education. She...
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...