This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Benefit Corporations, social enterprises, and nonprofit organizations all function and find success differently. Tom Frick explains how 1% for the Planet, a Vermont based nonprofit, follows a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Bridgespan Group interviewed 10 nonprofit organizations about their experiences in hiring sales teams. Most of them saw success when their sales team consisted of members with a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Women’s Funding Network recently conducted research on their grantmaking practices, which have an inclusive, participatory, and open style. They claim that this type of grantmaking is yielding…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Understanding a problem is key to addressing it, and data is the best place to start. • What is the most important data to collect? How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Some evidence suggests that students who took the NCES test may have been handicapped because they were not comfortable with the electronic format. • Are these…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The seniors I talked with came to philanthropy through many different backgrounds. Most learned philanthropy from parents who took their community and philanthropic responsibilities very seriously. Many joined their family’s…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Islamic Development Bank is creating a fund dedicated towards social innovation and entrepreneurship. This fund will promote more access to technology, innovation, and the sustainable development…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Many non-profits are underfunded and under-resourced which makes it more difficult to facilitate change. However, the Taproot Foundation is offering the technological resources that non-profits need in order…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Volunteering offers many benefits, from connecting with the community to learning new skills, but what drives a techie to give their time? Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) decided to find…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Amazon has taken strides to reduce waste and fossil fuel use, but it has an opportunity to go far beyond those areas. • What should consumers expect…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Using cryptocurrency, one individual is incentivizing the public to donate to the local homeless population. • This is an inventive way to use cryptocurrency, but the philanthropic…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Although tax advantages and giving efficiencies are incentives to establish a foundation, most donors say they formed their family foundation for two basic reasons. The first is to provide a…