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October 14, 2025/

Shaping AI’s Future Together: Siegel Family Endowment Joins Humanity AI 

We know that philanthropy is strongest when working in collaboration, and right now, there is an opportunity to come together, imagine, and support new ideas about what our future with AI can be. We’re excited to work alongside the Humanity AI advisory board and other coalition members to ensure that AI is developed in ways that protect and enhance human creativity, labor, and security.

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October 13, 2025/

Tech Together 2025: Unlocking improbably good futures 

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.

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September 9, 2025/

Lessons in Innovation, Partnership, and Risk: Reflections on Education Funding from Joshua Elder on the Learning Landscape Challenge

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.

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August 12, 2025/News, Reflections

The Practice of Uncertainty: Our H1 Reflections

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.

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August 4, 2025/

A New Model for Distributing Leadership in Maintenance, Repair, and Care Work

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.

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July 31, 2025/

Announcing the Learning Landscapes Challenge grand-prize winners

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.

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June 10, 2025/Reflections, Research

Independent Research for Improbably Good Futures: Reflections and Takeaways from Our 4th Annual Fellow Convening 

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.

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June 3, 2025/From Our Grantees, Q&A, Research

The Human in the Loop: Pegah Moradi on Automation, Discretion, and the Future of Frontline Work

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.

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May 28, 2025/From Our Grantees, Q&A

Home Growing Community Leaders in New York City Neighborhoods

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 […]

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May 22, 2025/Q&A, Research

Q&A with Siegel Research Fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology, Ruchika Joshi

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 […]

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May 13, 2025/Big Ideas

We Can’t Afford To Wait For Federal AI Regulation, Luckily We Don’t Have To

In every era of rapid technological change, there come moments of deliberation: wait for policy or lead through practice?

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