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    Private Equity and For-Profit Colleges

    Education Dive May 19, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • In this Education Dive story, Ben Unglesbee investigates the tumultuous for-profit college sector, and the dramatic effects that private equity have had on it. • Adults…

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    The Search for Purpose-Driven Workers

    B the Change May 19, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • This story from B the Change focuses on how and why businesses should recruit workers based on their values, passions, and commitment to the organization’s cause.…

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    Food Policies: What Works, What Doesn’t

    FoodTank May 18, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • In this FoodTank story, Teresa O’Connor talks with Mondi Mason and other food policy experts about the obstacles to and importance of improving healthy food access.…

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    UN Calls For Action to Tackle Antimicrobial Resistance

    Sci Dev Net May 18, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • In this story from Sci Dev Net, Ruth Douglas discusses the consequences of antimicrobial resistance that we could see in the next couple of decades. •…

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    3 Ways Schools Are Helping Underrepresented Students Graduate from College

    The Hechinger Report May 18, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Richard Whitmire explains techniques that schools across the country are using to help underrepresented students graduate from college.  • How can funders work to boost and improve…

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    Can Medicaid Work Requirements Be Done Well?

    The Conversation May 18, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Simon F. Haeder explains that barriers to effective Medicaid work requirements including costs and burdens on recipients. • Are work requirements worth the cost and effort they…

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    Nudging Change in Human Services

    MDRC May 18, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • MDRC shares learnings from the Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency program that worked to create effective nudges in human services.   • How can funders work to…

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    What The Young And Old Can Achieve Together

    Generations United | The Eisner Foundation May 18, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Generations United and The Eisner Foundation share how the lives of all can be improved by getting young and old people to work together.  • How…

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    Creative Placemaking: Innovating Engagement & Instigating Systems Change

    ARTS Blog May 17, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Artists and planners teamed up to embark on a local placemaking initiative in Washington D.C. which lead to high-quality community engagement and systems change work.  •…

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    This Organization Works to Restore Oceans all over the Globe while Creating Jobs and a Market for Seaweed

    Food Tank May 17, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Food Tank highlights GreenWave, a company that is supporting a new generation of ocean farmers feeding the planet and building a blue-green economy in the era…

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    Trump Poised to Roll Back Transgender Health Protections

    The Hill May 17, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • The Hill reports that the Trump administration is taking measures to roll back health care protections for transgender people, and advocates are gearing up for a…

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    Take a Look at the Vision for the World’s First 3D-Printed Neighborhood

    Fast Company May 17, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • A new housing nonprofit called New Story that is completing plans to 3D print houses in the developing world. Fast Company shows what they could look…

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