Duke University Social Policy
http://sanford.duke.edu/centers/social_policy.php
Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society researches, analyzes and promotes philanthropy that consistently produces high impact. The Center stimulates communication, collaboration and problem-solving around pressing issues of public policy and philanthropy.
Center for the Study of Philanthropy and Voluntarism promotes the exchange of ideas among students, scholars, policymakers and practitioners in the nonprofit sector.
Duke Center for Child and Family Policy seeks to solve problems facing children in contemporary society by bringing together scholars from many disciplines with policymakers and practitioners.
Duke University Program on History, Public Policy and Social Change uses a variety of scholarly and pedagogical initiatives to foster historical perspective among policymakers and awareness among historians of how their work can inform today’s challenges.
Hart Leadership Program is the first endowed undergraduate program at a major university to emphasize ethics, service, social entrepreneurship and the responsibilities of leadership as part of its curriculum.
Program on Civil Society (Fleishman Civil Society Fellows) focuses on the changing public policy roles of philanthropic foundations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), social enterprises, and other organizations and participants in the non-profit sector.
Program in Public Law promotes better understanding of our nation’s public institutions, of the Constitutional framework in which they function, and of the principles and laws that apply to the work of public officials.