This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Funding for UNHCR, the United Nations refugee agency, is becoming more limited, and the organization needs to look for alternative support from countries in the EU. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • EdSurge interviews three experts about persuasive technology and the potentially harmful effects it could have on the education space. • Experts think that inventors creating persuasive technology need…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The author offers insight as to how forward-thinking leaders can employ more typically feminine qualities such as receptivity, connection, curiosity, and listening which will help advance leadership roles and responsibility. …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • A panel of California teachers and administrators found that a 32 percent increase in funding for California schools is necessary to provide all students in the state with…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Audrey M. Provenzano explains how work requirements for Medicaid that would increase the burden on poor individuals who are already struggling to pay bills and get…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Jill Hobson of IMS Global explains how districts can develop a strategic plan to ensure EdTech interoperability, allowing faculty and students to experience the full benefits of the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Mars, the parent company of M&Ms, is committing $1 billion through 2025 to eliminate child labor and pursue sustainable and ethical supply chains. • How will Mars stay…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • This Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors report details how specific organizations and approaches have been able to scale solutions and produce systems change. • One of the biggest…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Stanford Social Innovation Review discusses new research that shows the benefits to strengthening the complex environments enabling local innovation. • From sharing assets to developing new…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • News Deeply talks with Carolyn Savoldelli, a research analyst at the World Resources Institute, about her efforts to connect the vast amount of open ocean data to scientists and policymakers…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Stanford Social Innovation Review examines three business structures that let social enterprises scale without sacrificing purpose: perpetual purpose trusts, worker co-ops and benefit corporations. • How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • In this excerpt from Can Business Save the Earth? authors Michael Lenox and Aaron Chatterji outline an innovation model to create sustainable disruption. • How can funders best participate…