This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Fast Company highlights 10 inspiring business stories from 2018, ranging from innovative technology, aiding our environment, strengthening our workforce and other socially-responsible initiatives. • In what…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Will Stancil explains how T. M. Landry College Preparatory School was able to scam top college admissions processes by faking records of low-income black students. • How can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Writing for Hispanics in Philanthropy, Michelle Threadgould explains that funders should take a deeper look at who is really in need of their dollars before funding an…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Urban Institute shares the research of Gregory Acs, Rolf Pendall, Mark Treskon and Amy Khare on the cost of racial residential segregation in America. · How do economic…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · According to Nancy M. Pindus and G. Thomas Kingsley at Urban Institute, the main problem with housing in Indian Country is not affordability, but rather access to physical housing…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • While evidence-based policy is meant to improve lives, Straight Talk On Evidence points out that most social programs and practices don’t produce the hoped-for results when…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Education Dive explores new research that emphasizes the importance of “soft skills” to survive in today’s college and career environment — and ways that we can help…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • As Governing magazine explores, Arizona’s education savings accounts — a variation on vouchers — have been used overwhelmingly by families whose children were already attending high-quality…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Mashable takes a look at how innovators, activists, and organizations worked together in 2018 to create many innovations to help people around the world with various challenges. …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Ithaca Children’s Garden in upstate New York is innovative in its efforts to engage children with our natural world. The park’s goal is to cultivate the importance…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Social worker Tina Payne Bryson and psychiatrist Daniel Siegel partner together to explain how parents can encourage the development of empathy in their children. · How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Writing for The Atlantic, Tara García Mathewson explains how a Boston nonprofit known as EMPath (Economic Mobility Pathways) is using brain science to develop new pathways out of poverty. …