This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Jeffrey R. Young, writing for EdSurge, discusses the rush of interest to participate in a gap year from prospective college students due to the COVID-19 pandemic. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Community Foundation of Tampa Bay successfully initiated local philanthropy efforts to create a Nonprofit Needs List that matched local nonprofits with givers to provide resources. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • An expert in sociolinguistics discusses the disconnect between framing workers as “essential”, and the harsh realities of being unprotected and undervalued during COVID-19. • The author points…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The COVID-19 pandemic is creating meatpacking bottlenecks, making it difficult to house and care for additional animals in these plants. • This will cause major dilemmas…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Here, experts weigh in on how COVID-19 will implicate and change philanthropy and charitable giving for the foreseeable future. • In what ways has your giving…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the final weeks of 2019, a new virus took the human population by storm. Without any immunity to this pathogen, the virus has since passed between individuals, communities and through countries leaving a trail of destruction that seems to have no…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Mike Scott reports that coronavirus is reinvigorating interest in SDG No. 17, partnerships for the goals, creating an opportunity for a collaborative future. • How can funders best…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Cheedy Jaja demonstrates the need for increased support for health care workers on the front lines of coronavirus, drawing comparisons from his time as a nurse…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Leonardo Martin and Lauren Sidner offer suggestions for building resilience to the compounding threats of climate and pandemic disasters. • What’s at stake if we fail…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Laura Tomasko explains that impact investments could help fill funding gaps for small businesses and nonprofit organizations that do not have access to loan assistance or…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Chris Worman explains the importance of supporting small service organizations for sustained coronavirus disaster relief. • How important is every philanthropist in the effort to minimize…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Joe McCarthy writes for Global Citizen about Greta Thunberg’s donation to reduce the corrosive effects of the pandemic on the child rights crisis. • How does…