This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · With funding from Richmond Global Compass, the Social Progress Imperative will be launching a new initiative to research the influences of social and environmental factors on…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Zerifa Radlein-Grant left her home in Jamaica to come to North Carolina and teach third grade. In an interview with EdSurge, Radlein-Grant explains how she uses technology and live…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Each year, 100,000 people are killed from snakebites. In an interview with Devex, David Williams, chair of the WHO Working Group on Snakebite Envenoming describes the overlooked…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Chalkbeat reports that New York City’s education department will discuss new proposals to integrate District 3 middle schools with Upper West Side middle schools within the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · A student in the UK has dropped out of school after seeing that her studies would go over 21 hours a week—the limit set by the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Food for the Poor, the leading hunger-relief charity, is facing criticism due to speculation that the organization is inflating its total donations to make their ‘5 percent’…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Critical Time Intervention is a program aimed at preventing recurrent homelessness for severely mentally ill individuals and has been rated a top tier program that is worthy…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Chef Suzy DeYoung founded LaSoupe, a nonprofit organization that collects leftover produce in order to make soup and then freeze and re-distribute it in an effort to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • At the Mission Investors Exchange National Conference in early May, community foundations discussed the practice of impact investing and brought up key questions about how to achieve…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The author writes about her experience attending a workshop on ‘B Corporations and Doing Business for Good’ in which they discussed the success and challenges of running …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • International foundations have the choice on whether or not to implement donor collaboration strategies that will help advance development work. But they still have the choice to ‘DIY’…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Arabella Advisors announces the creation of the Heartland Fund in conjunction with the Franciscan Sisters and the Wallace Global Fund. The aim is to build up communities…