This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Five 10-year-old boys that survived the Mendocino Complex Fires are now offering to help youth in Butte County who have also experienced trauma. • How can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Detroit Free Press interviews Amy Nederlander about her organization, L!FE Leaders Inc., and how she uses her previous Broadway experiences to empower, mentor, give confidence and a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Rachel Tompa explains that childhood cancer survivors report long-term impacts of the disease on their health and wellbeing later in life. • How can philanthropy support research…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. How do you get young people to express themselves? How do you encourage them to think creatively? And in what ways can you create space for them to share the…
Giving Compass’ Take: • Chalkbeat discusses the power of student run podcasts as a way to get teens to talk about tough topics. • Mental and emotional health need to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • In this interview with Prof. Nell K. Duke, Kate Stringer asks about the benefits of project-based learning, how it can be implemented well and how it…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · The authors explain the need for education to adopt a ‘whole child’ approach and incorporate social and emotional learning and development. · How are schools incorporating social and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Here’s what we’re reading: ‘Disconnected youth’ is a growing crisis About one in eight young people in America are considered to be “disconnected”, which refers to those young people who…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Amal Ahmed at The Atlantic discusses new research which found that the stress from dealing with natural disasters has adverse effects on pregnant mothers and their infants born…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Karin Taylor is a philanthropist and the owner of Weisberg Stables, where she runs an equestrian program that helps veterans, disabled youth, and children develop critical…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass Take: · Writing for Education Dive, Linda Jacobson addresses the importance of including the arts in ESSA accountability plans and explains how Illinois, Connecticut, and Kentucky have included the arts…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • In this story from GOOD Magazine, author Heidi Lux discusses the second “Janie’s House” for neglected and abused girls which just opened in Memphis with the…