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We're one quarter into 2026. Across the country, thousands of organizations are working to solve problems most big institutions haven't been able to figure out. Progress is coming from the bottom up. Here's proof. 🧵
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Stand Together
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Stand Together is a philanthropic community driving solutions on dozens of issues, including education, health care, and bridging partisan divides.
Arlington, VA Katılım Nisan 2018
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We're in the problem-solving business. That's how Brian Hooks describes Stand Together's approach to creating lasting social change.
In this conversation with @suffiyanmalikk, Brian discusses entrepreneurship, philanthropy, and why solving complex challenges requires ecosystems of solutions.
Worth a listen.
Suffiyan Malik@suffiyanmalikk
I got a chance to sit down with Brian Hooks, who is the CEO of @StandTogether, President of Charles Koch Foundation (@ckochfoundation) and co-author of “Believe in People” with @CharlesGKoch. He has scaled Stand Together to a network of 1,000 partner organizations and has deployed over $1B using a framework he called “venture philanthropy”. They are driven by problems and don’t get restricted by whether the vehicle through which they fund the problem is a donation or an investment. Which is a very interesting approach. He also described some of his work as backing “social entrepreneurs”. My career actually started in social entrepreneurship and I thought that the experiment doesn’t always work but my biases come from a completely different set of circumstances and structure. Setting up a million dollar prize of teams of student entrepreneurs might be a great way to catalyze more high agency college students and build a community of these people but might be a misdirected approach to solve the problem at hand. I shared this concern with to get his thoughts on what he has seen work based on their work so far. We talked about the parallels of backing talent in venture capital and philanthropy. I was particularly interested in this question because Brian’s career started at @mercatus at the George Mason University where he got a chance to work alongside @tylercowen who has written an incredible book called “Talent” with @danielgross, I was curious about his lessons from his time there. This is a special edition of our interview from @RonaldReagan Economic Forum, hope to have Brian back on for a longer wide-ranging conversation. Hope you enjoy the show! Timestamps 00:00 - Introduction 03:46 - Thesis behind backing Trust Ventures 07:13 - Learning insatiable curiosity from Tyler Cowen 10:29 - Discarding what works to achieve real scale 13:41 - Pooling the minds of a thousand business leaders 20:03 - Reforming a one-size-fits-all school system 23:32 - Using a venture capital model to fund classrooms 26:53 - Why higher education is completely broken 30:38 - Changing how modern companies look at talent 34:42 - The skills of the future 38:19 - Trying something different after a thousand years 41:34 - Closing
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La Luz runs on the same per-pupil funding as local public schools. Gamba believes what works in Denver can work anywhere, as long as schools give students more agency and more room to discover what they're capable of.
Full story at the link. bit.ly/4yhyYZp
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"La Luz can help you find your own interests and passions you would have never discovered otherwise, in a way that normal school doesn't really accommodate." — Sam, La Luz student
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Two-thirds of teens don't want to go to school. Kyle Gamba spent years in public schools watching that happen and came away with one conviction: the problem wasn't the students. 🧵
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@RPMulvey @AFPhq @CauseofActionDC "These individuals are like so many others in our country, working hard to achieve the American Dream." — @RPMulvey, @AFPhq. Full conversation at the link. standtogether.org/stories/separa… #ConstitutionalLaw #LoperBright
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@RPMulvey @AFPhq @CauseofActionDC In 2016, a federal agency required commercial fishermen to host and pay for at-sea government monitors, costing more than $700 a day plus meals and accommodations. Congress had never authorized those costs. For some boat captains, the fee exceeded what they made on the same trip.
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A federal agency billed fishermen for costs Congress never authorized. @RPMulvey of @AFPhq and @CauseofActionDC told Stand Together how they fought back, and what they changed.
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@RPMulvey @AFPhq @CauseofActionDC The fishermen who filed suit expecting to lose now attend regulatory hearings, file public comments, and show up ready to advocate for themselves in future disputes. Regulated industries across the country, from ranchers to land users in western states, have begun doing the same.
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@RPMulvey @AFPhq @CauseofActionDC The case reached the Supreme Court, which overturned Chevron deference, a 1984 doctrine that let federal agencies interpret unclear laws however they chose, with courts required to defer. Loper Bright ended that, returning interpretive authority to Congress and the courts.
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@RPMulvey @AFPhq @CauseofActionDC "At its core, Loper Bright was about a group of fishermen facing burdensome costs that Congress never authorized." — @RPMulvey, Senior Policy Counsel, @AFPhq
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This Fourth of July, we marked 250 years of an idea worth celebrating: a country of the people, by the people, and for the people.
That idea only works when the people show up — through the everyday choice to solve problems together in the places we call home.
That's the spirit behind Be The People. Led by a growing coalition of civic, cultural, business, and community leaders, it connects organizations in communities across the country with millions of Americans ready to do their part to help solve the problems holding people back and invites them to share their stories and inspire others to do the same.
Stand Together is proud to be one of more than 50 members of Be The People's National Leadership Council — leaders and organizations using their unique capabilities to help connect people to opportunities to get engaged and solve problems together in their communities.
Here's to the next 250. See how Americans are putting these ideals into action at Be The People.
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As we prepare to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence — a document that changed the course of history — Stand Together's Brian Hooks reflects on the role each of us can play to turn the principles in the Declaration into actionable solutions to our country's biggest problems. Thank you to everyone in the Stand Together community for all you do to help ensure the next 250 years are even better than the last!
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Most people know how George Washington's story ends. ‘Young Washington’ is about how it started. Out today, July 3. #YoungWashington
@washingtonmovie @AngelStudiosInc @watchonwonder @MountVernon @BRInstitute @JonErwin13 @Daniels_Fund @HannaSkandera
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"Before this program, I wasn't sure how to impact my community," one student said. "The Cardinals instilled a confidence in me."
@AZCardinals players @parisjohnsonjr and @mikewilllyy came to surprise a group of students before their trip to Washington D.C. What those students are already building is what stopped the players in their tracks. #A250
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As America marks its 250th year, @azcardinals are flying students to Washington D.C. to see democracy in person. What those students are already building back home stopped @parisjohnsonjr and @mikewilllyy in their tracks.
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