This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Microcredit is useful in helping individuals become entrepreneurs and driving progress in achieving SDG 1: Eradicating poverty. • What are the challenges with microcredits and small…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Through Steward, a new online crowdfunding platform, individual investors can put as little as $100 into small, sustainable farms that otherwise have trouble gaining access to government…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Corey Scholes addresses the findings from a John Hopkins University study which found that if Black students have even just one Black teacher by third grade, the…
Giving Compass’ Take: • Zaina Rodney explains how the Procedural Justice-Informed Alternatives to Contempt demonstration project increases the perception of fairness to improve child support compliance. • How can funders work…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Somik V. Lall and Ayah Mahgoub identify five strategies for Middle East and North African countries to increase economic integration and convergence. • How can philanthropy play…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Grantmakers in Health examines philanthropic efforts to address to domestic violence and finds there is much room for improvement. • There are steps given for funders…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Career-connected learning encourages employers and educators to work together to combine classroom instruction and relevant work experience that will lead students on a positive path forward. …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Crispus Attucks, founder of YouthBuild, a Pennsylvania program that helps connect opportunity youth to more options, discusses the strategies that will enhance programming for young people.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Researchers say that we need to focus on the big, structural issues that result in food waste, rather than exclusively blaming individual actions if we want…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • H. Claire Brown at The New Food Economy reports on a new feed additive, named Bovaer, that promises to achieve consistent methane reduction by 30 percent. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The author highlights organizations such as Project Lead the Way which helps students from Kindergarten through high school learn STEM subjects in their core curriculum. • How will…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • RAND’s American Working Conditions Survey revealed a trend called “unretirement,” meaning that the elderly respondents said that they would return to the workforce for the right opportunity. …