This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Part two in a three-part series. Read part one and part three. Philanthropy is continuing to miss the mark on addressing root causes of the exacerbated outcomes we’re witnessing from COVID-19…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Market-creating innovation is a strategy that can address poverty through a transformation of products that were previously expensive to affordable and simple for consumers to understand.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Johane Alexis-Phanor shares five ways in which mainstream philanthropy ignores the problems of communities of color and fails to prioritize their needs. • How can mainstream philanthropy address…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Amira Diamond and Melinda Kramer share three community development strategies they have learned after years of working in the international development space. • What do community…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Mercy Chikowore, at The Women’s Foundation, calls for immediate action to finally tear down centuries-old walls of systemic oppression towards Black women and girls. • What can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Lindsay F. Wiley and Samuel R. Bagenstos expose discriminatory impacts of public health policy failures, which place disproportionate burdens on marginalized communities. • How have rigid public…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • At Smart Cities Dive, Cailin Crowe explains how Chicago’s appointment of Angela Tovar as chief sustainability officer addresses the relationship between racial inequities and climate change.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • William “Sandy” Darity and Kirsten Mullen, at Brookings, call for drastic, long-awaited changes to public policy to reverse decades of the American racial wealth gap. • How…
Giving Compass’ Take: • In a video for The Aspen Institute, experts dissect the devastation of systemic racism in America and offer revisions to the country’s current doctrines. • In…
Giving Compass’ Take: • In this video, Dr. Wendy Ellis, director of the Center for Community Resilience at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University, describes the importance…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • After the murder of Geroge Floyd, many racial justice groups have seen an influx of donations, and some have stopped asking for contributions altogether. • Organizations…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Juneteenth marks the celebration of freeing the last enslaved people in the United States. Still, the legacy of slavery and racism continues in America through poverty,…