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Programs
International Fellows Programs
Corporate Philanthropy
Multicultural Philanthropy Project
Coalition for New Philanthropy
Donor Research Project
Faculty and Student Research
Events
Awards and Scholarships
 

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.