This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Marie Claire profiles VOW, a charity recently launched by human rights activist Mabel van Oranji, whose mission is to end child marriage globally through partnerships with…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The world is still far off track to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 – ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. Consider some figures on…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Melinda Gates is imploring tech companies to help increase wireless access and invest in programs that will help developing countries. • How will the increase in CSR initiatives…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Bill Gates is funding startups that are experimenting with alternative forms of energy in an effort to battle climate change. • Other significant business entities such as BlackRock Global…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Nonprofit Quarterly profiles the NoVo Foundation and its Radical Hope Fund, which will give grants to big ideas intended to transform society. • Listening to constituents…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • This conversation between experts at FiveThirtyEight explores the possibility that while we know why and how to take climate change action we may choose not to. …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Jake Schneider and Darrell M. West explain how governments and NGOs can help private investments in global health R&D to grow and produce results by increasing…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Yuen Yuen Ang, writing for the Stanford Social Innovation Review, describes how to reform development agencies by highlighting three critical areas of improvement: lack of knowledge about…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Even though a new U.N. report should raise alarms that climate change is far closer than most people realize, it probably won’t change our behavior. TIME…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Aniket Shah provides a framework for impact investors who want to be involved in profitable sustainable investing. • How does this assessment align, or not, with your own…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Kris Putnam-Walkerly explains how philanthropy can bolster social enterprise as an investment tool uniquely situated to take risks for social returns. • How can funders work to form…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Chandler Green shares nine highlights from the UN General Assembly in 2018, including progress on youth engagement, TB action, and harnessing tech for social good. • How…