The Learning Landscapes Challenge, sponsored by Siegel Family Endowment and the Walton Family Foundation, will help changemakers integrate social, digital, and physical infrastructure to bridge the learning of today with the learning of tomorrow.
Donor Name: Siegel Family Endowment
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Awards and Prizes
Deadline: 05/14/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The multiphase challenge will provide entrants with funding, expertise, and access to a collaborative community of like-minded partners that can help them scale their solutions.
The Learning Landscapes Challenge will unfold across three phases designed to identify and support infrastructural concepts and entrants with the potential to achieve tangible, transformative impact — while laying the foundation to scale innovative learning beyond a single community. The challenge will support entrants to refine their solutions throughout the challenge. Successful delivery solutions will incorporate multiple dimensions of infrastructure or use infrastructure in a novel way.
Prize Information
The Learning Landscapes Challenge will award up to $2.2 million across three phases. Phase 1 is open to all eligible entrants. Phase 2 is exclusively open to Phase 1 winners, and Phase 3 is exclusively open to Phase 2 winners.

Phase 1

Up to 40 winners will each receive $5,000 and an exclusive invitation to the Phase 2 accelerator.

Phase 2

Up to five winners will each receive $200,000 and an exclusive invitation to the Phase 3 incubator

Phase 3

Up to two grand-prize winners will receive $500,000 each.

Eligibility Criteria 

Any party entering the Challenge (whether an individual, group of individuals, single entity, or group of entities) must designate a single individual or entity as the “lead” (for entities, a point of contact affiliated with said entity must also be specified). All Entrant team members’ names and affiliations must be clearly identified in the Entrant’s submission for the Entrant to be eligible. Failure to follow this procedure as outlined on the Challenge Website will disqualify the Entrant’s submission. To be eligible to win a monetary prize in the Challenge, the lead individual or entity must maintain a primary place of operations in the United States.
All Entrant team members must be 18 or older to participate. Entrants are not eligible to win a monetary prize in the Challenge if any named team member is an employee, owner, director, trustee, officer or contractor of SFE, WFF, the Fiscal Agent, or the Administrator, is a Challenge reviewer or judge, is supporting the development or execution of the Challenge in any capacity, or is an immediate family member (spouse, child, step-child, sibling, step-sibling, parent, step-parent) or person living in the same household (whether or not related) of any individual described in this paragraph. Note: The members of an individual’s household include any other person who shares the same residence as such individual for at least three months out of the year.
Current or past recipients of grant or other non-contractual funding from SFE, WFF, Fiscal Agent, and/or the Administrator are eligible to win a monetary prize in the Challenge, provided they meet all other eligibility requirements and comply with all Official Rules herein.
Phase 1 is open to any individual, group of individuals, single entity, or group of entities that meet the above eligibility criteria and any other criteria set forth on the Challenge Website; however, Phases 2 and 3 will require the lead Entrant to be a nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) tax exempt status as a public charity (excluding 509(a)(3) Type IIII supporting organizations that are not functionally integrated). Prior to receiving the prize money in Phase 2, any Phase 1 winner that does not already meet this requirement will be encouraged and receive technical support to seek out an eligible public charity with which to establish a partnership.
Eligibility to participate in any Challenge phase after Phase 1 is restricted to designated winners of the preceding Challenge phase, at the sole discretion of SFE and WFF.
In order to be eligible to receive a prize for any Phase, Entrants must have complied with all requirements to participate in relevant activities for that Phase.  For Phase 2, this will include participation in a virtual accelerator with at least one representative from each Phase 1 winner attending weekly virtual technical assistance sessions. For Phase 3, this will include participation in two in-person events: a “boot camp” in Fall 2024 to start the incubator and a Demo Day in Spring/Summer 2025 to present final concepts to judges, partners, and the public. These dates and format are preliminary and may be changed. Additionally, if selected as a Phase 1 winner, winning Entrants must agree to participate fully in Phase 2 to be eligible to receive the Phase 1 prize award. Likewise, if selected as a Phase 2 winner, winning Entrants must agree to participate fully in Phase 3 to be eligible to receive the Phase 2 prize award.

For more information, visit Siegel Family Endowment.