This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Avoid common grantmaking missteps by reading this list and creating a cohesive grantmaking strategy that will serve you and your community. • How can grantmakers better…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • HSBC is no longer investing in fossil-fuel based projects, following the lead set by ING, BNP Paribas, and BlackRock Investments. • How can this trend in divestment continue to grow?…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The dignity mindset involves focusing on providing the individual who is being served with compassion, even as organizations scale up and expand their reach. • How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Information & Communications Technology for Development Conference in Lusaka, Zambia illuminated three trends regarding human centered design, scaling solutions, and safeguarding data. • How can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Devex discusses the concept of “blended finance” in development and the important questions we need to explore before fully committing to the practice through U.S. institutions.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Olam International recently announced AtSource, its supply chain tracking program that it plans to use on all of its products by 2025 to increase transparency and improve…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Pact is an international development organization that is launching a global initiative called Energy for Prosperity in the hopes of making sustainable electricity accessible to all global…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Disease Control Priorities project is now in its third edition and covers sanitation services that are working effectively, ones that are not, and what is cost-effective for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Due to the rapid pace of urbanization throughout the world, there are higher rates of unemployed, urban youth that are moving towards patterns of violence instead of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Town & Country takes a look back on the advocacy work that late Princess Diana did, especially her push to ban landmines, which was controversial at…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Impact investing first entered our lexicon in 2007 and more than a decade later, the practice is at a crossroads. Demand is growing. For many people, “money is a way…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Following the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal, more humanitarians and philanthropists are concerned about data privacy. However, many are also examining the opportunities to use data collection to enhance…