This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. More and more grantmakers are seeking to integrate “diversity, equity and inclusion” into their programs and operations. This is a positive step, but I’ve sensed a disconnect between these efforts…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Writing for Northern California Grantmakers, Elena Chávez Quezada of the Chavez Family Foundation lists ways in which funders can address the needs of their grantees in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Laneta Dorflinger explains that new contraceptive technologies are needed to fill existing gaps in options for pregnancy prevention. • What needs remain? Who is already working to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Jarret Bencks-Brandeis at Futurity reports on a new study regarding racial profiling and stop-and-frisks. Out of the 60 black Caribbean students involved in this research in London and NYC,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Greg Dolan at Education Next discusses the history of Catholic schools and the role they play now with the school choice movement. · What type of students…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • From middle class expansion to positive trends in girls’ education, Brookings takes a look at what its scholars have learned over the past year and how…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Governing magazine discusses the uncertainties around the 2020 Census — including fears of undercounting immigrants, minorities and low-income people — and how states are preparing. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Will Stancil explains how T. M. Landry College Preparatory School was able to scam top college admissions processes by faking records of low-income black students. • How can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Writing for Hispanics in Philanthropy, Michelle Threadgould explains that funders should take a deeper look at who is really in need of their dollars before funding an…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Urban Institute shares the research of Gregory Acs, Rolf Pendall, Mark Treskon and Amy Khare on the cost of racial residential segregation in America. · How do economic…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · According to Nancy M. Pindus and G. Thomas Kingsley at Urban Institute, the main problem with housing in Indian Country is not affordability, but rather access to physical housing…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Rachel Gutman reports that even as diversity data has confirmed problems in the tech sector, change has yet to be made within organizations. • How can funders…