This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Blended finance models incorporate philanthropic investment that encourages private sector growth aimed toward achieving the SDGs. • Are international development experts looking toward blended finance models…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • This Futurity post discusses a new study which shows how neighborly outreach and positive attitudes foster stronger community relationships. • How can we develop these neighborhood…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • News Deeply reports on a community-developed savings group in Kenya that is empowering Kenyan women by providing them with financial stability and independence. • How can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Amy Wolf-Vanderbilt explains how gaps in age, gender, and diversity between the Republican and Democratic parties may increse voter discrimination. · How can we address discrimination…
Giving Compass’ Take: • In this podcast from the RAND Corporation, political scientist Jennifer Kavanagh and William P. Getty, president of the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation, discuss the consequences of truth decay…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Kristen Parker reports that research suggests that political polarization has been getting worse since the 1970’s, and will continue to do so. • How can funders work…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Mission Continues transcribes a speech from MSNBC host Chris Hayes at a recent organization event, in which he calls for more people to get together…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The author discusses five revolutionary times that young people showed up to vote across the globe, changing the course of history and shedding light on the importance of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Silicon Valley billionaires are supposedly apocalypse-proofing themselves by buying up land in New Zealand on the Pacific Ring of Fire, the horseshoe curve of geological fault lines…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. What makes a city livable? It’s more than just jobs, schools, culture and weather. It’s knowing your neighbors have your back. That’s because even if a community can provide economic…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • A pledge of commitments worth more than $7.6 billion took place in the months leading up to Global Citizen Week that are going to advance global education,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Rockefeller Foundation discusses the role that technology will play in creating positive change around the world and how we can guard against its misuse. •…