This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Freeleaf is a handmade accessory brand that offers employment to women at risk of sexual exploitation. • What are other support systems in place for women…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Food Tank has compiled a list of 14 African-American female entrepreneurs who have incorporated sustainable food production practices into their businesses and who are working to create…
Giving Compass’ Take: • Demetrios G. Papademetriou and Kate Hooper explain the strengths and weakness of points-based and demand-driven systems for selecting economic immigrants. • Which solution is more appropriate for the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • In this excerpt from The B.A. Breakthrough: How Ending Diploma Disparities Can Change the Face of America, Richard Whitmire shares the story of Truong Nguyen and how the EMERGE college…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Doris Meissner and Sarah Pierce lay out intermediate- and long-term policy solutions to effectively address the crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border. • Why is it so difficult to get…
Giving Compass’ Take: • In this report, the authors outline three categories of solutions that can bridge the racial wealth divide: Programs, power, and progress. The clear action items are…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Punitive discipline in schools can make students feel outcasted, and implementing suspensions for students is usually not about a student’s harmful behavior. • How can restorative…
Giving Compass’ Take: • The Migration Policy Institute lays out key ways the EU could improve its funding strategies to better address ongoing migration and integration challenges. • How can…
Giving Compass’ Take: • Migration Policy Insitute lays out policy recommendations to better support child immigrants and the children of immigrants in the United States. • How can funders help…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Experts at the Migration Policy Institute discuss the possibility of U.S.- Mexico cooperation on immigration policy and the barriers to success. • How can funders help…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • A new study from the University of Washington reveals that the deep political divides which perpetuate partisan attitudes about immigration have seriously impacted immigrants’ health. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the darkest days of apartheid South Africa in the mid 1970s, an activist parish priest named Desmond Tutu came to the Ford Foundation and made an extraordinary argument. He…