Director, Stanford PACS Digital Civil Society Lab
Lucy Bernholz is a senior research scholar at Stanford University’s Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society and director of the Digital Civil Society Lab. The Digital Civil Society Lab hosts an online community and resources called Digital Impact that supports people and organizations using digital tools and data safely, ethically, and effectively to achieve social missions. Bernholz is the author of numerous articles and books about civil society, philanthropy, and technology, including the annual Blueprint Series on Philanthropy and Digital Civil Society, the 2010 publication Disrupting Philanthropy, her award-winning blog, philanthropy2173.com, and her 2004 book Creating Philanthropic Capital Markets: The Deliberate Evolution. She is the author of How We Give Now: Philanthropy by the Rest of Us, co-editor of Philanthropy in Democratic Societies, and co-editor of Digital Technologies and Democracy Theory. She has a BA from Yale University, and an MA and PhD from Stanford University.