Research
The Center has
conducted research projects around
the world on giving and voluntarism,
women and philanthropy, NGO-government
relations in developing nations, and
many other topics.
International
Its International
Fellows Program, launched in 1989,
brings younger scholars and practitioners
who are studying or working in nongovernmental
organizations to New York City to
study comparable American organizations.
Fellows have participated from Europe,
Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
Students
The Center has
sponsored fellowship and awards programs
for talented students at The Graduate
Center to encourage the study of philanthropy,
such as the creation in 1993 of the
William Randolph Hearst assistantships
for women and minority students of
The Graduate Center.
Situated in one of the most cosmopolitan
cities and university systems in the
world, the Center is located at the
mid-Manhattan campus of The Graduate
Center of The City University of New
York. CUNY is the nation's third largest
university system, and the largest
urban system.
Founded in 1847, CUNY consists of
twenty constituent colleges, including
The Graduate Center, nine senior colleges,
and several community colleges. The
Graduate Center's 1700-member faculty
includes authors of best-selling books,
leaders in a variety of fields, innovative
researchers, and recipients of Fulbrights,
Guggenheims, Pulitzer Prizes, and
MacArthur Awards.
One-third of its rated programs are
ranked among the top fifteen in the
United States; two-thirds are ranked
among the twenty-five best. The Graduate
Center is located among a rich variety
of local, national, and international
nonprofits, foundations, and corporate
donors.
It also provides easy access to a
wealth of resources for studying philanthropy,
including (among other institutions)
the Foundation Center Library, the
Rockefeller Archive Center, the North
American Jewish Data Bank at the Center
for Jewish Studies, the Carnegie Corporation
collections at Columbia University,
the Schomburg Center for Research
in Black Culture, the New York Historical
Society, the Nonprofit Coordinating
Committee's database on New York nonprofits,
and the New York Public Library.
The Center on Philanthropy and Civil
Society is uniquely positioned to
serve as a laboratory for developing
programs to promote research, education,
and public discourse about philanthropy
among a wide variety of constituencies.
Contact
us for more information.
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