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Op-Ed: It’s Time to Unlock Rural America’s Assets
To ensure small towns can recover, funders and policymakers must aggressively pilot innovative solutions, with an eye towards scaling successes across similar regions, that help build a new paradigm for geographically inclusive growth.
Report Brief: How the Regional Plan Association is Developing a Multidimensional Plan for COVID-19 Recovery in New York City
The Regional Plan Association is creating actionable policy reports that highlight how critical multidimensional infrastructure is to unlocking greater, more equitable impact for all.
Event Recap: Panel Hosted by Siegel and Aspen Digital
Siegel Family Endowment and Aspen Digital convened researchers, local leaders and policymakers, funders, and representatives of the private sector to discuss our new framework for multidimensional infrastructure.
Pursuit Announces $3 Million in Funding from Siegel to Tackle Systemic Issues Preventing Low-Income Americans from Accessing Training and Career Opportunities in Technology
The gift — the largest in Pursuit’s history — builds on Pursuit’s work to break down barriers to hiring and underinvestment in workforce training for diverse and low-income communities
Event Recap: Katy Knight and Sal Khan on Infrastructure, the Digital Divide, and More
Executive Director Katy Knight appeared on Homeroom with Sal Khan to discuss key findings from our whitepaper on multidimensional infrastructure, her own personal career pathway into philanthropy, and more.
Siegel Family Endowment launches new infrastructure framework to address urgent challenges facing American communities
Today Siegel Family Endowment, which provides support to organizations working at the intersections of learning, workforce, and infrastructure, releases a white paper detailing a new multidimensional infrastructure framework.
Siegel Family Endowment Joins Feedback Labs’ Feedback Incentives Learning Group
Earlier this week, I joined Feedback Labs and a group of funders to launch the Feedback Incentives Learning Group, which is designed to help funders share critical findings and develop new processes for incorporating grantee and constituent voices and experiences to their grantmaking work.
Event Recap: Panel on the Future of Learning at the Intersection of Technology and Design
What do architects, educators, and technologists have to teach one another about the future of learning? What do effective learning environments look like in a world that is highly technology-infused?
The Center on Rural Innovation Announces Renewed, Expanded Funding from Siegel Family Endowment
The grant totals $2.8 million over the next three years, and targets programs and work that will help the organization scale its efforts to bring digital economy jobs to small town America and close the rural opportunity gap.
July 2020 Newsletter: Context is Key
One of the core philosophies that I ask the members of our team to keep at the top of mind in all of our work is the belief that “context is key.” In order to be the most effective thought partners and grantmakers possible, we need to fully understand the conditions and circumstances under which our grantees do their work.