This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Women4Women is an initiative that brings together female carpenters building tiny homes for women who are experiencing homelessness. • Volunteers from Women4Women are additionally running mentorship programs to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Governing Magazine explains how the CERT (Community Emergency Response Teams) program is training thousands of individuals around the county to be volunteer responders for natural disasters. …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Here’s what we’re reading: The state of America’s student-teacher racial gap: Our public school system has been majority-minority for years, but 80 percent of teachers are still white “Although America…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Writing for the Christensen Institute, Efosa Ojomo explains how the USAID DIV program is investing in innovators to eliminate global poverty and promote longterm, sustainable prosperity. · How are…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · According to Education Dive, schools are beginning to establish new school sports programs to engage more students in fitness and physical activity. Traditional sports like football…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Using data from the most recent Census, Governing Magazine provides a few regions where individuals with no college degree have a better chance at finding employment. · Why do…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Writing for Education Week, Matthew Gaydos and Kurt Dean Squire explain how the popular video game Fortnite can be used as an engaging learning tool to teach…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Schools often don’t prepare students for what’s to come after graduation. Here, Chalkbeat talks with Sharon Collins, educator at New Heights Academy Charter School in Harlem, about…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Nita Bhalla shares how polygamy can push women and children into poverty as men take on new wives and families, neglecting . their existing wives and children. …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Tim Silard argues that low youth participation in democracy means that it is time for funders to step up and invest in youth. • How can funders…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · News Deeply talks with Kathleen Pellechia, nutrition knowledge management specialist at Alive & Thrive, about the challenges in promoting exclusive breastfeeding and some strategies that are working…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · With roughly half of all college students stating they feel unprepared for their future and needing to take remedial courses, Education Dive suggests schools provide more…