This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • On Nonprofit AF, Vu Le discusses the concept of fairness as it relates to nonprofit work and concludes that it’s often diametrically opposed to equity. Those…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • As states adopt ESSA standards that include chronic absenteeism, some educators worry that these standards will encourage expulsions which are disproportionately distributed to black students. • How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Mary Moran and fellow organizer Henry Jones founded Our Voice Nuestra Voz to help Latino parents advocate for the needs of their kids in the independent schools…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • As the Trump Administration attempts to shift the focus of the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program towards abstinence-only education, groups using evidence-based methods granted funding under the Obama Administration are…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • A new study by Mathematica indicates that students who attended Democracy Prep – a charter school network with a focus on civic engagement – have a higher rate…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Read the headlines in your local paper and you’ll likely be deluged with problems. But where are the answers? Look closer and you can find them, thanks in part to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The passionate generosity of countless American families has inspired – and continues to inspire – extraordinary gifts. Indeed, we may know many of these families more by their philanthropy than by…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Aspen Institute interviews Maria Hadden, Executive Director of Our City Our Voice to understand her perspective on civic engagement and it’s significance in the nonprofit sector. • How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Here’s what we’re reading: LGBTQ discrimination is driving hundreds of thousands of kids into homelessness Tricia Raikes writes about Chapin Hall’s new study for Salon, outlining ways to address…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Philanthropic Enterprise Act of 2017 allows private foundations to own a business under specific conditions, including the condition that 100% of the profits go to charity. …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This is not fake news: People are losing their faith in journalism. In a 2018 poll conducted by the consultancy firm Edelman about trust in the media, 59 percent said…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Writing for Social Velocity, Building Movement Project Co-Director Sean Thomas-Breitfeld discusses the importance of examining racial inequity in the nonprofit world and taking steps to make things…