This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Positive Pathways: A Landscape Analysis of Programs Serving Native American Boys and Young Men highlights the need for greater support from philanthropy. • How can funders work…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Annie E. Casey Foundation is committed to investing in opportunities that will strengthen entrepreneurs of color and build community and family wealth. • There is…
Giving Compass’ Take: • In this report, the authors outline three categories of solutions that can bridge the racial wealth divide: Programs, power, and progress. The clear action items are…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Mark Keierleber reports that school district secessions are accelerating around the United States, creating increasingly segregated districts. • How can funders help to increase equity between…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Food Tank discusses how education in mindful eating can help rebuild the health in communities of color. • In what other ways can we help communities…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Victoria Tran of the Urban Institute relays a detailed explanation of the factors that contribute to higher poverty levels among the Asian American elderly population specifically. • How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Writing for EdSurge, Randy Weiner explains that the need to find a humanizing focus in education supersedes the need to personalize education. · How can education find a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Patti Verbanas explains that researchers found that depressed African Americans were more likely to be misdiagnosed than other groups. Genetics, poverty, and discrimination also played a role. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Kerry A. Dolan reports on conversations held at the Skoll World Forum about philanthropy’s current moment of reckoning centered around diversity, inclusion, and doing better going forward. …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Richard Louv at Children & Nature Network interviews Karen Pittman, president, and CEO of the Forum for Youth Investment, a nonprofit that focuses on leadership and youth development. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • In this story from AEI, author Frederick M. Hess argues that elite colleges should switch their admissions processes to a lottery, just like K-12 charter schools.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • In this story from Urban Institute, the authors discuss the difference between income inequality and inclusion, arguing that inclusion is a better metric for equity at…