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December 3, 2020/From Our Grantees

MASS Design’s Multidimensional Approach to Architecture, Design, and Infrastructure

By pursuing work that so clearly illustrates the ties between the built environment and social and economic outcomes, MASS Design’s strategic mindset is implicitly aware of the social, physical, and technological factors that inform multidimensional infrastructure.

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November 12, 2020/From Our Grantees

CORI’s Rural Innovation Network is Advancing Tech in Communities Across the Country

CORI recently released the first installment of their video series “The Rural Edge,” highlighting leaders who love the communities where they live, and want to help more people access and participate in the innovation economy.

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September 17, 2020/From Our Grantees

Supporting Grantees Through Long Term Planning and Unpredictability

Over the last few months, we’ve worked alongside and collected findings from a number of grantees as they refined their strategies and redesigned their programming in response to the upheavals of the COVID-19 pandemic and other aspects of our constantly changing world

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July 8, 2020/From Our Grantees

A State-by-State Resource for Preparing for the Future of Work

The National Governors Association (NGA) recently released a toolkit to help state policy leaders create more resilient local workforces that are adaptable to ongoing technological change, disruption, and innovation.

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April 2, 2020/From Our Grantees

Cooper Hewitt’s Design-Driven Solutions for Distance Learning

Bringing a whole education system online isn’t just a question of recreating it digitally.

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March 18, 2020/From Our Grantees

COVID-19 Resources from SFE Grantees

Many of SFE’s grantees are adapting to frequently changing conditions, and are finding new ways to make their programs available remotely to keep serving communities everywhere in the face of substantial uncertainty.

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April 25, 2019/From Our Grantees

Uniquely Human Insights from SFE’s Grantee Network

What human qualities can’t be replicated by machines? And how can we apply these traits in an automated world to create a better future?

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March 13, 2019/From Our Grantees

What Role Does Philanthropy Play in Creating Social Change?

Last month, Thea Charles (SFE’s Head of Knowledge and Impact) joined panelists at NYU’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service for a discussion on social change and philanthropy.

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March 11, 2019/From Our Grantees

Mozilla’s Open Science Fellows at the Halfway Point

Learn more about Mozilla’s 2018-2019 Open Science Fellows, whose work is focused on six areas of open science practice: open software, open hardware, open ethics, and open data, open publishing, and open skills.

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March 11, 2019/From Our Grantees

Today’s Strategies, Tomorrow’s Workforce: Technological Change in the Workplace

SFE is taking on big questions about the future of work through our funding partnership with Future Workforce Now (FWN), a program that explores the implications of technological change for state and local economies.

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May 23, 2018/From Our Grantees

The Cornell Tech Teacher in Residence Program – in Action!

Teacher professional development and skills enhancement have emerged as key tenets of SFE’s Computational Thinking investments. Learn more about our ongoing collaboration with Cornell Tech on their Teacher in Residence (TIR) program.

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