Thanksgiving. Black Friday. Cyber Monday. And now: Giving Tuesday. Tomorrow is the inaugural Giving Tuesday, an effort to create a national day of giving at the start of the holiday season. The media reports widely about the unabashed consumerism of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Giving Tuesday aims to deploy traditional media and social media [...]
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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 [...]
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Felix Salmon kindly put the questions I posted this week about Udacity to its founder, Sebastian Thrun, and wrote up a lengthy post about it here. Thrun helps to explain some of the uncertainty about the relationship between his various employers (Stanford and Google) and his new start-up venture, Udacity. Read the entire piece, as [...]
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Sebastian Thrun has made headlines for a variety of his accomplishments as computer scientist doing groundbreaking work on artificial intelligence. He has long been interested in robotic vehicles, leading the team that developed the car which won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. He is the co-inventor of the Google Street View mapping service and is [...]
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The New York Times is running a Room for Debate forum on whether the federal government should provide a tax credit to families who home school their children. The Fordham Institute chief Checker Finn and Home School Legal Defense Association legal counsel William Estrada are among the contributors. In my contribution to the forum, I [...]
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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. [...]
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Stanford University will host an event on Friday, May 14 on Charles Beitz’s book On the Idea of Human Rights. Discussants include Tim Scanlon, Barbara Herman, Jenny Martinez, and Jim Fearon. Full details below. The event is free and open to the public. If you are interested in attending, please email Kelly Rosellen to register: [...]
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I’ll be participating in an interesting panel in New York City on Tuesday, May 11 on the topic of “Disrupting Philanthropy: Changing the Rules”. Much has been written about the blurring of the boundaries between the non-profit, for-profit, and state sectors. We now have Google.org (for-profit philanthropy), philanthrocapitalism (socially purposed for profits), and foundation-state collaboration [...]
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The New York Times has an interesting article by Amanda M. Fairbanks on Teach For America. She reports on the findings of a recent study by my colleague in the sociology department, Doug McAdam. McAdam finds that TFA corps members, after their two years of teaching, score lower on civic engagement measures than applicants to [...]
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Join 21st century leaders in philanthropy to learn about how they launched successful new philanthropic models impacting society change. Moderated by Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society Executive Director, Kim Meredith. WHEN: Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009, 5:00 – 6:30PM WHERE: Stanford Humanities Center, 424 Santa Teresa Lane Panel will include: Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, Founder Silicon [...]
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