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    Why Philanthropic Organizations Need to Work Together

    Philanthropy News Digest Nov 8, 2021

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Derrick Feldmann, writing for Philanthropy News Digest, discusses the importance of philanthropic organizations working collaboratively in an effort to create new meaningful partnerships. • How will…

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    The Importance of Broadband in America

    The Brookings Institution

    For the vast majority of us, broadband has become so commonplace in our professional, personal, and social lives that we rarely think about how much we depend on it. Yet…

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    Land Conservation Starts From the Bottom Up in India’s Commons

    Stanford Social Innovation Review Nov 7, 2021

    “What do we see at the village level?” asked Jagveer Singh, of GVMNL, an NGO in Rajasthan, in India. “Encroachment is increasing, and regulatory authorities aren’t doing much. People tell…

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    What Creates Cultural Divides?

    The Naked Scientists

    In 1994, a teenager from Dayton, Ohio, found himself at the centre of a major international controversy… Michael Fay, then eighteen, was living with his mother and stepfather in Singapore…

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    The Solution to Crime Isn’t Mass Incarceration

    Brookings Nov 5, 2021

    In his 2000 book “The America We Deserve,” future President Donald J. Trump argued that “we don’t have too many people in prison. Quite the contrary.” Trump added, “The next…

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    Philanthropy Helps to Support Refugee-centered Leadership

    Stanford Social Innovation Review

    As tens of thousands of Afghans have been forced to flee their country over the last few months, I’ve been listening to Afghans in the United States, worrying both for…

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    Why We Need Local Journalism

    City Journal

    Last year, you wrote The Forgotten, a book about the role that Luzerne County, Pa., played in the 2016 election. What should we know about places like Luzerne ahead of…

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    The Challenges of Building Resilient Infrastructure

    RAND Corporation

    When the federal government spends billions of dollars on transportation, water, and other public infrastructure, the expectation is that these projects are being built to last. But over the coming…

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    The Situation With Guantanamo Bay

    Al Jazeera Oct 30, 2021

    Moath al-Alwi was captured by Pakistani forces near the Afghanistan border in December 2001 and given over to the United States military. A Yemeni national, al-Alwi has said he was…

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    How Giving is Changing in the Digital Age

    Alliance Magazine Oct 28, 2021

    Digital systems like mobile phones and networked computers make it ever easier to ask for money and to give it – possibly even too easy, as the Scrooge-like feeling I…

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    AI-driven Therapy Poses Risk for Healthcare Equity

    Brookings Oct 25, 2021

    If you need to treat anxiety in the future, odds are the treatment won’t just be therapy, but also an algorithm. Across the mental-health industry, companies are rapidly building solutions for…

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    Loss of Local News Hurts Democracy

    Futurity

    The internet has revolutionized the way people get news and information. In journalism, the old ways of raising revenue no longer work, and research shows local news is suffering the most. There…

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