I’ve been writing about the role of philanthropy in democracy for the past few years. Through my work with the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, I’ve come to understand a little better the work of one significant component of American philanthropy: private philanthropic foundations. Foundations are institutional oddities in democratic societies. They are [...]
Categories: Boston Review,PACS,Research
The Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society will once more appoint two post-doctoral fellows for a 1 or 2 year fellowship. Full description of the fellowship is below, and information about how to apply is here. Postdoctoral Fellowship Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society Application deadline: January 9th, 2013 Stanford PACS invites applications [...]
Categories: Jobs,PACS,Research,Uncategorized
Wendy Kopp, the founder and CEO of Teach For America, will be visiting campus tomorrow, Wednesday, Jan. 11. She’ll be delivering a lecture as part of the BASES program on social entrepreneurship. And she’s doing an event, in conversation with me, at 3pm, co-sponsored by the Program on Ethics in Society and the Center on [...]
Categories: Ethics in Society,Event,PACS
The Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society is a relatively new outfit here at Stanford. Its mission is to cultivate research from any corner of the university on issues related to philanthropy, nonprofits and nongovernmental orgs, or civil society/associational life. We understand the subject matter quite broadly. For the past four years we have been [...]
Jumo is a new and much heralded social networking site for stimulating, coordinating, and occasionally funding social change. It was created by someone with a sterling track record in social media innovation. Chris Hughes was a co-founder of Facebook, departing the booming company to join the Obama campaign as official social networking impresario. When Jumo [...]
Categories: PACS
The Stanford University Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS) announced on Tuesday its acquisition of the award-winning Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR). I serve as faculty co-director of PACS, a center that has seen huge growth since its founding several years ago. Bringing SSIR into our fold will bring us a much wider reach. [...]
Categories: PACS,Uncategorized
The PACS Center will host on Thursday, March 4 an interesting event: Philanthropy in the 21st Century: How Foundations Can Advance the Public Good. 5:00 – 6:30pm Stanford Humanities Center Levinthal Hall Sterling Speirn, the President and CEO of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (yes, the folks who make your breakfast cereal), will deliver the main [...]
Stephanie Strom’s article from Sunday, “Charities Rise, Costing US Billions in Tax Breaks“, which cited some research I conducted with a couple of Stanford students this summer, has elicited some interesting commentary on the web. Princeton’s Stan Katz, a long-standing commentator on philanthropy and the nonprofit sector, posted a reply on the Brainstorm blog of [...]
Tagged: 501c3, Anything Goes, Stan Katz
The IRS approved more than 50,000 new organizations as 501c3 nonprofits in 2008. It has approved more than 50,000 organizations for every year of the past decade, leading to a massive growth in the nonprofit sector. The number of 501c3s has grown by more than 50% in just a decade. What kinds of organizations are [...]
Tagged: 501c3, Anything Goes, nonprofit, PACS