This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • New polling data shows falling support – and growing opposition – for school choice, possibly a result of the ‘Trump effect’, according to Deborah Beck. • How can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Trump Administration is pivoting away from Obama-Era regulations that were borrower-friendly to servicer-friendly policies. This shift includes preventing states from imposing their own rule on loan…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Corpus Christi initiated a busing program in response to the Supreme Court decision that desegregation applied to Latino children, as well as black children. The program underwent several…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • IRIN reports on the political instability and violence in Burundi, where citizens — who are already suffering from extreme poverty — are fleeing the country en…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Wellcome discusses the process in which they decide who to fund and why, emphasizing that everything must be grounded in sound science, but also that projects…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Cities are using behavioral science to create nudges that encourage individuals to partake in public services, increasing the use of these services. • How can philanthropy…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Finland’s basic income pilot provided stipends to unemployed individuals, not the working poor, differentiating it from true universal basic income. The trail was not extended after…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Despite the NAEP results showing little to no gains for eighth-grade students, there is one report that examined the impact of education at Democracy Prep, a public…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Writing for eJewish Philanthropy, Richard Marker uses a metaphor about street crossings to explain how outcomes and equity still don’t match up. • What are we…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Brookings discusses the widespread anxiety that AI and automation will replace workers in the future, exploring the possible economic and political fallout from that. • How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Second amendment supports walked out of schools on May 2nd in a counter-protest to gun control protests that took place in the wake of the Parkland…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • As Cape Town faced an impending water crisis, the government kicked off the Day Zero campaign to raise awareness about the issue and create water savings,…