Lucy Bernholz, PhD

Senior Research Scholar
Stanford University

Bernholz is a Senior Research Scholar at Stanford University’s Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society and Director of the Digital Civil Society Lab. She has been a Visiting Scholar at The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and a Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, the Hybrid Reality Institute, and the New America Foundation. She is the author of numerous articles and books about philanthropy, policy, and technology, including the annual Blueprint Series on Philanthropy and the Social Economy, the 2010 publication Disrupting Philanthropy, and her 2004 book Creating Philanthropic Capital Markets: The Deliberate Evolution. 

She is the author of How We Give Now: Philanthropy by the Rest of Us, (forthcoming from MIT Press); co-editor of Philanthropy in Democratic Societies, (University of Chicago Press, 2016); and co-editor of Digital Technologies and Democracy Theory (University of Chicago Press, 2020). She writes extensively on philanthropy, technology, and policy on her award winning blog, philanthropy2173.com. 

She studied history and has a B.A. from Yale University, where she played field hockey and captained the lacrosse team, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. 
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