This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Amir Khafagy discusses the gentrification and exotification of Baltimore’s Chinatown to the exclusion of the Ethiopian community currently living there. • How can cities tackle gentrification and ensure…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Dan Cardinali writes that the United States can restore the trust that allows civil society to flourish by emphasizing the values that have long bound us…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Daniele Selby and Olivia Kestin discuss the photography of David Goldblatt, who recorded the day-to-day life of South Africans under apartheid. • How do projects like this inform contemporaries and historians?…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Grover J. Whitehurst, Richard V. Reeves, Nathan Joo, and Edward Rodrigue unpack the lack of progress that has been in integrating American schools since the Brown v. Board of Education…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, The Network for the Development of Children of African Descent (NdCAD) is drawing on the African heritage of local families to help boost…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Criminal justice researchers have found that there is still a racial disparity in prison sentences and time served behind bars between black and white individuals. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Khalil Abdullah explains Gilberto Amaya’s efforts to expand the census to include more racial minorities. • How can funders help to expand understanding of and data around…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Melissa Walls, a member of the Ojibwe tribe, shares her understanding of the health gaps and inequities that Native American communities have faced for many years. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Sarah Holder recounts how the Native American Wiyot tribe was driven from the Duluwat Island in 1860 and after decades of lobbying finally got it returned. • How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Freeman Hrabowski, former civil rights activist, and now President of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, speaks on how he supports student achievement in higher education, STEM,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The National Center for Family Philanthropy provides an overview of the difference between diversity, equity, and inclusion while also making the moral, social, economic, and market arguments for…
Giving Compass’ Take: • Center for Native American Youth at The Aspen Institute highlights key issues for Native youth in 2019 including the census count and protecting Native land. • How…