This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Prison-to-College Pipeline works to bring higher education to incarcerated persons to increase justice and safety in communities around the world. • What do inmates need to successfully reintegrate into…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The European Community Foundation Initiative (ECFI) Guide ‘Connecting Community Foundations helps philanthropy organizations utilize an SDG framework for local action and global good. • How can individual donors…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Christine Crudo Blackburn and Leslie Ruyle write for The Conversation about the crucial impact of national leaders’ decision-making on coronavirus response effectiveness. • How are vulnerable…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • At The Aspen Institute, The McNulty Foundation shares the benefits of building trust during crisis on alleviating suffering in vulnerable communities. • Why is trust an…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Efosa Ojomo explains that Sustainable Development Goal One, ending extreme poverty, is ambitious but, as COVID-19 shows, insufficient. • Ojomo advocates for creating shared prosperity through market-creating innovations.…
Giving Compass’ Take: • Yale Center for Business and the Environment concludes that because of their social impact elements, B Corps and Benefit Corporations have the potential to drive big returns for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Climate and food security experts shed light on how feeding cities sustainably depends on the size of food supply chains and scaling up urban agriculture. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In this series, I have made a case for a seismic shift in philanthropy away from attempting to fund pre-defined “outcomes” by controlling grantees. Rather, we want to lean into…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Sophie Edwards explains that approximately 750 million people over the age of 15 still lack basic reading and writing skills. Global literacy across the world needs to improve and is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating menstrual health inequities for women, but more investment in menstrual health and hygiene initiatives could bring about positive outcomes for women…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Clare Woodcraft, Tayyab Ahmed, and Kamal Munir explain how philanthropy’s capacity for collaboration, connecting with communities, and creativity can address COVID-19 in ways that the public and private sectors…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • William Foster, Gail Perreault, and Elise Tosun examine the “how” of making big bets in philanthropy (rather than the “what”) so that funders and foundations can…