Duke Sanford School of Public Policy

The Center is pleased to announce the creation of a new resource for the field, the Philanthropy Course Syllabus Database.

The Course Syllabus Database contains a collection of syllabuses for courses on philanthropy contributed by scholars from institutions nationwide, including Indiana University, the Harvard Business School, Stanford University, and Princeton University. Course titles and descriptions are fully searchable. Users can also browse by focus, keyword, institution, instructor, and year offered. The syllabuses themselves are stored as read-only PDFs behind a free registration wall.

In my recent article in Stanford Social Innovation Review, I coined the term "catalytic philanthropy"

Much of the "new philanthropy," it seems to me, inhabits a world like Pandora of Avatar—James Cameron’s new film that is now the biggest blockbuster of all time.