This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The U.S. Transportation Climate Impact Index highlights which cities are doing the best at helping our climate. • How can funders help get cities the funding and support…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · According to CityLab, America saw a 2.2 percent increase in public transit use towards the second half of 2019, but Laura Bliss reports that the cause of this…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Zoya Teirstein reports that after five years, the climate lawsuit filed by 21 kids, Juliana v. United States, has been dismissed. • Suing can be an effective tool…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · BSR President and CEO Aron Cramer addresses the new climate for business and the three strategic challenges every business will face in 2020. · What major shifts have taken…
Giving Compass’ Take: · In this talk from EA Global 2019: San Francisco, Leah Edgerton, executive director of Animal Charity Evaluators, provides a few strategies for animal advocacy to reduce short-term obstacles…
Giving Compass’ Take: · Writing for the MAVA Foundation, Justin Woolford shares how the indigenous people and local communities on the Bijagós islands in West Africa are approaching contemporary conservation. · How can other…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Business owners Lynda and Stewart Resnick turned to place-based philanthropy and built Wonderful College Prep charter school in Lost Hills, California, to invest in education opportunities…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • David G. Victor calls for a greater focus on the impacts of climate change on the ocean, often overlooked in adaption efforts. • How can funders bring…
Giving Compass’ Take: • Operation Rock Wallaby airdropped thousands of kilos of carrots and sweet potatoes to help Australia’s wildlife recover from the wildfires and will do so until the…
Giving Compass’ Take: • Devon Klatell of the Rockefeller Foundation talks about the important role philanthropic organizations play in the food systems, not only funding innovative solutions but connecting communities across…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • In small Colorado towns, solar energy is becoming the way forward for communities left behind by the coal industry. In North Fork Valley, solar classes are combining…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Phil McKenna reports on the UN’s draft update to a global biodiversity treaty that aims to solve two global challenges at once by protecting critical wildlife habitat…