This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Joseph Neff and Beth Schwartzapfel, at The Marshall Project, summarize a recent criminal justice act in North Carolina that reverses death sentences based in racial bias. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The National Partnership for Women & Families details why we need new, comprehensive paid leave policy to help bridge massive gaps in racial equity. • Where…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Destiny Thomas expresses how quickly sprung, pandemic-induced street designs harm Black members of their communities who had no voice in their development. • How can we…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Stephen Menendian at Othering & Belonging Institute argues that without a broader, more transformative policy agenda regarding racism and police reform, similar protests and uprisings that are happening…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Carlos Avenancio and Troup Howard expose how the United States’ property tax system creates disproportionately high rates for minority homeowners. • What can we do to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Alyasah Ali Sewell and Rashawn Ray, at Brookings, expose the devastating health effects on Black communities that stem directly and collaterally from police violence. • What will…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Dan Gearino, writing for InsideClimate News, discusses the racial inequities present in the clean energy industry and compiles examples of action steps to address these inequalities. …
Giving Compass’ Take: • Jenna Nicholas, CEO of Impact Experience, discusses why impact investors need to recognize and dismantle bias in asset allocation to reframe power and garner insights from communities. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Research indicates that COVID-19 disproportionately impacts black, Latino, indigenous, and immigrant communities due to the legacy of structural racism that affects societal factors of health. • A…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Equitable Growth Policy Director Amanda Fischer talks with Mehrsa Baradaran, professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, about the persistence of the racial wealth…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Here are some key takeaways from Southern California Grantmaker’s Policy Summit which covered how philanthropy needs to protect and strengthen democratic resilience during COVID-19. • Donors…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Brentin Mock reveals how cities allocate millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money towards the legal cost of police violence as opposed to improving marginalized communities. •…