This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Through the digitization of about 1.3 million files dating back to the 1600s, city leaders in Salem, MA learned that one issue has remained top-of-mind for residents throughout the centuries:…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have been dire around the world, and resource-rich countries are no exception. Arguably, lower-income resource-dependent countries face the direst challenges. A “perfect storm” of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the aftermath of COVID-19, which exposed so many of the racial inequalities in our society, local and state governments cannot simply offer an inferior version of what came before.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. From last year’s protests by Google employees to this summer’s worker walkouts at Wayfair, advocacy from within the rank-and-file of corporations has made headlines in recent years. But as Jerry Davis…
Giving Compass’ Take: • A report from the 17 Rooms secretariat uses the framework of the UN Sustainable Development goals to identify four “Great Transitions” that the world is making…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the 1930s, as laws were passed to exclude Black people from generating wealth through homeownership, racist investor regulations were created for the same purpose, with the Securities and Exchange…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Blockchain technology has been proposed — and is being piloted — for all manner of supply chain applications, particularly for verifying the provenance of source of materials, commodities, food or…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Just about every major arts institution — from the Guggenheim to the Louvre — has received sizable funding from the Sackler family. Until recently, this arts patronage was how most…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The year 2020 broke disaster records across the country in destructive and expensive ways. The Atlantic had so many hurricanes, meteorologists ran out of tropical storm names for only the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Impact bonds, a subset of outcomes-based contracts, involve multiple partners and purport to create more flexibility and incentives for service providers in adapting to changed circumstances. Historically, these contracts have…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Roughly one-quarter of adults believe they are financially worse off now than at the beginning of the pandemic. However, not all generations have experienced the COVID-19 economic recession equally. In March and April,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Kim Wright-Violich is a Managing Partner at Tideline, an impact investing consulting firm, and a member of the ImpactAssets Board of Directors. Her career in financial services, philanthropy, and academia…