This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • There are social and financial motivations driving gender-lens investing. Creating clear goals, strategies, and metrics are key to succeeding in lifting women up. • What are…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Johnson Amendment allows charitable organizations to be involved in policy creation and advocacy while preventing engagement in partisan campaigns. This system allows organizations to engage…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Truth decay has enormous implications for policy, governance, and society, as we know them. Only through research to understand and coordinated efforts to combat truth decay can we…
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This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Symantec Corp, a cybersecurity company, launched a social initiative that will help protect foster children from identity theft. • Are there other companies focusing money and skills…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Crowdsourcing development workers and utilizing bitcoin micropayments for projects could be potentially beneficial for the development sector. • How can bitcoin influence community mobilization within development work? • Bitcoin…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Finding quality volunteers can be challenging. The article below provides a list of websites that help match volunteers to projects so that volunteers can really utilize…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Sherece Y. West-Scantlebury from the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation writes about how stagnation and inaction has led to a lack of diversity among nonprofit boards. • What is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • TriplePundit reports on the new trend of “unlimited volunteering,” in which companies let employees take off as much time as they want to give back to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Mass incarceration continues to damage American communities. Since fully understanding an issue is the key first step to policy solutions, the information outlined in this document…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • There is a credible threat to the health and safety of religious minorities who previously fled Iran that the United States should take into consideration. • How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Do you have suggestions for web-based tools we can use to help manage our board meetings and communicate with board members? This is a great question! By nature, board meetings…