Foundation Leadership Roundtable

2026 · April 25–26 · Chicago + Online

Foundation Leadership Roundtable

Two days. Six forums. Five organisations. A first conversation about how we work together.

Proceedings

Public summaries of the six forums of the 2026 Roundtable. Produced from full session transcripts. Specific numerical claims have not all been independently verified — see the methodology footnote on the about page.

All six forums

Sandboxes

Permeable incubators for best practices. Sue Seccombe’s framing in the closing forum: shared workspaces where work can grow without any one organisation owning the result. Two sandboxes today, plus a capability commons and a watchlist.

Coordination surfaces

The forums

All six
“What we're looking for is something like a place where things can incubate… these sandboxes need to almost be structured, like the study group portal, where there isn't really an organisation that owns the fluidity of what comes in and out.”
Sue Seccombe, Forum 5

Coordination surfaces

All

Convened annually

A beginning, not a conclusion.

Mo Siegel committed to convening the Roundtable annually. The closing forum produced one sandbox concept, one task force, and a number of open invitations.

About the Roundtable