This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Measuring and Improving Student-Centered Learning (MISCL) Toolkit, developed with support from the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, helps educators assess the effectiveness of student-centered learning online. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Deanna Van Buren and F. Javier Torres-Campos provide a bigger roadmap to coming up with solutions for mass decarceration during the COVID-19 pandemic. • Are you ready…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Here are some key takeaways from Southern California Grantmaker’s Policy Summit which covered how philanthropy needs to protect and strengthen democratic resilience during COVID-19. • Donors…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened economic and food security for young women in sub-Sahara Africa, prompting them to prioritize marriage and children over education. • How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Alexi Jones and Wendy Sawyer share data that reveals that U.S. police kill dramatically more civilians than police in similarly wealthy countries. • These instances of police…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Brentin Mock reveals how cities allocate millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money towards the legal cost of police violence as opposed to improving marginalized communities. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Kate Kelland explains that donors from 10 countries have pledged $1 billion to a fund backed by the World Bank aimed at improving the nutrition and overall health…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • At The Marshall Project, Weihua Li demonstrates how racial disparities in arrests have persisted and even increased despite lower crime rates during coronavirus. • What will…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Emily Pontecorvo explains that hurricanes disproportionately harm communities of color, but a lack of media coverage on the subject means that the public isn’t informed. • What…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Tiffany Smith explains how policymakers and nonprofits are working to improve maternal health outcomes for Black women, who disproportionately die from pregnancy- or childbirth-related causes. • How can funders…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • At Education Dive, Linda Jacobson summarizes recent, state-wide emergency education relief funds and the debate over how and where they should be spent. • Why is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Keri Blakinger and Abbie Vansickle, at The Marshall Project, explain how inhumane mass arrests at Black Lives Matter protests have drastically increased COVID-19 risks. • Many considered…