This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Buoyed by a massive influx of federal education funding, schools and districts are rolling out a greater number of programs and initiatives to drive learning recovery for students than at…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Dear Colleagues, The uprisings of 2020 sparked historic levels of philanthropic giving to address racial injustice. For philanthropy, this signals a tremendous and unprecedented opportunity to dismantle white supremacy in both…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over 5 million American children under the age of 18 years, a disproportionate number of whom are Black or Latino, have had a residential parent jailed or incarcerated. While a…
Giving Compass’ Take: • Douglas Phillips discusses the Procedural Justice-Informed Alternatives to Contempt (PJAC) demonstration project’s approach to reducing child support debt. • How can efforts to reduce child support debt…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Today, with social media, a twenty-four-hour news cycle, and cell phones at many dinner tables, social issues have become part of the daily fabric of life. Information abounds, overwhelms, and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Sit down: This is foundationally important. It’s about relinquishing power and passing over the microphone. Consciously consume: Reading more women writers. Seeing more women-directed plays. Doing research into which local…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Regarding financial security, 22 percent of respondents reported they were “just getting by,” and 12 percent found it “difficult” or “very difficult” to manage financially. Whites were more than twice…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This is how California’s water crisis is going these days: The only functioning well in the rural community of Teviston broke in early June, leaving more than 700 residents without…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Hollis Irvin learned to read last year. She’s a good reader, her mother, Tiffany Burks, says. Last year, when the pandemic forced schools to close temporarily and during the early…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Generation Equality Forum (GEF) has been 25 years in the making, and a postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic is not stopping the opportunity to push gender equality efforts forward. The…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After the murder of George Floyd and countless others and a contentious presidential election, much of the recent public outrage over longstanding racial injustices in the United States has rightfully focused on law enforcement and voting…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Transitional justice is about the most difficult dilemmas facing a society during some of the most troubling and challenging moments of its history. It is applied when a country needs…