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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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?

April 29, 2025/

Students Take the Mic at SXSW EDU

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.

April 23, 2025/

From Lecture-Based Teaching to a Movement That Meets Every Student’s Needs

We sat down with Kareem Farah from Modern Classrooms to learn more about the their instructional model; how and why the organization works with individual teachers; how the initiative plans to scale its approach through district partnerships; and the impact of changing instructional practice for teachers, students, and communities.