This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Duncan Green at Oxfam Blogs analyzes a new paper from ODI which explains the importance of road safety and the need for action. According to ODI, traffic…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Chalkbeat explains how Chicago’s Berwyn North School District is changing in order to boost early math skills and increase students’ achievements. • Should parents emphasize STEM skills…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Motherboard explains how Unlocked Futures, a 16-month accelerator created by New Profit, helps fund startups for formerly incarcerated individuals to help others stay out of prison and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Crawfordsville, Indiana is working to improve child care options as an attraction for skilled labor that employers need to drive economic development. • How can philanthropy boost…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Shruti Godbole explains how countries are devising comprehensive measures of success to define their goals and direct their government programs. • How can philanthropy help to define and measure national…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Antonia Batz is helping indigenous women in Guatemala have safe and healthy childbirths. Since indigenous women in Guatemala face discrimination, poverty, and other barriers toward healthy family planning…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The author points out how first responders who experience the mass tragedies often go through bouts of depression, anxiety, job burnout, and even suicide. • Are there organizations…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Games for Change Festival hosts social innovators who have created games that promote social impact and engagement with social justice issues. • Why are games a good platform to partner…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Forbes offers advice as to how to purposefully and strategically manage a crisis through just three steps: preparation, reaction, and bridging the gaps. • If an individual…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Physician and researcher, Janet Smylie, has been studying racism toward the Indigenous people within Canada’s healthcare system for fifteen years and offers insight as to why this…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Generocity reports on the Center for High Impact Philanthropy’s Social Innovation Prize pitch competition, in which students from the University of Pennsylvania presented projects that would put…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The New Food Economy explores the economics of chocolate, and how the demand for more cocoa in consumer products could help smallholder farmers in Africa and…