Five Lessons for Funders from Our Community Reinvestment Work in Atlanta
A year in, we reflect on our partnership in Atlanta and consider what comes next.
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Original Whitepapers. Strategic Framing. Fresh Takes.
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Fall Case Study Series: How Four Grantees are Building Enduring and Frontier Skills
Siegel Family Endowment is committed to supporting organizations that are on the frontlines of building an equitable future by helping to nurture enduring skills and frontier skills. We explain how we’re conceptualizing these vital skills and how our thinking has evolved over time. We also share case studies of four grantee organizations that are realizing the promise of enduring and frontier skills in meaningful ways.
Spring Case Study Series: How Three Grantees are Leveraging School and Community to Improve Outcomes for All
While the summer months offer an excellent window into how schools and communities come together to jointly grow and teach our young people, these collaborative efforts ought to exist all year. It is against this backdrop that we elevate three organizations seeking to redefine the relationship between school and community, in ways big and small.
Feedback Survey 2022: What We Heard and What We Plan to Do About It
We surveyed our 2022 grantees and conducted nine in-depth confidential interviews to dig deeper. What follows is a summary of key themes put together by our third part interviewer – and how we plan to respond.
Hope in the Details: Our Year in Review 2022
As we contemplate the events of the past year and anticipate what’s to come in 2023, I am once again privileged to be in the position to share my thoughts and reflections on where we find ourselves today.
Schools as Community Infrastructure
This whitepaper offer a vision of schools as more than buildings. We want to think of schools (and all the extensions of schools, the many places where teaching and learning happen) as pieces of community infrastructure.
Our Roadmap to Community-Centric Grantmaking in Atlanta
There is tremendous innovation happening in the city’s education systems, as well as progress in the workforce and pivotal infrastructure development underway.
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.
Building an Equitable Innovation Economy: Access to Empowering Social Connections
Our series Building an Equitable Innovation Economy asks how we might build innovative capacity that can bring more people into high-growth industries.
Building an Equitable Innovation Economy: Financing Lifelong Skilling
We explore three pillars that set a stage where innovation can emerge: community-driven innovation, the sustainable financing of lifelong skilling and access to empowering social connections.
Building an Equitable Innovation Economy: Fostering Community-Driven Innovation
Looking at the landscape of innovation environments today, you see an increasing concentration of high-growth, “good jobs” within industries and within certain cities.