A recording of a conversation between Rhodri Davies and Lucy Bernholz, author of the Philanthropy and Digital Civil Society: Blueprint 2025.
On 29th Jan 2025 Why Philanthropy Matters teamed up with renowned philanthropy and civil society scholar Lucy Bernholz from the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS), as part of a series of “keeping the conversation going events” to support the publication of 16th annual edition of the Blueprint series.
Rhodri and Lucy discussed the idea of “blurring boundaries” between civil society, the private sector, technology and politics.
-As the range of organisations claiming a social purpose continues to expand, do the traditional dividing lines we draw between sectors still mean anything?
-In the wake of OpenAI’s decision to abandon its original non-profit status and seek a new commercial structure, how should we view efforts to combine profit and purpose?
-As moves by the Trump administration to delegitimise parts of civil society inevitably make the work of nonprofits unavoidably political, do the dividing lines between politics and civil society become meaningless?
