Through research on nonprofits and the communities they serve, the Civic Life of Cities Lab brings together scholars from around the world to understand the organizational building blocks of a vibrant civil society.
The Civic Life of Cities Lab (CLC) started at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS) in 2017 and has evolved into a virtual community of researchers at over a dozen leading academic institutions investigating these questions based on the data of our original CLC teams in seven global cities: San Francisco, Seattle, Shenzhen, Singapore, Sydney, Taipei, and Vienna.
Read more about our approach, publications, and cities.
Why study cities?