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
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.
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.
Over the past two years of research and conversations with partners across the field, we’ve realized that our nation’s infrastructure is due for a reset.
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.
Over the last few months, we’ve worked alongside and collected findings from a number of grantees as they refined their strategies and redesigned their programming in response to the upheavals of the COVID-19 pandemic and other aspects of our constantly changing world
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 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.
In this installment in our ongoing series, we’ll explore the information that we share about ourselves in order to keep our new relationships grounded in mutual respect and understanding.
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.
Our inquiry driven approach sets us up to provide grantees with targeted, strategic funding and thought partnership that reflects the conditions where they work.