This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Causeartist profiles a company called Uulala, which seeks to streamline mobile payments for medical care through blockchain technology, expanding opportunities for populations that typically don’t have…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • +SocialGood explores the use of drones to assist in humanitarian aid missions, including quicker deliveries, aerial monitoring and mapping better routes. • With the United Nations…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Cary Lou and Gina Adams explain how better data and understanding of their citizens can help educators and policymakers improve early childhood education. • How can philanthropists help…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Jessie Hellmann explains how a successful ballot initiative to expand Medicaid in Maine inspired red states to partner with the Fairness Project and attempt to do the same. …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · To achieve universal coverage and tackle rising costs, Governing Magazine reports that California lawmakers have endorsed the idea of single-payer health care. · Is single-payer health care an…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Urban Institute reports on a recent event held by Google discussing the future of work in America and provides four ideas to help prepare for the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Unfortunately, a majority of U.S. early childhood work is based on program-first approaches operating in silos. With references to Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Project Evident addresses the differences between…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · EdSource reports on California’s new fully online community college and how it will break ground in higher ed with productive and targeted programs for career-oriented certificates. ·…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Food doesn’t just nourish our bodies — it sustains our souls. And in the case of several social justice-focused organizations located in the Pacific Northwest, breaking bread with others is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • In this post on B the Change, an agricultural activist shares her experiences trading labor for knowledge, and how bartering can help shift our perceptions about…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Stanford Social Innovation Review discusses why social and environmental assessments of private enterprise needs to go beyond avoiding risk, and take into account many different factors,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Ryan Cruse explains how activists from the Surfrider Foundation are working with restaurants to reduce the use of single-use plastics that often end up on the beaches. •…