This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Research from The Bridgespan Group has identified interventions designed to effectively prevent obesity and excessive weight gain. • How can funders use this information to direct…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Lebron James I Promise School is utilizing a whole-family intervention approach that provides extra workforce training development, GED programs, job placement services and a food bank…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Students from Wheelock College in Boston, MA are traveling to Belfast, Ireland to study how educators follow peaceful programs that address childhood trauma in the classroom after…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Level Up is the summer camp portion of an organization called Envision that offers coding and STEM boot camps to students who are visually impaired. • How will programs…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Catholic schools, historically known to cater to lower-income families, are on the decline. Here, The Atlantic explains how this decline has made independent education and private schools…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • GlobalGiving reports on the hardships those in rural Texas are still enduring one year after Hurricane Harvey hit the area; local organizations are trying to provide…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • David Ross explains how the Global Schools Network plans to build global education encompassing culture, linguistics, awareness, and competence. • What are the benefits of this approach?…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Writing for Grantmakers In Health, Carolyn Link discusses the obstacles in gaining access to healthcare coverage and explains how the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Urban Institute interviewed and surveyed more than 400 local workforce development boards about their child care support systems and found that many were taking a strategic approach…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • States are getting more creative when addressing school truancy issues in an effort to stop criminalizing young people and offer supportive services as an alternative to the juvenile…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • More grant funding is necessary for direct service organizations engaging with patients who suffer from substance abuse problems, particularly surrounding the opioid crisis. • Kathleen Kelly Janus found…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • NPR interviews South Carolina researchers about the connections between poor math scores from students whose families are on food stamps. • What are the next steps for mitigating…