Micah McElroy

Associate Director of Research, Effective Philanthropy Learning Initiative at Stanford’s Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society

Micah McElroy is the Associate Director of Research for the Effective Philanthropy Learning Initiative at Stanford’s Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. Micah is interested in the factors that shape philanthropic practice with the broader goal of ensuring philanthropy nurtures an egalitarian and democratic society. He graduated with a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University, where he researched how philanthropy professionals, policy, and local businesses helped create distinctive patterns of philanthropy in the San Francisco Bay Area. He previously worked as an editor of the Emma Goldman Papers and earned a BA from UC Berkeley with highest honors.

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Learning from the History of Philanthropy in the San Francisco Bay Area

Posted on October 19, 2022 by Micah McElroy

Cable car going down hill in San Francisco
The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the most prosperous places in the United States, home to technological giants, entrepreneurial universities, and cities where more billionaires per capita reside than almost anywhere else in the world. But the Bay Area is also one of the nation’s most economically unequal places, marked by widening income inequality and under-resourced nonprofits. Alarmed… Read More

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