This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Breanna Draxler, writing for YES! Magazine, provides an overview of the COVID-19 responses from Germany, New Zealand, Brazil, and Nicaragua to highlight what the United States…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Timothy Bartik explains that place-based policies are needed to drive employment to reduce regional inequality. • How can funders work to create effective place-based policies to drive…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Weihua Li and Humera Lodhi break down how states are tackling (or not tackling) police reform in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. • What role…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Quentin E. Hodgson and Jennifer Kavanagh discuss what is needed to ensure that the 2020 election is secure and that American voters can participate without compromising their health. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Centre for Asian Philanthropy and Society released the Doing Good Index 2020 to highlight the role of the social sector in Asia and the potential for greater impact. …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • At Urban Institute, Rayanne Hawkins, Heather Hahn, and Alena Stern pinpoint how marginalized communities would benefit from making SNAP benefits accessible online during COVID-19. • How has…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Lindsay F. Wiley and Samuel R. Bagenstos expose discriminatory impacts of public health policy failures, which place disproportionate burdens on marginalized communities. • How have rigid public…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • In an excerpt from Dan Heath’s book Upstream, the author explains the “push for zero,” a strategy for change-makers to eliminate issues entirely, starting at the micro level.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Reliable access to clean water and sanitation may seem like a given in the U.S., but for many communities of color — already disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 — a lack…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: •Liz Hipple, Shanteal Lake, and Maria Monroe, at Equitable Growth, explain how Juneteenth reminds us of the work we still have left in the fight for racial…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Public policy work in one’s own country differs fundamentally from public policy work abroad. A U.S. foundation working on domestic public policy has a reasonably complete understanding of the political…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Kudos to the Center for Effective Philanthropy for its recent report, Policy Influence: What Foundations Are Doing and Why, which documents the growing commitment to policy engagement in the philanthropic sector.…