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Investing in refugee-led enterprises, companies supporting refugees, and the communities welcoming them can transform tragedy into economic and social gain for all.
Read this new in-depth feature from our Summer 2026 issue.
"We hadn’t done user research or tried to optimize an experience. We had identified an invisible social rule that every previous intervention had either missed or accepted as fixed. And then we designed a mechanism that worked with the culture, instead of against it.
That’s norm design."
Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, Faculty Affiliate @persily.bsky.social joined the Stanford Legal podcast to discuss the decision and its implications for racial representation, partisan gerrymandering, and anti-discrimination law.
Listen via @law.stanford.edu ⤵️
New in @ssir.org, Stanford PACS Executive Director Priya Shanker discusses the roles of civic leadership and foundation expertise in this evolving era of billionaire #philanthropy ⤵️
"The fundamental beginning point of a conversation for me about these highly capable and accelerating AI models is that we should not trust the companies to grade their own homework."
Listen to the conversation or read the transcript. ⤵️
Stanford PACS Faculty Advisor @robreich.bsky.social joined the Council on AI Governance’s AI Rules podcast to discuss the evolving landscape of #AI governance, the national security risks posed by frontier models, how to involve #CivilSociety in setting standards, and more.
🔗 podcast.caigov.org
What responsibilities accompany extraordinary wealth in a time of civic decline?
In @ssir.org, Priya Shanker discusses the potential for #CivicLeadership in today's era of billionaire #philanthropy and why the cross-sector, coalition-building work of legacy foundations may point the way forward.
Drawing on the lessons of the past, the next generation of philanthropists must "see #philanthropy not simply as a mechanism for social problem solving but as a means of broadening the agency of communities and strengthening their capacity to shape their own futures."
Read more ⤵️
Glad to see this WP from our lab out today, a labor of love over last year.
Kudos to @davidbroska.bsky.social and @jonnekamphorst.bsky.social for their hard work on it!
Please share any comments, suggestions, or criticisms of the research. All are welcome!
As humanitarian aid agencies buckle under the collapse of financial support, the private sector must step in to invest in refugees and integrate them into the economy. We review three models of succes...
"The defining challenge for this new generation of billionaire philanthropists is therefore not simply determining what to fund but how to exercise influence in a society where trust is fragile and legitimacy cannot be bought."
— Priya Shanker of @stanfordpacs.bsky.social
What a new generation of entrepreneurial donors should learn from legacy institutions and leaders.
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Americans say they want less inequality. Why don’t they support policies to reduce it?
New paper: across 31 nationally representative survey waves (N=384,248) and a preregistered experiment (N=1,009), Americans favor PREdistributive over REdistributive policies 🧵
osf.io/preprints/so...
