This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Danielle Nierenberg and Emily Payne explain that if women farmers were given equal access to the needed resources, they could increase food production by up to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Betsy Gardner highlights Tulsa’s innovative the Urban Data Pioneers program that brought community members together to compile and analyze data about the city’s most pressing issues.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Here are some of the key outcomes from the latest climate talks in early December at the COP25, hosted in Madrid, Spain. • How can donors…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Kristen Cambell at Medium explores citizenship, civility, and philanthropy’s role in bridging divides around complex issues. • How can donors and philanthropists help encourage, cultivate and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Born during the longest civil war in Ethiopia’s history, I grew up witnessing the perils of a dysfunctional political system. Even at the age of seven, politics had a palpable…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Hundreds of thousands of protesters (students, unions, and indigenous groups) gathered in the streets of Bogota, Colombia to protest against the country’s right-wing government of Ivan Duque. …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Dan Cardinali writes that the United States can restore the trust that allows civil society to flourish by emphasizing the values that have long bound us…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Craig Kielburger is the founder of Free the Children, a movement to stop the process of child labor around the world. Kielburger’s story starts when he…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Daniele Selby and Olivia Kestin discuss the photography of David Goldblatt, who recorded the day-to-day life of South Africans under apartheid. • How do projects like this inform contemporaries and historians?…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In an increasingly divisive society—where politics seem to dominate public as well as private discourse—what would it be like to hold civil conversations in our own families and communities? And…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Heather Villanueva explains how More Equitable Democracy helped to pass a bill to end prison gerrymandering in Washington State. • How can other states learn from Washington’s efforts?…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Although technology has made life easier, the rapid advancements have exacerbated existing inequalities. Here, Urban Institute explains why leaders need better data and tools to make…