This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • A student died at Urban Assembly Wildlife, a high school in New York City, after a push for restorative justice resulted in a breakdown of order. • How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Volunteering can help you build a career in various ways. Volunteering gives you experience, it helps with networking and connection building, and it will give you a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The author suggests that ‘new philanthropy’ is asking more from us than what we are providing now. They are calling out philanthropists that lack commitment to causes…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The World Wild Fund, start-up TraSeable, a small fishing company called Sea Quest, and a blockchain company called Viant are all partnering to properly tag and identify seafood…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The author explains the paradox of when bigger corporations such as Amazon want to move into Midwestern cities and provide more jobs, they are actually taking away…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Disasters bring out the best in people. Donations to charities surge as television coverage increases. Yet we know from experience that both coordination and effective spending of donor dollars is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over the past weeks, over 2,000 minors were separated from their parents/guardians at the southern border of the United States. Disturbed by the images and reports of children separated from…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • In nine different cities across the United States, various community-led educational initiatives part of ‘By All Means Cities’ implement programs that are strengthening opportunities for youth…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • John Canty from Doctors Without Borders writes about conditions inside a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh — resources are growing scarce and a punishing…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Mellissa Fung reports that donors’ funding to increase the number of Afghan girls attending school has been stolen or co-opted for other uses. • How can donors…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Legal Food Hub matches small farms and food entrepreneurs with pro bono legal services to keep them from falling to unaffordable legal bills. • What other…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Fast Company reports on MIT Media Lab’s artificial intelligence shipping container that is growing crops in place of outdoor farms that are consistently being affected by climate…