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In partnership with Heartland Forward and rootEd Alliance, Sunnylands hosted a convening from February 4–6, focused on expanding economic and career opportunities for young people in rural America. Rural communities—home to roughly 60 million people, or one in five Americans—continue to face higher poverty rates and lower levels of educational Read more…
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Sunnylands hosted the fifth convening of the Indo-Pacific Security Dialogue, continuing a trusted series launched in 2021 in partnership with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. With three gatherings at Sunnylands and two in Palo Alto, the dialogue has become a respected forum for candid, senior-level exchanges on Indo-Pacific security Read more…
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New economic and medical research suggests policymakers should treat arts and culture as strategic national assets. Yet in the United States, the arts remain undervalued. The creative sector generates nearly 5% of gross domestic product and supports 5.4 million jobs, surpassing agriculture and transportation in economic impact. Medical research reveals Read more…
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As China’s economic, political, technological, and security influence accelerates, democratic allies are grappling with how to engage Beijing without compromising their own interests and values. To confront these questions, Sunnylands partnered with the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) and the Asia Society Task Force on U.S.-China Relations to launch Read more…
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On July 12-14, Sunnylands supported EAT to host preparatory discussions in advance of the October 2025 release of The EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems, a landmark scientific report defining healthy diets in the context of climate and environmental change. EAT, a global nonprofit dedicated to leveraging science and knowledge to achieve meaningful change to global food systems, is a prior Sunnylands Read more…
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Sunnylands welcomed back the Women Leaders in Philanthropy, a cohort of more than twenty women who run major U.S. foundations and philanthropies. The group was formed at a Sunnylands convening in April 2023 in partnership with the Annenberg Foundation, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, and the USC Center on Philanthropy & Public Read more…
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In partnership with Right to Start, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding entrepreneurial opportunity in the United States, from January 30 to February 1, Sunnylands convened a diverse group of leaders to collaborate on and endorse a national action plan aimed at making entrepreneurship a central pillar of economic renewal. The Read more…
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From December 12-14, Sunnylands partnered with RAND, a non-partisan research organization with extensive expertise on national security challenges, to host a retreat that explored the potentially disruptive geopolitical implications of artificial intelligence. This dialogue convened a bipartisan group of senior national security officials, top technology executives from large and small Read more…
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From July 28–30, Sunnylands partnered with the U.S. State Department and National Security Council to host the Quantum Development Group Kick-off Meeting. We convened senior diplomats and government scientists from Australia, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Finland, France, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States at the Inn at Perry Cabin Read more…
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On May 7-9, 2024, Sunnylands hosted the first meeting of the Munich Security Conference (MSC) Food Security Task Force. Launched in 2024 and comprising 16 leaders from across the public and private sectors, the Task Force will lead high-level MSC policy events on food security and identify potential food systems Read more…
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In the United States, century-long lives are here. As a nation and as a global society, we are not prepared. Our institutions, economic policies, infrastructure, and social and cultural norms have not evolved to meet this enormous demographic shift, despite warnings from forward-thinking leaders about the dramatic implications of this Read more…
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Sunnylands, in partnership with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) at the University of Pennsylvania, convened an in-person retreat on February 8-10, 2024, about ways for the scientific community to respond to the perils and promises of artificial intelligence (AI). Building on a Read more…
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On January 12 – 14, 2024, Sunnylands partnered with More Perfect to host a retreat entitled, It’s Our Democracy: A Campaign for a More Perfect Union. This retreat was a follow-up to one Sunnylands hosted in October 2022. While the aim of the 2022 convening was to stress-test and launch Read more…
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To effectively address the climate change crisis, cooperation between the world’s two largest emitters of carbon dioxide, the United States and China, is critical. On November 4-7, 2023, Sunnylands hosted four intense days of climate change negotiations between former Secretary of State John Kerry, then the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy Read more…
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On October 1-3, at the Borgo Finocchieto estate in Italy, Sunnylands hosted a select group of food, agriculture, and climate experts to provide early feedback to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ new Roadmap to Jointly Achieve Climate and Food Security and Nutrition Goals. Global consensus holds that Read more…
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