This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • By focusing on housing, the country’s largest managed care organization has reduced costs and improved member outcomes. • The program is still a work in progress.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Using information and research on how plants sense and detect warmth, scientists are trying to breed crops that can adapt to the rising temperatures caused by climate…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2009, my organisation, Keystone Accountability, had been invited, alongside commercial marketing experts, to advise on a project to reduce malnutrition. Dubbed “hidden hunger” by development professionals, malnutrition is a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • For those struggling to afford bare necessities, money is a significant barrier to well-being and happiness. • What is the cutoff point where money no longer makes…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Gifted and talented programs in New York City schools did not achieve intended diversity outcomes, furthering the debate over the representation of students in these programs.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Stabilizing those experiencing homelessness, trauma, mental illness and substance use is no small task, but the answer may start with the most basic of human needs: Connection. Current data reminds…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • In a brain-aligned model of discipline, we must teach the behaviors we want to see in schools and lay the groundwork for prevention systems and strategies. Lori Desautels…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Lamenting an education system that it is too often stilted and stale, TEDEd discusses three ways to foster more creativity in children at an early age. …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Although many people donate during a disaster, those donations can only go so far. Here, the author explains why recovery efforts need more philanthropic support in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · With the demands of the workforce changing, Rachelle Dene Poth discusses the best way educators can prepare to teach students the skills they need for their future.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The crowdfunding community at GlobalGiving helped two women raise funds for their cooperative and opened doors for them as future entrepreneurs. • In what other ways…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Writing for Pacific Standard, Tom Jacobs explains how overconfidence in the upper- and middle-class people is often perceived as competence and capability by employers, limiting the potential…