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February 6, 2025/

You spoke, we listened: What we heard in our 2024 feedback survey and how we plan to respond

As part of our effective grantmaking strategy and knowledge and impact work, Siegel collects and engages with feedback from its grantees and partners. During 2024, we commissioned an independent author to conduct confidential interviews with seven grantee and partner organizations, representing a range of organizational sizes, focuses, and ages, complemented by a non-anonymous end-of-year survey conducted by our in-house Knowledge and Impact team.

January 15, 2025/

Embedding Community in Tech: Caroline Sinders on Building Inclusive Networks and Harnessing Collective Action to Challenge the Industry

Caroline Sinders is a machine-learning-design researcher and artist, exploring the intersections of technology, society, and public good. They recently sat down with Siegel Research Manager Madison Snider to discuss the interests that lead them to their interdisciplinary work and why collaboration is so important to it.

January 8, 2025/

Meet Our 2024-2025 Siegel Research Fellows

Siegel Family Endowment is proud to announce the 2024-2025 cohort of Siegel Research Fellows. This extraordinary group includes researchers, academics, and policy experts whose work spans diverse fields such as technology ethics, economic democracy, social media dynamics, and AI governance.

December 19, 2024/Big Ideas, News, Reflections

The Time Has Come For Us to be Unreasonable: Our 2024 Year in Review

As we reflect on the past year, it’s clear that artificial intelligence has dominated discussions across various domains. What surprises us, however, is not the volume of conversation but rather its lack of nuance. Having navigated many cycles of technological development, we recognize the urgent need to move beyond the simplistic “gloom vs. doom” narrative. Instead, we must critically examine what these technologies can do, what they cannot, and—most importantly—what we truly need from them.

December 17, 2024/News

Siegel Family Endowment Awards Over $16.3 Million to Strengthen Workforce Innovation, Infrastructure, and Philanthropy

Our latest grants reaffirm our commitment to building a more inclusive technological future by supporting comprehensive research, shaping human-centered policies, and fostering community-driven innovation to ensure these advancements benefit everyone.

December 10, 2024/Research

From Oscilloscopes to AI Policy: Building a Foundation of Public AI Understanding with Eleanor Tursman

Eleanor Tursman, a Siegel Fellow from 2022 to 2024, serves as an Emerging Technologies Researcher at The Aspen Institute, focusing on the intersection of novel technologies, public education, and public policy. They recently sat down with Siegel Emerging Tech Advisor Eryk Salvaggio to discuss their journey and work on AI primers, literacy, and interdisciplinary approaches to ecosystem change

December 5, 2024/News

Announcing the Phase 2 Learning Landscape Winners

Siegel Family Endowment and the Walton Family Foundation are thrilled to announce five Phase 2 winners that will receive $200,000 each and advance to the Phase 3 incubator in the Learning Landscapes Challenge. These winners emerged from an exceptional cohort of 40 Phase 2 accelerator teams with transformative visions for K-12 educational infrastructure.

December 3, 2024/Big Ideas, Research

Black-oriented EdTech and public interest technology: a framework for accessible and ethically designed technology for K-12 students

Read new Siegel In-House Research Fellow Symon Campbell’s latest publication in Journal of Integrated Global STEM analyzing three K-12 Black-oriented EdTech platforms developed by Black women—KaiXR, Reconstruction, and TunTimo—leverage public interest technology principles to address educational inequities and counter racial biases in mainstream EdTech.

November 21, 2024/Big Ideas

A Public Interest Agenda For The Technological Gilded Age

How can we build a resilient public interest technology movement that withstands shifts in administration and power? Siegel President & Executive Director Katy Knight lays out her vision for change in her latest article as a Forbes Nonprofit Council member.

November 21, 2024/Case Studies, From Our Grantees

Building a Human-Centric Data Economy: Mozilla’s Data Futures Lab

Data Futures Lab, a project of the Mozilla Foundation, served as an experimental space for developing new approaches to data stewardship. Its goal was to build tools and communities designed to offer such better ways—ways that give greater control and agency to people. In so doing, the project sought to advance policies, approaches, and tools that prioritize data co-creation, ownership, and stewardship in ways that benefit a diverse and inclusive public. Read more in our capstone case study.

November 12, 2024/Big Ideas

Event Recap: Doing Tech Together

During this year’s United Nations High-Level Week, we hosted Tech Together – a gathering of 200+ funders, mission-aligned investors, and thought leaders for a full-day event aimed at inspiring new ideas and catalyzing partnerships to shape the next evolution of a global public interest tech network. Watch featured panels and speakers, and read out takeaways.