This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The author explains the most useful digital marketing tools that nonprofits should take advantage of in order to increase their online presence. • What makes these tools useful?…
Giving Compass’ Take: • In this “How I Did It” podcast, Business Insider interviews Duolingo CEO and crowdsourcing pioneer Von Ahn about his success and his philosophy of getting people…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Farhat Ahmad describes how his EdTech solutions failed one of his students and how personal intervention corrected the situation. • What are the limitations of EdTech,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • As Cape Town faced an impending water crisis, the government kicked off the Day Zero campaign to raise awareness about the issue and create water savings,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Funders can start preparing for the 2018 hurricane season right now to make an impact, instead of waiting to offer reactive help. • What are the most…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. You’ve seen the research: financial returns need not be sacrificed for environmental or social objectives. You recognize the possible benefit of using your foundation’s investment capital to ameliorate the same…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Carla Javits, President & CEO of Coalition organization REDF discusses the accomplishments of REDF, one primary being the Social Innovation Fund which helped local communities work on economic opportunity, youth development…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The authors offer advice to public charter school boards that are run similarly to nonprofit boards, in which they have various expertise and flexibility, but might not…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The author implores edtech financers and investors to understand the challenges of student engagement and attention to classroom lessons, and explain that tech integration is not necessarily the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Asian Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN) delivers a report about what the social investment landscape looks like in 14 Asia-Pacific regions and finds ample opportunities for those…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • On Nonprofit AF, Vu Le discusses the concept of fairness as it relates to nonprofit work and concludes that it’s often diametrically opposed to equity. Those…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • As states adopt ESSA standards that include chronic absenteeism, some educators worry that these standards will encourage expulsions which are disproportionately distributed to black students. • How…