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Research drives innovation and new business models in health care

WebWhat difference do you think it would make if a person with chronic illness had initial appointments with a primary care doctor that totaled 80 minutes? It seems hard to imagine any doctor having that sort of time for every new patient in today’s pressured …

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About Stand Together Trust

WebStand Together Trust was founded by Charles Koch, one of America’s leading philanthropists and chairman and co-CEO of the largest private company in America. Charles has donated an estimated $1.8 billion to nonprofit causes over his lifetime, with a …

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Krista Tippett: Social Healing Against the Odds

WebKrista Tippet & Social Healing Against the Odds. Journalist Krista Tippett on better conversations, connecting civil society, and the real state of the nation. January 27, 2021. “We really had to fight for this,” National Humanities Medalist Krista Tippett …

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Manhattan Institute on Microschooling

Web“It is impossible to fully understand the status and future of microschools and related small-school approaches without appreciating the influence of the Covid era,” writes Andy Smarick, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Case in point: Sophia Ortega …

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Letter from Charles Koch Foundation and Stand

WebDear Friends and Partners of the Charles Koch Foundation and Stand Together Trust, Today we stand together with everyone in this country and around the world to do all we can to support one another and prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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ACT NOW: Breaking Bread bridges divides

WebIdeological divides about how to address policing, poverty, and racial injustice can seem unbridgeable. But ACT NOW, a nonprofit organization dedicated to addressing persistent social inequalities, has shown people can come together.Currently in 15 U.S. …

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Overcriminalization In America Stand Together Trust

WebSource: “The Overcriminalization of America: How to boost social welfare, reduce poverty and improve race relations by rethinking our justice system,” Politico. Charles Koch co-authored an op-ed in Politico on the need to reevaluate the United …

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Urban policy expert and scholar Adam Millsap to join Stand …

WebStand Together Trust announced today that Adam Millsap, assistant director of Florida State University’s L. Charles Hilton Jr. Center, is now a visiting fellow and will join the organization full time in June.

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Sal Khan on ‘pandemic learning’ and the mastery framework in …

WebNew learning approaches are continually being unveiled and the disruptions in schooling during the COVID pandemic only accelerated experimental approaches aimed at individualized education. Washington Post tech editor Christina Passariello recently …

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Schoolhouse.world benefits Rhode Island and New Hampshire …

WebLast year, Stand Together Trust launched a $1.5 million partnership to establish and scale Schoolhouse.world, a platform created by Khan Academy founder Sal Khan, that helps students get free, individualized academic help.. The Providence …

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Stand Together Trust joins America Succeeds’ Durable Skills Initiative

WebStand Together Trust recently joined America Succeeds’ Durable Skills Initiative alongside organizations like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, Society for Human Resource Managers, Associated Builders and Contractors, and CompTIA to …

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Community Solutions: Alternatives to Incarceration

WebThis panel examined policy alternatives to incarceration, discussing a range of programs that can both serve as alternatives to pretrial incarceration and facilitate re-entry and rehabilitation for those who have been incarcerated. Laurie Garduque, director of …

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Perspectives on the Future of NATO

WebStand Together Trust hosted an event on Trans-Atlantic Relations and the Future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in New York City last month. The event featured former ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder, now president of the Chicago …

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The Spirit of Free Expression and Its Erosion on Campus

WebThe issue of free speech on campus has a long history beyond today’s disinvitation of speakers and shouting down of professors. In the 1960s, protests at the University of California, Berkeley, were in favor of free speech and against universities …

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Business Owner Sick of Handouts

WebDespite the public’s general distaste for it, corporate welfare remains popular among politicians and the favored recipients who can dole out and receive money with little accountability. However, as Dustin Hurst writes at IdahoFreedom.org, in Idaho one …

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Sarah Cross on working together across divides

WebOn February 17, Sarah Cross, director for Free Speech & Peace at Stand Together Trust, published an op-ed in The Chronicle of Philanthropy discussing how philanthropists must work together across political divides to cure extremism. …

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“There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch” and Other Friedman-isms

WebToday marks Milton Friedman’s birthday. Described by The Economist as “the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century … possibly all of it,” Milton Friedman lives on in his ideas.. At Stand Together Trust, we’ve named our classrooms …

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Amity Shlaes Discusses "The Forgotten Man" at CPAC

WebSumner defined “the forgotten man” as “the man who pays, the man who prays, the man who is not thought of.”. Shlaes noted that Sumner was referring to the injustice of cronyism: “A and B get together and force C to subsidize the perhaps good, …

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