Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, The Graduate Center, CUNY

05/27/2022

We're recruiting the next cohort of the Emerging Leaders International Fellows Program! An immersive ten-week program focused on community philanthropy and grantmaking practices around the globe will take place in person in New York City.

Apply by June 13 to be in NYC from September 12 - November 18, 2022. Visit us online for program description, eligibility requirements, selection, awards, and application form:

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01/25/2022

5th Avenue and 34th street - things remain quiet at the physical location of the CUNY Graduate Center and our Center, but activities are slowly resuming...

11/17/2021

Are you a GC student studying the funding or activities of foundations like Ford, Rockefeller, Hewlett, Luce and others? If so, consider applying to a fellowship on public history of philanthropy, a Spring 2022 history course and funding for archival research! Deadline to apply is November 22:

The Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society at the CUNY Graduate Center is offering up to eight $1,250 fellowships for

09/28/2021

Mark your calendars! The Society and Protest Workshop is meeting on October 20, November 17 and December 1 this semester. Topics include civil society mobilization in Central Asia, stigmatized outsiders fighting for recognition, and when a cause is institutionalized as a field.

08/19/2021

The Society and Protest Workshop is back!

This semester, we're looking for folks to share research in progress on the theme of "Insider-Outsider Strategies.

See details of the call for contributions here: https://sapw.commons.gc.cuny.edu

01/25/2021

Send your abstracts by Friday to present on precarity at the Society and Protest Workshop this semester!

SPRING 2021 Call for Contributions Precarity: Being on the knife’s edge between wellbeing and disaster. 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic may have generalized the feelings of uncertainty that underpin precarity, but the material conditions of precarity—poverty, famine, warfare—did not become gen...

01/11/2021

The Society and Protest Workshop will address the theme of "Precarity" in Spring 2021. Submit your proposals to present by January 29!

SPRING 2021 Call for Contributions Precarity: Being on the knife’s edge between wellbeing and disaster. 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic may have generalized the feelings of uncertainty that underpin precarity, but the material conditions of precarity—poverty, famine, warfare—did not become gen...

09/18/2020

The first Society and Protest Workshop is a panel discussion with scholars Donatella Della Porta, A.K. Thompson and Christian Davenport that will interrogate interactions between civil society, social movements, and violence in our contemporary period. Join us! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/panel-discussionviolence-and-civil-society-tickets-121286903393

08/31/2020

The Civil Society Workshop returns, in collaboration with the Politics and Protest Workshop! The new SOCIETY AND PROTEST WORKSHOP is seeking papers and presentations for the Fall 2020's theme on violence and protest, due 9/14:

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05/12/2020

We're pleased that our experts Barry Gaberman, William Moody and Merrill Sovner could contribute their knowledge on pooled funding to NGOsource's ExpertEASE!

05/11/2020

More research presented at the Civil Society Workshop has been published! Congratulations, Fumitake Fukui!

As constraints on government funding to public universities become a trend in higher education internationally, clarifying the impact of government policies on donor behavior from a comparative perspective is an issue of higher education research. This paper aims to explore the impact of government....