This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Cross-cultural mixing that occurs when people emigrate has significant economic potential. Policy can help facilitate that process to increase returns for all parties involved. • How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Starbucks claims to have finally closed the gender pay gap between employees by working with women’s organizations and developing a toolkit. • Now that one corporate…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • An article in India Development Review (IDR) argues that India’s social sector is an exclusionary, walled-off community of academics and doesn’t adequately seek out viewpoints of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Marshall Project interviews criminal justice advocate Jennifer Thompson and political scientist Frank Baumgartner, a husband and wife team studying the effects of wrongful convictions. Together,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • ImpactAlpha interviews Shalaka Joshi from International Finance Corp. about the importance of incorporating gender equity into enterprises large and small (she has helped 50 banks in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • There are social and financial motivations driving gender-lens investing. Creating clear goals, strategies, and metrics are key to succeeding in lifting women up. • What are…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Truth decay has enormous implications for policy, governance, and society, as we know them. Only through research to understand and coordinated efforts to combat truth decay can we…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Crowdsourcing development workers and utilizing bitcoin micropayments for projects could be potentially beneficial for the development sector. • How can bitcoin influence community mobilization within development work? • Bitcoin…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Grantmakers In the Arts discusses a new study from the Memphis Music Initiative (MMI) which analyzes exclusionary arts funding practices. • Are funders doing enough to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Mass incarceration continues to damage American communities. Since fully understanding an issue is the key first step to policy solutions, the information outlined in this document…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Having more female surge staff in a disaster-struck area increases services and protections for women during a crisis. • How can organizations recruit and deploy more…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Desperation and chaos in refugee camps create ideal conditions for human trafficking. It is now easy for foreigners to find pimps who kidnap and abuse children. …