This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Kimberly Burrowes argues that new investments can revitalize historically excluded neighborhoods, but planners must prioritize racial equity. • How can funders share best practices and collaborate on…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Brandon Wiggins highlights a nonprofit in Afghanistan called Skateistan, that teaches girls in impoverished neighborhoods to skateboard. • How can countries go beyond changing laws to change…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Tanaya Jagtiani describes how the recent spread of informal employment into the formal sector deepened the country’s social and economic inequalities. • Why has India’s informal…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Ishita Mehrotra argues that while the feminization of agriculture does bring women into the public sphere in India, it also restricts them to low-paid, labor-intensive jobs. • What…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Laura Ward discusses two programs in Nashville that are giving adults who want to grow in their education the positive reinforcement they need to get started on…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Janice Bloom and Lori Chajet argue that peer to peer counseling can help to close the counseling gap in the United States. • How can funders work to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Weihua Li explains why gender and gender-identity hate crime stats supplied by the FBI are so much lower than self-reported numbers. • What does this discrepancy in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Children and Nature Network highlights the importance of expanding access to environmental education programs to underserved youth and offers insight as to how to increase inclusion efforts across…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Liz Willen writes on the Varsity Blues scandal and how that ignited a lot of talks to change how college admissions work, however, not much real…
Giving Compass’ Take: • In this podcast from the Aspen Institute, the realities of the universal basic income are discussed. • Is universal basic income, or any cash transfer program, a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Jake Lilien explains that civil rights testing has found that in spite of laws to prevent discrimination in lending, housing discrimination persists. • Beyond laws, what…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass Take: • Jean Twenge explores surveys that show the drop in teen readers over a four-decade span and how that’s correlated to lower test scores, along with college…