Duke Sanford School of Public Policy

The Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society (CSPCS) researches, analyzes, and promotes philanthropy that consistently produces high impact. CSPCS stimulates communication, collaboration, and problem-solving around pressing issues of public policy and philanthropy.

The Center was formally created in 2008 at the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy (now the Sanford School of Public Policy), Duke University. Edward Skloot, for 18 years the President of the Surdna Foundation in New York City and, before that, the founder of a nonprofit organization focusing on social entrepreneurship, directs the Center. Joel Fleishman, Professor of Law and Public Policy and the motive force behind the Center’s establishment, is the Center’s Faculty Chair.

Generous funding from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Kresge Foundation supports the Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society.