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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

With my friend and ICNL.bsky.social International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) board colleague, nonprofit leader Oluseyi Babatunde Oyebisi tonight in New York….

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I was honored to speak last week with German organizations working in China, convened by Stiftung Asienhaus, Stiftung Mercator and Maecenata Stiftung. Thanks to Joanna Klabisch, Zhao Zhong, Christian Straube, Ansgar Gessner, Katja Drinhauser, Friedrich Aurnhammer, Sascha Nicke, and colleagues….

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Excellent conversation yesterday with the China Foundation Forum / China Foundation Center on developments in policy and regulation on philanthropy in the US and China. Thanks to Professor Xijin Jia for the invitation and to Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and Heather Grady for hosting.

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

End of semester lunch with Cardozo School of Law terrific TAs and students Lucy Paiste, Emilee Kaminski, and Talia Raoufpur…

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Honored to appear on the same panel with the distinguished, multi-institutional Li Jian.

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

I’m honored to keynote at the Chinese Nonprofit Scholarly Forum convened by the Institute of Philanthropy at Tsinghua University on April 24. I’ll speak on recent developments in regulation of philanthropy and nonprofits in Asia and the US. My thanks to Wang Ming, Xijin Jia and others at Tsinghua.

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Some of the Asia Catalyst former board crew catching up today in New York. From L Mark Sidel, Karyn Kaplan, Joanne Csete, Bruce Rabb, Yvonne Chan. Next time with Randall Chamberlain and Minky Worden….

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Please join us…. Registration link at tinyurl.com/CNSMEventMar...

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

With Teo and Cooper, always grateful and always friends.

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I was honored to speak at Wesleyan University College of East Asian Studies this week on civil society in China. Thanks to Ying Jia Tan for the invitation, Kathleen Norris for managing the visit, and Mary Alice Haddad, Wendi Field Murray, Takeshi Watanabe and others at Wesleyan.

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Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I was honored to speak on China at the Windham World Affairs Council in Brattleboro VT this week. My thanks to Merrill Sovner and colleagues and the great audience.

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