This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Experts from the Urban Institute’s Housing Finance Policy Center share the issues they will be watching in 2019. • How can funders work to shape housing finance…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Tanvi Misra explores some possible positive and negative effects on unemployment and inequality that a federal jobs guarantee program could have. • What role should the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • In this report from Refugees International, authors Izza Leghtas and Jessica Thea explore how and why Afghan refugees are sometimes facing more difficulties in Turkey than…
Giving Compass’ Take: · Jim Ver Steeg at Futurity talks with Nora Rubel, Thomas Fleischman, and Laura Elenbaas of the University of Rochester about the rise of hate and violence in America. · How has…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • This article by Daniel Gotoff and Celinda Lake from The Marshall Project was published in mid-November, just after the midterm elections and before The First Step…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • This RAND post explores the future of public policy and argues that new tools are needed to effect change. • The new streams of study include…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Farmers are feeling the full effects of the partial government shutdown, which closed U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency offices, delaying many services and payments. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • This InsideSources post explains how history museums might be good safe places for civil discourse across America and help bridge our increasingly-widening divides. • How might…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • This paper from Social Programs That Work details The Minnesota Family Investment Program, which gave welfare recipients that found jobs a 20 percent cash supplement to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • As young legislators stream into statehouses and city hall, Graham Vyse examines their political differences – from each other and older legislators. • What support do…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Chris Talgo offers solutions for American’s civics education crisis: changing the amount, content, and delivery of civics classes. • How can funders help states’ shift their civics…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Akron Civic Commons shows how communities can build trust and foster strong relationships with local actors by investing in shared public spaces. • The author discusses critical lessons…