This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Philanthropy can play a role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 but has to embrace the various complexities. · How is philanthropy addressing local issues…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For many foundations, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a means to direct their efforts according to a larger, internationally recognised development framework, potentially increasing the value of those efforts…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic has filled our newsfeeds, our schools, our politics and our living rooms for two years. Our collective attention has been almost singularly focused on the pandemic and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Population Services International (PSI) joins more than 150 organizations to support the Thriving Together: Environmental Conservation and Family Planning initiative. As an organization that believes in putting the consumer at the center…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Heat waves, earthquakes, floods, droughts and disastrous sea levels are already occurring with disturbing frequency. These extreme weather events have become a major risk for business — and a mounting…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Much of the news coming out of the U.N. climate conference has focused on the spectacle, and how countries’ pledges aren’t on track to prevent dangerous climate change. But behind the scenes,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Food system experts gathered at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) Nourish Scotland Pavilion in Glasgow on November 7 to discuss the role philanthropy should play in the climate emergency.…
It is estimated that three billion people around the world don’t have access to adequate electricity. Seeing this as an amazing opportunity, in 2012, MPOWERD created the innovative Luci light. The…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Can art change the world? Or can it at least inspire people to engage with an urgent issue they’d otherwise be inclined to ignore? A new study of activist art…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 1994, a teenager from Dayton, Ohio, found himself at the centre of a major international controversy… Michael Fay, then eighteen, was living with his mother and stepfather in Singapore…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Strawberries at Christmas: an image that epitomizes consumer fantasies from the global food supply chain. Hidden behind the haze of food supply “magic” is the reality of increasingly pressured resources…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Climate Resilience Justice Fund, backed by funders including Porticus, Oak, Bosch, and Ikea Foundations, has called for at least $1 billion in philanthropic funding to address the injustice already…