This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Christy Wolfe states that the key barriers for charter schools are the maintenance of school buildings. She suggests that the government can help by altering their funding…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • In an effort to improve the lives of orphans, JK Rowling’s charity, Lumos works to raise awareness of poor treatment and change damaging policies. • How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Cities and states often offer tax incentives to businesses to encourage them to bring jobs and economic growth the region. However, this process is not always transparent…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Aspen Institute relays three important takeaways about civic engagement from interviews with government officials, tech start-ups founders, and community organizing practitioners. • Good civic engagement relies…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Food Tank discusses the benefits of agroecology, an innovative solution plan that employs creative agricultural practices and recycling tactics to help ensure that everyone on the planet…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • In honor of the 50th anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King Jr., two reverends are resurrecting the Poor People’s Campaign. They plan to host a series of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Jean Twenge highlights the reasons why teens are more likely to care about gun control issues. She compares multi-decade research, concluding that bullying, drinking, and safety issues…
Giving Compass’ Take: • These suggestions from 2015 remain relevant today. There are many improvements that can be made to the criminal justice system to reduce imprisonment rates. • How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The “payout rule” refers to the fact that, by law, private nonoperating foundations must distribute five percent of the value of their net investment assets annually in the form of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • School choice advocates often rely on a bleak narrative of traditional public schools to prop up their argument, but is this tactic alienating potential allies? • How can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Student activism is on the rise right now. At Howard University in Washington, D.C., student group HU Resist has occupied the administration building for seven days now…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Stanford Social Innovation Review takes a look at the global wealth gap (via a World Inequality Lab report) and concludes that more collaboration among world leaders…