This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Thomas S. McDonald explains how mass incarceration in the United States harms public health as jailed individuals die at an appalling rate. • How can philanthropists…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Addressing the recent print-your-own gun debate, Lindsay Schakenbach Regele discusses the history of the US government’s involvement in the gun industry and what the future firearms debate should…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • EdSource discusses the results of a new poll showing that voters in California believe that school environment and safety are much more important than high test…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Emflower is a social enterprise program at the YWCA of Greater Flint that helps female survivors of domestic violence learn how to garden as a way to heal…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Researcher David Roodman found, even using the most favorable cost-benefit valuation for the “deterrence” hypothesis, that even if increasing incarceration rates leads to a decrease in crime,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • According to Chalkbeat, education leaders in New York are condemning the idea that schools may be able buy guns with federal money in the future, according…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Jennifer L. Doleac explains how research reveals that access to healthcare reduces crime in a cost-effective manner. • What are the other benefits of healthcare access? How…
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: • 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: • Emma Hinchcliffe highlights the launch of AllVoices, a social startup created by Claire Schmidt last year that helps individuals report sexual harassment that happen in the workplace. …
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: • The Christian Science Monitor reports on a neighborhood in Chicago’s South Side which has actually reduced the number of shootings since 2016 (despite an uptick citywide…