This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • City Observatory researcher Joe Cortright found that no mass urban exodus is happening (yet) in the largest U.S. metropolitan markets during the COVID-19 pandemic. • There is potential…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Analytics (how data can turn into insights) can help provide organizations with real-time data about the impacts of COVID-19 on communities and can inform responses. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Emily Tate, writing for EdSurge, discusses the hurdles for school crisis counselors to provide grief counseling for students virtually. • How can education donors help crisis counselors…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Jennifer Molidor argues that supermarkets need to be more accountable for their role in the amount of food waste there is in the United States and take…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Ana Revenga and Meagan Dooley lay out changes that could address the rising inequality in the United States. • How can funders best take action to make…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Market-creating innovation is a strategy that can address poverty through a transformation of products that were previously expensive to affordable and simple for consumers to understand.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Zia Khan and John McArthur, at The Rockefeller Foundation, lay out a plan to blaze a path through crisis focused on the Sustainable Development Goals. • Why…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Amira Diamond and Melinda Kramer share three community development strategies they have learned after years of working in the international development space. • What do community…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Food Tank reports on Denmark’s plan to climate label their food products in an effort to give consumers knowledge on their carbon footprint and shine a light…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • David Zipper demonstrates how COVID-19 has revealed major flaws in pedestrian infrastructure throughout the United States, many of which could be corrected with safe sidewalks. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • At Urban Institute, Rayanne Hawkins, Heather Hahn, and Alena Stern pinpoint how marginalized communities would benefit from making SNAP benefits accessible online during COVID-19. • How has…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • In an excerpt from Dan Heath’s book Upstream, the author explains the “push for zero,” a strategy for change-makers to eliminate issues entirely, starting at the micro level.…