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Polarization and Social Change Lab Announces Field Test Grant Winners

October 31st, 2023

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...

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The Faults in Our Macro Models, and How to Fix Them

During a breakout session at the latest Stanford PACS Philanthropy Innovation Summit, Mike Kubzansky shared a fact that elicited gasps in the room: The Penn Wharton Budget Model, one of the leading tools designed to provide policymakers with accurate analyses of the fiscal impact of various public policies, is based...

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Digital Civil Society Lab Announces 2023-24 Cohort of Practitioner Fellows

January 13th, 2023

Five social sector leaders to develop research and tools to benefit global civil society The Digital Civil Society Lab (DCSL) and the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) are pleased to announce our new joint cohort of Practitioner Fellows for 2023-24 under the DCSL Practitioner Fellowship and...

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...

Philanthropy Summit Speakers List 2023

Plenary Session Speakers José Andrés José Andrés is Chairman & CEO of the José Andrés Group, a diverse array of restaurant concepts across the US, and Founder of World Central Kitchen.  José launched World Central Kitchen following the 2020 Haiti earthquake to provide food to those affected by natural and...

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Dermot O’Gorman

Visiting Scholar, Digital Civil Society Lab 

Dermot is a global sustainable development leader with 25 years’ experience in envisioning, ideating, and implementing solutions to protect our wildlife and environment for current and future generations. He has worked with WWF for more than two decades, serving as the CEO of WWF-Australia, WWF-Pacific, and WWF-China. He also holds...

Stanford PACS 2021: A Special Progress Report

As we weathered 2021 and the challenges that COVID-19 and the capitol riots posed to our personal, professional and civic lives, the Stanford PACS community maintained a unique dedication to our founding idea—assembling a diverse, dedicated community of researchers and leaders to thoughtfully probe both new and entrenched problems that...

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Stanford PACS Announces Winter 2022 Small Grant Winners

March 8th, 2022

Stanford PACS is excited to share our four Small Grant winners: Angela Lee, Hanna Folz, and Kimya Loder. The Small Grants program provides undergraduate and graduate students with the opportunity, on a quarterly basis, to fund research projects in the areas of philanthropy and civil society. As part of the...

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Book Release: SYSTEM ERROR

September 7th, 2021

Where Big Tech Went Wrong And How We Can Reboot Authored by Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami & Jeremy M. Weinstein A forward-thinking manifesto from three Stanford professors—experts who have worked at ground zero of the tech revolution for decades—which reveals how Big Tech’s obsession with optimization and efficiency has sacrificed...

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Stanford University Press Launches Stanford Social Innovation Review Books

July 21st, 2021

Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR), the pre-eminent publication of Stanford PACS, is pleased to announce the creation of a new book series in partnership with Stanford University Press (SUP): Stanford Social Innovation Review Books. The series will be published as part of the Stanford Business Books imprint, allowing  Stanford Social...