This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • In Berkeley, CA, several restaurants are following a waste management ordinance to reduce the amount of single-use plastic currently used in their establishments. • How can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Youth vs. Apocalypse, a network of young climate justice activists in the San Francisco Bay Area, is planning a three-day youth-led digital strike this year for…
Giving Compass’ Take: • The Institute for Policy Studies has identified problems with donor-advised funds – namely the potential for hoarding money – and policy recommendations to ensure that this…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Yvette Cabrera reports that environmental groups are responding to the EPA’s rollback of environmental protections during COVID-19 with a lawsuit. • How can funders support efforts to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Tom Vander Ark reports that social media platforms can be used to bring about social change by enhancing turnout, making campaigns go viral, and organizing communities. …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Julie Battilana and Marissa Kimsey explain that the pathway to social change requires several distinct steps, each requiring different skillsets. Identifying your skill sets can help to place you and your organization…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Here are four examples of the largest education philanthropy foundations are addressing school closures due to COVID-19. • How can individual donors contribute to the education…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Susan B. Sorenson, director of the Ortner Center on Violence & Abuse discusses the challenges for victims of domestic violence and the subsequent fear amid the COVID-19…
Giving Compass’ Take: • In this video, Kathryn Edwards, associate economist with the RAND Corporation, outlines how coronavirus is affecting employment and economic development in the United States, suggesting that unemployment…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Small businesses contribute to local city culture but require serious recovery funding to sustain that culture and economic development in communities during COVID-19. • What is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Shortly after reports showed how humans have led numerous species to the brink of extinction, the Trump administration has passed legislation weakening the Endangered Species Act and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Zach Boren writes about the necessity for new United States policy to sustain apprenticeships through the pandemic and its ensuing economic fallout. • With so many…