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Thank you to the terrific Richard Rockefeller Fellows and Professor Qin Gao for the opportunity to speak with the Fellows yesterday at Columbia on issues in China-US philanthropic and nonprofit relations and the situation in the US….

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University of Wisconsin Law School @law.wisc.edu · 23/09/2026

Applications are now open for the Fall 2027 William H. Hastie Fellowship. The Hastie Fellowship has supported aspiring scholars preparing for a career in law teaching since 1973. Apply and learn more: buff.ly/E5Vwl57

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Hastie Fellowship Applications | University of Wisconsin Law School

The program honors William H. Hastie (1904-1976), a lawyer, teacher, jurist and civil rights advocate who championed the importance of high-quality legal education.

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

With my @icnl.bsky.social International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) board colleague and friend Oyebisi Babatunde Oluseyi in New York on Friday….

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

LBI, August 2026. With Jeff Miller, Laurie Magid, Margaret Raymond.

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

In sadness, recording the death of Geraldine Kunstadter, a trailblazing philanthropist and my friend. Geri died recently at the age of 98 and is mourned in the US, China, Vietnam, Laos and elsewhere where she worked. Her superb obituary is at www.legacy.com/us/obituarie.... We will miss you, Geri….

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Meeting with Jinny Uppal, Director of the Centre for Social Impact and Philanthropy at Ashoka University in New York on philanthropy in India and beyond….

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

@fordfoundation.org friends Steve Lawry, Dianne DeMaria, @marksidel.bsky.social, Nellie Toma and David Chiel gather for lunch in New York….

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

We remember our friend and colleague Peter F. Geithner on the tenth anniversary of his death. An appreciation is at www.alliancemagazine.org/analysis/pet.... Peter’s Ford and other papers are at the Rockefeller Archive Center, dimes.rockarch.org/agents/KMiPX....

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Peter Geithner: an appreciation - Alliance magazine

Peter F Geithner, for decades a pivotal figure in the Ford Foundation’s programmes in Asia and a long-time catalyst for the development of philanthropy in the region, died in July 2016. He has been re...

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

With Michael Layton of the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy at GVSU at the International Society for Third Sector Research 2026 conference in Lisbon….

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

With Ben Gidron at the International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR) 2026 conference in Lisbon, before our roundtable on backsliding democracy….

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

With Rupert Graf Strachwitz of the @maecenata.bsky.social Marcenata Institute at the International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR) 2026 conference in Lisbon, before a joint roundtable on backsliding democracy issues.

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Discussing Myriad Alliance matters with Cathy de Wilder at the International Society for Third Sector Research 2026 conference in Lisbon.

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

At dinner at the International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR) 2026 conference in Lisbon on a World Cup night, with Dana Doan, @louisbickford.bsky.social, @merrillsovner.bsky.social, Shawn Shieh and Betsy Shieh.

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

With Janice Nga and Mary Beth Collins at the International Society for Third Sector (ISTR) 2026 conference in Lisbon….

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

With the International Society for Third Sector Research Law and Regulation group at the ISTR conference in Lisbon this week….

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

With Dana Doan, Martha Lackritz-Peltier and Samuel Kusasira at the International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR) conference in Lisbon.

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

With Nicola McBean of The Rights Practice in London recently, discussing developments in China and beyond….

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

For anyone at the ISTR conference in Lisbon next week, you’re welcome to our roundtable on Backsliding Democracy: The Crisis for Civil Society and Philanthropy in Comparative Perspective, July 15, 4:30 pm. Ansgar Gessner, Chris Dayson, Ben Gidron, Ingrid Srinath, Rupert Strachwitz and I will speak….

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Happy birthday to Victor Sidel…. Always remembered. Photo is from Beijing, 55 years ago….

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

With Theo Velasquez, Kirk Cooper and Deborah Lino. Always friends, always grateful….

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Zhu Jiangang speaking at the University of Hong Kong this week….

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

With Hu Ming in Macau this week….

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

On a review team at the University of Hong Kong this week, with Thomas Cheng, Simon Bronitt, Gordon Wong, Trevor Wan, Peter Chau and Hui Li. Special thanks to Tracy Ling and Sharon Chan.

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I’m honored to have been elected chair of the board of the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL), @icnl.bsky.social, a terrific organization at the forefront of research and policy on civic space and the nonprofit sector. My thanks to my colleagues….

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

With Maxine Orris at the @psr.org Physicians for Social Responsibility 65th anniversary event in New York this week….

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Celebrating the life and work of Leon Irish, a stalwart for civil society and the nonprofit sector and a co-founder of the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL), @icnl.bsky.social. www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The senior staff and board of trustees of the China Medical Board/CMB Foundation meeting in Atlanta in May 2026….

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

With Birger Stamperdahl, leader of Give2Asia and a key figure in the Myriad Alliance for crossborder giving, at G2A meetings in San Francisco this week….

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

@margaretraymond.bsky.social and I were delighted to catch up with old friends (from New Delhi) Aru White and Rick White in New York….

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Give2Asia friends, staff and board members thank George Cysip and Narendra Agrawal for their decades of distinguished contributions to philanthropy in San Francisco this week. With Birger Stamperdahl, Brieuc Van Damme, Jean Paul Warmoes, Carol Yang, Rick Schawelson and other distinguished guests….

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Compliance as Resistance, publishing today in the Stanford Social Innovation Review @ssir.org. Thanks to Latitude Global and SSIR for initiating this series on nonprofit and philanthropic compliance, and to Jenifer Morgan for great editing. ssir.org/articles/ent...

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Compliance as Resistance (SSIR)

Philanthropic, nonprofit, and civil society organizations that face highly restrictive state policies can leverage compliance to pursue their goals as legalized entities, making them harder to suppres...

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

@fordfoundation.org former colleagues / current friends Steve Lawry, Dianne DiMaria, Nellie Toma, @marksidel.bsky.social at lunch today….

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

We remember Ruth Sidel with love on the tenth anniversary of her death…. Kevin and Mark Sidel and our families.

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

With Mary Zurbuchen in New York, discussing philanthropy’s issues….

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I was honored to speak at the King Baudouin Foundation Be Philanthropy conference this week with Elika Roohi, Fabian Zuleeg, Maria Chepurina-Deswel, and Laurence de Nervaux on the crisis for philanthropy in polarized and authoritarian contexts. Thanks to Stephanie Smets and KBF colleagues.

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Nick Robinson of International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) and I spoke on recent developments in Chinese and US law and policy for nonprofits working in China at an ICNL webinar. This 2025 podcast with Kaiser Kuo gives details on Chinese developments. www.sinicapodcast.com/p/transcript...

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Transcript | Mark Sidel on China's Oversight of Foreign NGOs: Eight Years of the Overseas NGO Law

This week on Sinica, I speak with Mark Sidel, the Doyle Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a senior fellow at the International Center for Not for Pr...

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Thanks to Rebecca Lelchuk + Diana Devlin for the showing of American Nightmare/American Dream, about the struggles for education in the face of the public assistance system + the successes of the Welfare Rights Initiative. Dillonna C. Lewis-Gallardo, Maureen Lane, Ruth Sidel. americandreamfilms.com

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"American Nightmare / American Dream"

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) board and senior staff meeting in Toronto at a challenging time for civil society in many countries and regions…. @icnl.bsky.social

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

With old friend Zhu Jiangang at ARNOVA in November. 朱健刚

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Honored to be keynoting this event with colleagues from China and beyond….

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

The trustees of the China Medical Board meeting last week in Washington….

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Pleased to present yesterday for the Richard Rockefeller Fellows at the China Center for Social Policy at Columbia, on the Trump Administration’s policies toward philanthropy and nonprofits and implications for work with China. Thanks to Prof Qin Gao, Diane Williams and Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

All welcome: The Increasing Barriers to Movement of Philanthropic and Social Investment Capital in Asia in an Era of Retrenchment Mark Sidel UW-Madison and ICNL Friday, October 3, 12:00 noon Norway time (GMT+2); 6:00 am New York time Join us on Zoom: lnkd.in/eCSE9dK9%3Ch...

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Nam Kim, Erik Harms and I at a Southeast Asian academic centers gathering in New York yesterday… @GETSEA @Henry Luce Foundation

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

With good friends on Long Beach Island….

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

My thanks to Eva Hansson and Bui Hai Thiem at the Stockholm Center for Global Asia for the terrific workshop on shifts in civil society and philanthropy in Asia that I was honored to keynote this week…. Johan Lagerkvist, Andrew Wells-Dang, Meredith Weiss, Mauro Zamboni and other terrific speakers….

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