Help Us Ask the Right Questions
We’re looking for a Director of Research and a Director of Grants Management to help guide us towards answers for our key questions, and guide the next phase of our inquiry.
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Framing the Big Picture
As responsible grantmakers, we make sure that SFE’s support goes to grantees whose work advances practice in each of our interest areas, improves our understanding of the key challenges we face, and presents potential solutions.
Stop Differentiating Between Program and Administrative Funding
If there’s one thing that we know is a prerequisite for running an effective program, it’s having the right administrative structures in place to keep things up and running.
Siegel Family Endowment Appoints Katy Knight Executive Director
The board of Siegel Family Endowment (SFE) has announced Katy Knight as the organization’s new Executive Director.
Uniquely Human Insights from SFE’s Grantee Network
What human qualities can’t be replicated by machines? And how can we apply these traits in an automated world to create a better future?
What Role Does Philanthropy Play in Creating Social Change?
Last month, Thea Charles (SFE’s Head of Knowledge and Impact) joined panelists at NYU’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service for a discussion on social change and philanthropy.
Mozilla’s Open Science Fellows at the Halfway Point
Learn more about Mozilla’s 2018-2019 Open Science Fellows, whose work is focused on six areas of open science practice: open software, open hardware, open ethics, and open data, open publishing, and open skills.
Today’s Strategies, Tomorrow’s Workforce: Technological Change in the Workplace
SFE is taking on big questions about the future of work through our funding partnership with Future Workforce Now (FWN), a program that explores the implications of technological change for state and local economies.
What Is Effective Philanthropy?
We believe that strengthening the nonprofit sector as a whole through practicing Effective Philanthropy can happen through supporting individual organizations, sharing lessons with others, and engaging our peers to learn about best practices.
Scratch 3.0 is here!
One of the biggest updates in the Scratch universe to date brings with a number of new features that will help Scratchers do and create more than ever before.
Siegel Family Endowment and CSforALL Announce New Partnership
CSforALL and Siegel Family Endowment (SFE) announced a partnership today that will increase access to high-quality computational thinking and computer science education for all students in the US.