Building an Equitable Innovation Economy: Access to Empowering Social Connections
Our series Building an Equitable Innovation Economy asks how we might build innovative capacity that can bring more people into high-growth industries.
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Building an Equitable Innovation Economy: Financing Lifelong Skilling
We explore three pillars that set a stage where innovation can emerge: community-driven innovation, the sustainable financing of lifelong skilling and access to empowering social connections.
Building an Equitable Innovation Economy: Fostering Community-Driven Innovation
Looking at the landscape of innovation environments today, you see an increasing concentration of high-growth, “good jobs” within industries and within certain cities.
Introducing Our Workforce Strategy Series: Building an Equitable Innovation Economy
While innovation may be measured by productivity or patents, innovative capacity is seeded by access to skills building, collaborative and inclusive environments, and more.
Reflections on 2021 from Katy Knight, Executive Director
As we transition into the new year, I’m grateful for the chance to reflect on the lessons and insights that have guided our work during another year of unprecedented change.
Coding as a New Literacy
In response to the growing relevance of coding and computer programming to lucrative industries, we’ve seen a proliferation of learn-to-code initiatives and boot camps that prepare students for careers as programmers and computer scientists.
Building the World We Deserve: A New Framework for Infrastructure
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.
Context is Key: Building Trust in Grantmaking
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.
Context is Key: Where is the Work Happening?
Our inquiry driven approach sets us up to provide grantees with targeted, strategic funding and thought partnership that reflects the conditions where they work.
Context is Key
Learn more about the considerations that we take into account as we develop strong working relationships with our grantees
Context is Key: Who’s Doing the Work?
In my role as SFE’s Executive Director, one of the core philosophies that I ask our team to keep top of mind is the belief that “context is key.”