Infrastructure

November 21, 2022
Research

Scale through Program Design: Lessons from Alternative Finance for Workplace Training

This is part of our “Designed for Scale” series, which explores how we can design and fund programs that are prepared for the challenges of expanding their reach and delivering…

November 21, 2022
Research

Scale Through Networks: Connecting Workers to Innovation

As we continue our series on scale, we turn to the challenge of bringing workers like these closer to decisions around innovation.

November 21, 2022
Research

Designed for Scale: Growth from the Outset, not as an Afterthought

What happens when scale is the part of the goal, rather than a fortunate result? Achieving impact at scale is a perennial challenge across the social sector, including for nonprofits…

November 17, 2022
Reflections, Research

AI as Multidimensional Infrastructure

When we look at AI through its components and relationships, we can identify discrete but overlapping physical, social, and digital infrastructures.

November 16, 2022
Research

Taking it Down to the Studs: Information Infrastructures in Need of Deconstruction

Even with a renewed focus on maintenance and repair, we are often overlooking another possibility for infrastructuring: deconstruction.

November 16, 2022
Research

Meet Our 2022-2023 Siegel Research Fellows

Siegel Family Endowment is thrilled to introduce the 2022-2023 cohort of researchers, academics, and public policy experts who make up the foundation’s Siegel Research Fellows Program.

November 15, 2022
Research

A Lookback on the Pilot Cohort of our Siegel Research Fellows 2021-2022

The inaugural cohort of impressive researchers and academics produced publications presented and workshopped their research at monthly research seminars, and even published a book during their time as Siegel Research Fellows.

November 15, 2022
Research

A New Era for Siegel’s Tech Policy

At Siegel, we recognize that the development and deployment of technology is shaped by public policy.

October 6, 2022
From Our Grantees, Research

Case Study: Inclusive Innovation Cycle in Manufacturing in Buffalo, NY

Technological innovation is rapidly changing the manufacturing sector. While the benefits have the potential to be far-reaching, they are not equitably shared.

October 6, 2022
From Our Grantees, Research

Research Brief: Aspen Digital on a People-Centered Approach to Digital Infrastructure

When it comes to digital infrastructure, communities lack more than just broadband access.

July 25, 2022
News

NYN Media: Nonprofits receive $50,000 awards to promote digital equity

Siegel Family Endowment awarded grants to five organizations after New York City’s Internet Master Plan was paused in June.

July 6, 2022
Big Ideas

Local news is critical infrastructure. It’s time we treat it that way.

What role does journalism serve in a community? How does it interact with other municipal institutions to help deliver a vibrant, multiracial democracy? Aspen and Siegel convened journalists, media leaders, academics, local, state, and federal gov officials, civic leaders, and others to discuss.