Stand Together

Stand Together is the social-change network discussed by Chase Koch and Charles Koch in Charles & Chase Koch on How They Quietly Built a $150B Empire. Chase says it was created in 2003 from the idea that social change could be stronger through collaboration.

The source frames Stand Together through Barrier-Removal Social Change rather than narrow partisan alignment. Chase says the network includes close to a thousand business leaders and supports people closest to problems, including education efforts such as Alpha School, Khan Academy, Vela Fund, and seeded schools, plus community efforts such as The Phoenix.

Charles says his social-change work became less useful when it stayed only within ideologically aligned libertarian circles, and he now uses a Frederick Douglass principle of working with anyone to do right and no one to do wrong. The source therefore presents Stand Together as a collaboration and evidence-through-results model, while leaving the effectiveness claims source-scoped.

Connections

• Charles Koch and Chase Koch - source speakers.
• Barrier-Removal Social Change, Useful Work Career Compounding, and Purpose Driven Business - conceptual frame.
• Alpha School, Khan Academy, Vela Fund, and The Phoenix - education and recovery examples named in the source.
• Koch Industries - adjacent family and business context.