This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Companies are looking to attract and retain talent through education benefits that help employees pay for a degree. Companies offer a variety of packages, but they all…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Northwest Area Foundation was pleasantly surprised with the ease with which they found impactful investment opportunities in small communities that offered market rate returns. • What is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • While same-sex marriage has been legal for several years, LQBTQ couples continue to face other forms of legal discrimination. “Beyond I Do” aims to highlight and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Public broadband is springing up in smaller cities providing residents and businesses with cheap, fast, reliable internet that is often better than commercial service in big cities.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The author provides three options to collect social and cultural capital through building a team of networkers, asking questions, and staying committed to donors for the long…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has released information about its planned restructure. Many of the changes are intended to address long-standing concerns of aid professionals. …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • National education progress indicators, like NAEP, inspire reactionary policies that often fall short of the improvement they are intended to achieve. Erin Gohl argues that policymakers need…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • An analysis of European Union climate financing has raised questions about how money is allocated between countries and how those allocations are counted. • Climate projects…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In December 2015, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced he would transfer 99 percent of his Facebook shares—a sum currently valued at $45 billion—to the new Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a philanthropic…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • As impact investing in the development field continues to grow, experts want to make sure that investments in high-risk places are accountable and providing the greatest social…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Wander Working Experience is a co-working vacation tailored specifically for social entrepreneurs to focus on professional development, strategy, networking and community outreach. • How has social entrepreneurship…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Al Jazeera reports on how mobile technology has begun transforming Iran, with some mobile apps disseminating human rights information to citizens. • Organizations in the civil…