This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Nation reports on the 1st National Forum on Philanthropy in Pakistan, which included a call to fund more education initiatives for children in need and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Properly designing and assessing programming to prevent violent extremism can help to increase success. Each government must decide what process makes sense for themselves, these guiding questions can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Libby Schaaf, mayor of Oakland, proposes plans to make her city more equitable and inclusive by addressing access to quality education and justice reform. • Libby Schaaf’s ideas…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • An article in India Development Review (IDR) argues that India’s social sector is an exclusionary, walled-off community of academics and doesn’t adequately seek out viewpoints of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Truth decay has enormous implications for policy, governance, and society, as we know them. Only through research to understand and coordinated efforts to combat truth decay can we…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • There are many ways for countries to align their existing programs with the SDGs. • How is your government aligning development work with the SDGs? How could…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Co-creation invites the relevant stakeholders of a program – the people it is intended to help – to the design table to build a program that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The sexual exploitation of Haitians by NGO workers in the product of the toxic culture of superiority of outside aid organizations. In order to prevent abuses and provide aid…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Telluride Foundation tried out a pilot program from the Data Culture Project to help the org and its nonprofit partners improve their data collecting practices.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A drug used to treat enlarged prostate or hair loss in men has been shown to have a long-term protective effect against prostate cancer. The study, led by Fred Hutchinson…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. There may be as many as 150-thousand indigenous Latinos in Oregon, with a recent boost from immigrants fleeing organized crime and violence in Guatemala. They are very much under the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Well, sort of. The long answer is more complex than you might expect and private foundations who want to enter this arena must do so with care. The role you…