This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Climate change and resource extraction disproportionally affect marginalized communities. This article explains why gender equality and women’s rights are key to achieving environmental justice. 2017 is on course to be the deadliest…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Joe McCarthy discusses The Weeknd’s continuous efforts to address issues such as racial equality, global healthcare, and much more. · How does this action encourage other…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Craig Kielburger is the founder of Free the Children, a movement to stop the process of child labor around the world. Kielburger’s story starts when he…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Much has been written about our country’s problem with mass incarceration and its devastating impacts on individual lives, families and communities. Despite extensive research showing that incarceration is especially harmful…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • A recent study has shown that in spite of national standards, most states lack important prison policies on prenatal care and nutrition for pregnant women. • How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Cassie Walker Burke at Chalkbeat discusses the recent closures of early childhood centers in Chicago and other parts of Illinois, and how the state may need to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Daniele Selby and Olivia Kestin discuss the photography of David Goldblatt, who recorded the day-to-day life of South Africans under apartheid. • How do projects like this inform contemporaries and historians?…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Grover J. Whitehurst, Richard V. Reeves, Nathan Joo, and Edward Rodrigue unpack the lack of progress that has been in integrating American schools since the Brown v. Board of Education…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In an increasingly divisive society—where politics seem to dominate public as well as private discourse—what would it be like to hold civil conversations in our own families and communities? And…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • At the Hiidenkivi Comprehensive School near Helsinki, Finland, educators play a role in phenomenon-based learning that is interdisciplinary and driven by students’ inquires about the world. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Climate scientists have researched the history of climate in Buffalo, finding that the city can better withstand the impacts of climate change (compared to other places),…
Giving Compass’ Take: • In this podcast, Monica Dodi, co-founder of Women’s Venture Capital Fund, explores how to move women forward in the venture capital world. • How are you…