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November 24, 2020/News

Op-Ed: It’s Time to Unlock Rural America’s Assets

To ensure small towns can recover, funders and policymakers must aggressively pilot innovative solutions, with an eye towards scaling successes across similar regions, that help build a new paradigm for geographically inclusive growth.

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November 12, 2020/From Our Grantees

CORI’s Rural Innovation Network is Advancing Tech in Communities Across the Country

CORI recently released the first installment of their video series “The Rural Edge,” highlighting leaders who love the communities where they live, and want to help more people access and participate in the innovation economy.

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November 5, 2020/News

Report Brief: How the Regional Plan Association is Developing a Multidimensional Plan for COVID-19 Recovery in New York City

The Regional Plan Association is creating actionable policy reports that highlight how critical multidimensional infrastructure is to unlocking greater, more equitable impact for all.

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October 28, 2020/News

Event Recap: Panel Hosted by Siegel and Aspen Digital

Siegel Family Endowment and Aspen Digital convened researchers, local leaders and policymakers, funders, and representatives of the private sector to discuss our new framework for multidimensional infrastructure.

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October 22, 2020/News

Pursuit Announces $3 Million in Funding from Siegel to Tackle Systemic Issues Preventing Low-Income Americans from Accessing Training and Career Opportunities in Technology

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

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October 15, 2020/News

Event Recap: Katy Knight and Sal Khan on Infrastructure, the Digital Divide, and More

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.

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October 7, 2020/News

Siegel Family Endowment launches new infrastructure framework to address urgent challenges facing American communities

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.

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October 6, 2020/Big Ideas

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.

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September 24, 2020/News

Siegel Family Endowment Joins Feedback Labs’ Feedback Incentives Learning Group

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.

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September 17, 2020/From Our Grantees

Supporting Grantees Through Long Term Planning and Unpredictability

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

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September 10, 2020/News

Event Recap: Panel on the Future of Learning at the Intersection of Technology and Design

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?

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