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Our public impact-focused team shares timely analysis, insights, news, and ideas about the ways universities, governments, businesses, and nonprofits are working together to use evidence and experience to make progress on the world’s hardest social challenges.
I'm excited to welcome Pallavi Trikutam as our first program officer on Stanford Impact Labs’ investments and accountability team. Our investment approach aims to build a research and development (R&D) pipeline for society’s hardest problems, through the support of partnership-based impact-oriented research.
I'm excited to welcome Ana Tellez as our program manager for partnerships. She joins our innovation and partnerships team as we work to refine the role that research plays in solving social problems and build a culture of public impact at Stanford and beyond.
Daniela Blei reports in Stanford Social Innovation Review on a new partnership between Oakland school administrators and Stanford scholars to help students return to school after juvenile detention. The Lifting the Bar project—which received $500,000 in start-up funding from Stanford Impact Labs in 2021—has designed and tested a new intervention. Initial results are promising and other Bay Area school are taking notice.
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Applications are open for the 2022-2023 Stanford Impact Labs Design Fellowship. Roughly ten faculty members from across the university will be selected to receive $50,000 and a year of mentoring and training to generate new research, ideas, and practical solutions for pressing social problems. We encourage faculty of all ranks and from across the university to apply.
A one-page letter is helping students in Oakland return to school after juvenile detention—and stay in school. Hattie Tate runs the Alameda County Juvenile Detention Transition Center.