This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Global Citizen profiles pop icon Janet Jackson, who has championed a range of causes over her 45-year career, including LGBTQ rights and the fight against domestic…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • An LGBTQ mural was defaced at WITS University in Johannesburg, prompting the university to respond to the reality of homophobia within the broader context of LGBTQ discrimination…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Governing magazine examines two new books on how U.S. cities have taken the lead when it comes to social innovation, though the article warns that things…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Migration Policy Institute reports on the refugee crisis South Sudan, where displaced people are fleeing the region due to famine and escalating conflict. • How can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Leaders of France, Canada and Britain have warned other nations of the major issues arising from the lack of gender equity in education. • As Global…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Brian Gallagher argues that the United States needs the return of nonpartisan civil society to stabilize the divided nation. • How can funders help to build trust…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • One Day at a Time depicts a Latinx woman coping with mental illness, inviting dialogue about mental health in the Latinx community through representation. • What…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Global leaders Justin Trudeau, Emmanuel Macron, and Theresa May led the #LeaveNoGirlBehind meeting at the UN General Assembly which emphasized the need for girls’ education around…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Center for Rural Affairs released a report last year that detailed the problems of access to healthy, culturally-appropriate food for the Santee Sioux people and strategies to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Two Reuters journalists were arrested and sent to prison in Myanmar for seven years after reporting information about the mass killing of Rohingya Muslims. • The United Nations…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Berta Cáceres, a human rights defender, indigenous leader, and environmental activist, knew the danger of her struggle against hydroelectric dams on the Gualcarque River in Honduras. She faced near-constant harassment…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The president of VillageReach provides six lessons her organization learned in delivering health care in the DRC during the wave of Ebola. • The author lists “drive systems…