This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Writing for Fast Company, Suzanne DiBianca explains the importance of creating a carbon-neutral future and provides four easy steps for businesses to lead the way. · How…
Create intentional pathways to social justice work through organizing: Creating intentional pathways requires investments in partnerships and collaborations between schools and community-based organizations, universities and employment training institutes that build…
Giving Compass’ Take: • In Additive Manufacturing in 2040: Powerful Enabled, Disruptive Threat, RAND Corporation explores the potential for 3D printing (additive manufacturing) to threaten security through weapon proliferation and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Derrick Feldmann, writing for PhilanTopic, discusses how to give supporters an identity and build commitment to an organization. • How can this help nonprofits get donors to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Writing for the Manhattan Institute, Brown University’s Glenn C. Loury examines the complex causes behind persistent racial inequality in America and explains why racial inequality is an…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Johanna Calle explains that immigrant communities require support across the country, not just in border states. · How can philanthropists and funders provide better support for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Here are three models that give citizens a voice by encouraging participatory democracy. • What are the benefits? Do you have opportunities in your community for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Pacific Standard talks with Amy Westervelt, developer of the Invisible Labor Calculator, about the gender pay gap and helping women determine the monetary value of their uncompensated “invisible” labor.…
Giving Compass’ Take: • Prosperity Now lays out the ways in which public policy precludes prosperity and how better policies can help people break out of the cycle of poverty. …
Giving Compass’ Take: • The Annie E. Casey Foundation breaks down state trends in child well-being using the most recent data, which they compare with the 1990 version of the same…
Giving Compass’ Take: • Alexander Mayer shares MDRC’s findings on programs working to improve outcomes for low-income college students. He emphasizes the importance of integrated, long-term programs for success. • How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · For the 2,200 inmates set to be released next month under the First Step Act, White House Officials are working to line up job opportunities and housing for each.…