This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Employees at VillageReach share how the organization navigates working with the public sector and local government to transition its role as “implementer” of social programs and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Grant Trahant, writing for Causeartist, discusses the initiatives of the Tent Foundation as it plans to address the global refugee crisis. • In what ways can businesses…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Teach For All is a global organization that focuses on addressing the root causes of unequal outcomes for children. The authors share experiences working on DEI…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Negotiating race in cross-sector collective impact spaces requires careful navigation. Tabitha Bentley, writing for Stanford Social Innovation Review, discusses how these negotiations impact the outcomes of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Education Dive reports on a study that found that the odds of college enrollment for Black students who had a Black teacher increased by 13% when…
Giving Compass’ Take: • Research from the Vera Institute of Justice reveals that education access in prisons has benefits for prisoner outcomes and is cost-effective. • How can funders help…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Alexi Jones explains how prisons without air conditioning create a recipe for death and illness as prisoners are more vulnerable to heat than the general population. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Anecdotally, America seems to be experiencing a great surge in civic engagement. The Women’s March on Washington brought millions of people together on every continent in January 2017, and tens…
Giving Compass’ Take: • Denis Mukwege advocates for changing international policy and putting conventions in place to make rape as a weapon of war a crime against humanity. • What changes…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • University of Melbourne’s Janhavi Karkera lists several books that promise to provide inspiration to social entrepreneurs, from tackling poverty to educating the world’s children. • How many…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Writing for The Brookings Institution, Andre M. Perry highlights the disparities between black and white unemployment and explains that black unemployment has reached an even higher level than see…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · The authors discuss the changing patterns of immigration enforcement in the US under the Trump administration and how recent shifts have led to more arrests and…