With support from our co-hosts and sponsors—the GitLab Foundation, Heising-Simons Foundation, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, Omidyar Network, and the Public Interest Tech Fund—we designed a day-and-a-half agenda that focused on strengthening community across boundaries, expanding our collective imagination of the futures technology can enable, and advancing the field’s shared capacity to turn vision into action.
We sat down with Joshua Elder, Vice President and Head of Grantmaking at Siegel, to reflect on the Learning Landscape Challenge’s journey and what he and his team have learned along the way, exploring the gaps in the education investment landscape, the evolving concept of multidimensional infrastructure, and how the challenge model unlocked new avenues for invention and collaboration.
At Siegel Family Endowment, we’ve spent the first half of 2025 contending with profound uncertainty—not as a problem to solve, but as a condition to navigate with intention, curiosity, and collective wisdom. A bit past the midway point in the year, Siegel President and Executive Director Katy Knight would like to share three questions that have shaped our thinking in the hope that they might resonate with your own.
This summer, The Maintainers enters a new phase. The organization is transitioning from a fully grant-funded organization to a distributed leadership model (with carry over funding sourced from network outreach in 2024) in which a Steering Committee and network members take ownership for building on the community of practice established during the organization’s first phase.
Congratulations to New Visions for Public Schools and Xchange Chicago as the Learning Landscapes Challenge grand-prize winners! Siegel Vice President & Head of Grantmaking Joshua Elder made the announcement at the challenge Demo Day at Cornell Tech.
Each year, we bring together our Siegel fellow cohort for an annual convening. This year’s convening, which included 14 fellows, was held in New York City in mid-March. The timing of our gathering this year felt significant.
Pegah Moradi is a PhD candidate in Information Science at Cornell University, where she studies the social and organizational dimensions of digital automation, with a focus on its impacts on work and workers.
CitizensNYC’s CEO Reflects on the Organization at 50 Years and Explains Why Its Work Is More Relevant Than Ever A youth beekeeping initiative on Staten […]
Ruchika Joshi is a Siegel Research Fellow at the Center for Democracy & Technology’s AI Governance Lab, where she develops technically rigorous solutions for industry […]
In every era of rapid technological change, there come moments of deliberation: wait for policy or lead through practice?
What happens when students are more than subjects of the conversation? This year, Siegel supported the journey of three students from The Bell to SXSW EDU to help elevate student voice and representation at a conference focused on the future of education.