Stanford University
For Support Of The Stanford Center On Philanthropy And Civil Society
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Amount$499,505
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Program
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Date Awarded7/17/2012
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Term13.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Strategies
Overview
Social change requires not only that high quality research exist, but that it get into the hands of the people who need it. We recommend a grant to the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society that touches both sides of that equation. The Center promotes academic research on philanthropy and engages students, faculty, and practitioners about ways in which philanthropic institutions, nonprofit organizations, and other sectors of society solve social problems. The Center recently acquired Hewlett grantee the Stanford Social Innovation Review. The Review was founded and incubated at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and has grown quickly into the field’s leader for distributing high quality content on a wide variety of social innovation topics to social change leaders around the world. With this grant we would formally merge our previously separate funding of the Stanford Center and the Review. Over the years the Center has evolved from a small experiment by two sociology professors to a significant force at the University, with affiliations with five schools and twenty departments and capped off with the acquisition of the Stanford Social Innovation Review.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
siepr.stanford.edu
Address
366 Galvez Street, Stanford, CA, 94305, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for support of the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society
The Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society is an interdisciplinary research center for students, scholars, and practitioners to actively examine, debate, and critique the interaction between philanthropy and civil society and help inform public opinion, policies, and professional practices to advance the public good. The center provides research fellowships for students, funding for faculty research, and an array of courses and gatherings for different audiences. It is also home to the Stanford Social Innovation Review, one of the social sector’s preeminent magazines and online journals. This grant provides program support as part of the Knowledge for Better Philanthropy strategy.
for support of the Regulation, Evaluation, and Governance Lab
The Regulation, Evaluation, and Governance Lab (RegLab) at Stanford University partners with government agencies to design and evaluate programs, policies, and technologies that modernize government and restore trust in governance. RegLab is an interdisciplinary team of legal experts, data scientists, social scientists, and engineers who are passionate about building an evidence base and high-impact demonstration projects for better government. (Substrategy: Executive Branch)
for the Protecting and Reforming the U.S. Civil Service workshop
Stanford University's Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) bridges the worlds of scholarship and practice to understand and foster the conditions for effective representative governance; promote balanced and sustainable economic growth; and establish the rule of law. Its faculty, researchers, and students analyze the ways in which democracy and development are challenged by authoritarian resurgence, misinformation, and the perils of a changing climate. This grant supports the center’s workshop on Protecting and Reforming the U.S. Civil Service.
