This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Dana Cowin visits Food Tank President Danielle Nierenberg at the Slow Food Nations Leader Summit in Denver, Colorado to talk about the challenges and urgency of telling stories…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Ana Victoria Cruz, writing for Southern California Grantmakers, discusses lessons learned by housing advocates who are working on the issue of homelessness. • How can donors get…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Nontraditional learners can teach us three things about the necessity of education-to-career pathways. • How are you supporting innovation in education that contributes to the growth and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Experts say that self-employed people who work in some of the most popular—but lowest paid—occupations have the greatest risk of losing their job to artificial intelligence.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Russell Lowery-Hart, president of Amarillo College in Texas, discusses the challenges many students face including poverty and homelessness and how colleges can provide for these students. ·…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Lincoln Wilcox examines why solar energy independent units are taking off in African countries that lack the resources for vast electrical grids. • How can solar…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Liz Enochs explores the growing sector of cooperatively-owned businesses as they scale up using accelerators and incubators to foster impactful innovation. • How can donors support entrepreneurs…
Giving Compass’ Take: • Jessica Trisko Darden analyzes how U.S. counterterrorism can be augmented by effective development assistance that works to stop the spread of violent extremism. • Darden takes…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Xavier de Souza Briggs shares five key lessons from the Ford Foundation’s work on the racial wealth gap. • How can funders apply these lessons to economic…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • A team of researchers is using a “decision-tree” algorithm to analyze climate data and atmospheric conditions that will help predict the severity of wildfires. • How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Futurity highlights a new tool called “Panacea’s Cloud” that could give first responders a way to communicate during a natural or human-made disaster when devices such…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • New research shows that climate change can greatly affect our seafood, from the supply to the actual flavor as the ocean chemistry shifts. • What can we do…