This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Melinda Gates is imploring tech companies to help increase wireless access and invest in programs that will help developing countries. • How will the increase in CSR initiatives…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Bill Gates is funding startups that are experimenting with alternative forms of energy in an effort to battle climate change. • Other significant business entities such as BlackRock Global…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Grant Cornwell argues that liberal arts education is an avenue for avoiding the damage of lies and misinformation that permeate our culture today. • What are the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Joe McCarthy reports that the Trump administration plans to weaken or eliminate two rules that regulate methane to reduce global warming. • What is the cost/benefit breakdown…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Linda Jacobson discusses how First 5 – early childhood education funding provided by a tax on tobacco – is losing revenue even as it identifies successful interventions.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Jake Schneider and Darrell M. West explain how governments and NGOs can help private investments in global health R&D to grow and produce results by increasing…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Fast Company reports on two initiatives — The Female Founder School and Ready, Set, Raise — which are trying to help women start more businesses and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Aniket Shah provides a framework for impact investors who want to be involved in profitable sustainable investing. • How does this assessment align, or not, with your own…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Kris Putnam-Walkerly explains how philanthropy can bolster social enterprise as an investment tool uniquely situated to take risks for social returns. • How can funders work to form…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Sara Potler LaHayne explains how her organization, Move This World, came to the decision to shift from a nonprofit to a for-profit model in order to achieve…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • At a recent symposium convened by Capital One in Plano, Texas, researchers and practitioners discussed how local leaders could utilize technology and data to create more opportunities in education, the workplace, and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Suzanne McKechnie Klahr, writing for Medium, discusses the hardships of working in the social sector with the current nonprofit model. However, she believes that changes to…