This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The overhead myth – the assumption that nonprofits using a significant portion of their funding on staff, resources, equipment, data collection, and program design are wasting…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In many ways, a foundation board chair serves as coach, captain, and quarterback. As coach, the chair’s role is to provide guidance to the foundation, trustees, and staff. As captain,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • On Medium, Doteveryone discusses the ways people working in tech can keep to a standard of ethics, offering resources in which they can do so. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Ginny Esposito from The Center for Family Philanthropy discusses the organization’s recent benchmark survey that found many families deciding to spend down and why that’s a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • School districts across the country regularly battle with tech companies over pricing for EdTech that is vital to student success. With high, inconsistent prices districts are constantly struggling…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Impact investing sounds great, but not everyone is doing it well. Self-serving investors may be doing more harm than good. • Can the impact investing community…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Mary Moran and fellow organizer Henry Jones founded Our Voice Nuestra Voz to help Latino parents advocate for the needs of their kids in the independent schools…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Jeff Solomon faces a challenge that very few in the family foundation world have had to achieve: sticking the landing. As the president of The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Writing for Fortune, JP Morgan Chase’s Peter L. Scher urges corporate America to connect with local communities better and expand opportunities for the disadvantaged. • Collaboration,…
Giving Compass’ Take: • In an episode of the podcast Return on Investment, ImpactAlpha discusses what impact investors can do about the opioid addiction crisis in America, specifically when it…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • As the Trump Administration attempts to shift the focus of the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program towards abstinence-only education, groups using evidence-based methods granted funding under the Obama Administration are…
Quick, create a mental picture of a philanthropist. What do you see? An older white man? That’s the picture that pops into most of our heads. And it’s not surprising…