Start-Up (2000-2001) |
2000 |
- First public conference: High-Impact Philanthropy, focused on maximizing philanthropic impact.
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2001 |
First two Executive Programs for social sector leaders:
- The Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders (EPNL), a first-of-its-kind endeavor that will become the center’s flagship leadership development program.
- High-Impact Philanthropy (HIP), focused on helping individual donors maximize philanthropic impact.
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Integration (2002-2003) |
2002 |
Dale Miller, social psychologist and professor of organizational behavior, joins as faculty co-director
Stanford GSB programs find new potential and synergies by becoming part of the Center:
- The business school’s Alumni Consulting Team (ACT) integrates into the center, offering pro bono management consulting services to nonprofits around the Bay Area.
- The three-decade old MBA academic and leadership development program, the Public Management and Social Innovation Program (PM/SI), becomes part of the center and continues to offer its unique Certificate in Public Management and Social Innovation while expanding its activities.
The Center launches new initiatives:
- Stanford Educational Leadership Institute (SELI): A collaboration with Stanford School of Education focused on bringing knowledge from the business and education fields to support current and emerging education industry leaders
- Stanford Project on Emerging Nonprofits (SPEN): the center’s first major research initiative—a five-year study that examined how nonprofit leaders appropriate, adapt, or reject management ideas and practices as they create and shape social purpose institutions
And expands its program portfolio:
- Strategy for Nonprofit Organizations (SNO), a team-based Executive Education program focused on mission and strategy
- Executive Program for Educational Leaders (EPEL), an executive program developed by the SELI initiative for school leadership teams engaged in redesigning school districts
- Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders-Arts (EPNL-Arts), a leadership development program created in collaboration with National Arts Strategies and tailored to the unique dynamics of arts organizations
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2003 |
The center develops its offerings:
- Building Capacity in School Systems: The Center’s first institute organized in partnership with Grantmakers for Education
- Stanford Social Innovation Review: A new quarterly magazine presents the best in research and practice-based knowledge to help those who do the important work of improving society do it even better
- Environmental Sustainability Initiative: The MBA curriculum integrates environmental concepts both in core courses and via the creation of new courses on environmental sustainability.
- Philanthropy Discussions Series: A multiyear speaker series, hosted in collaboration with the Stanford Haas Center for Public Service, engages practitioners and academics on the public obligations of philanthropy.
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Growth (2004-2009) |
2004 |
- Effective Disruption Management: A one-day seminar features business and nonprofit leaders and academics around lessons in humanitarian disaster relief
- Leading Constructive Public Engagement: A Stanford Educational Leadership Institute (SELI) conference brings 16 school district teams to focus on district leadership
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2005 |
- Executive Education for Philanthropy Leaders (EPPL): A new executive education program focused on the strategy and management of grantmaking institutions.
- Bridging the Gap — Leading Social Innovation Across Sectors, the Stanford/Net Impact conference attracts a record-breaking 1,300 MBA students from across the United States
- Stanford Project on the Evolution of Nonprofits (SPEN) publishes its report, and shares its findings at conferences with foundation and nonprofit executives
- The Nonprofit Innovation Award, a competition cosponsored by the Center with Amazon.com grants prizes to innovative nonprofits in the United States
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2006 |
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2007 |
The Center launches new programs:
- Conversations in Philanthropy, an anthology on the purposes, accountability, and practices of 21st-century philanthropy
- Socially and Environmentally Responsible Supply Chain Program: A new research initiative launched at the inaugural Social and Environmental Supply Chain conference in collaboration with the Stanford Global Supply Chain Forum
- Business Strategies for Environmental Sustainability (BSES): A new executive education program for leaders in business, government, nongovernmental organizations, and political action organizations delivers strategies to gain competitive advantage through environmentally sustainable practices
Solving the world’s toughest social and environmental problems favors leaders with an ability to bridge academic disciplines and tap into expertise spanning multiple areas. Stanford offers the opportunity to combine and strengthen the academic experience through the following joint degrees for MBA students:
- Master of Public Policy/MBA for students interested in pursuing careers in public policy or at the intersection of business and government. Offered in conjunction with the School of Humanities & Sciences
- MS in Environment & Resources/MBA for students interested in a career addressing environmental issues. Offered in conjunction with the School of Earth Sciences
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2008 |
- Corporate Social Responsibility program (CSR): The Center’s first international executive program launched in collaboration with ESADE business school explores new ways in which companies can incorporate societal and environmental perspectives into strategic thinking
- Executive Program for Social Entrepreneurs (EPSE): The sixth program in the center’s Executive Education portfolio tailored to the needs and challenges facing successful social entrepreneurs. EPSE is designed to help social entrepreneurs take their enterprises and innovative models to the next level by refining their ideas and leveraging their impact
- The Stanford Social Innovation Review publishes a seminal article defining Social Innovation
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2009 |
- Social Innovation Fellowship: A yearlong program provides a stipend to Stanford MBA students or teams to enable them to devote 100% of their first year after graduation building their vision for social change into a viable social enterprise
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New Directions (2010-present) |
2010 |
- The Certificate in Public Management and Social Innovation for MSx and MBA students is revised to provide a richer academic experience aligned to interests in international development, education, healthcare, energy & the environment, social entrepreneurship, corporate responsibility and ethics, public policy and nonprofit management. The certificate requirements include a practicum and ensure students are better prepared for and demonstrate more commitments to solving social and environmental problems.
- The Stanford Social Innovation Review, a venture the Center seeded and started-up over the past 5 years, transitioned to the Center for Philanthropy and Civic Society at Stanford where it will expand and flourish
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2011 |
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2013 |
- Impact Labs is created to support the exploration by students of nonprofit board governance, impact funding, and responsible business through the eyes of leaders in the field who serve as their mentors.
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2014 |
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2015 |
- The Stanford GSB Impact Fund is created.
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