This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Kelly Anne Hammond recounts the history of the persecution of Muslims in China and explains what that means today. • How can funders work to protect persecuted…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The ACLU of D.C. unpacks D.C. policing data, revealing extreme racial disparities in interactions, tickets, and arrests which disproportionately impact Black people. • How can funders…
Giving Compass’ Take: • The Annie E. Casey Foundation explains why children are likely to be undercounted in the 2020 census and what an undercount will mean for the public and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. [Photo: The author and her sister reunited with their mother at John F. Kennedy International Airport in December 1983] I never considered myself a “refugee.” Growing up on Long Island, when…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that he will accept almost all of NYC’s School Diversity Advisory Group’s recommendations, but with a few caveats. • Some say that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. NCRP: How would you describe philanthropy’s inclusion of and support for the Black immigrant and refugee community? Daranee Petsod: Very limited. The experiences of Black immigrant and refugee communities are…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Cooperative Nursery School in West Mount Airy is teaching young children how to talk about race at an early age. • The author mentions that this…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Christine P. Bartholomew, writing for The Conversation, reports that Pope Francis recently changed the Catholic law so that clergy has to report sexual abuse to church leaders.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Despite regular news coverage from the U.S.-Mexico border, one population has received less attention: Transborder commuters. These individuals live on one side of the border, but regularly cross over for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One early morning last April, Pride Foundation’s regional staff person in Montana, Kim Leighton, received a worried email from a local Helena teacher and Gender-Sexuality Alliance (GSA) advisor. The teacher…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Steven Martin and Charmaine Runes discuss how the Census citizenship question could affect congressional representation through both apportionment and gerrymandering. • How can funders work to ensure…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • In order to finance the SDGS, the development sector will have to turn to innovative financing models like social enterprises, global partnerships with corporations and other…