This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is on a mission to enroll more women as cancer researchers and work hard to fund women in science to get…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Many New Yorkers who are summoned to court for minor infractions do not show up. In response to this, the city decided to portray the time and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Shipra Deo, writing for News Deeply, interviewed rural Indian women to hear their stories of courage in overcoming gender norms and cultural practices that hurt them. • How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Women healthcare volunteers in countries such as Afghanistan, Nepal, and Ethiopia are undervalued even though they provide useful and fundamental health care for people in their communities. …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • In an effort to address sanitation challenges, the city of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania is beginning to draw on the skills of women in engineering, overcoming…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • This Forbes post examines the difficulties many women-led venture capital funds have raising money and urges impact investors to pay more attention to them. • Want…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Female genital schistosomiasis, also known as snail fever, is a neglected tropical disease that has infected almost 56 million women across sub-Saharan Africa, as Global Citizen reports. •…
Giving Compass’ Take: • In this podcast from the RAND Corporation, political scientist Jennifer Kavanagh and William P. Getty, president of the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation, discuss the consequences of truth decay…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Kristen Parker reports that research suggests that political polarization has been getting worse since the 1970’s, and will continue to do so. • How can funders work…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Nazeem Muhajarine and Daphne McRae explain how their research revealed that marginalized, poor women benefitted the most from the care of midwives. • How can philanthropists help to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Stanford historian Londa Schiebinger discusses how more gender diversity in STEM will produce better results in STEM research. • How can philanthropists fund diversity initiatives for research institutes?…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Lucius Couloute breaks down the homelessness statistics of formerly incarcerated people demographically and offers recommendations for reducing homelessness and recidivism in that population. • How can funders…