This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It is, I promise, worse than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the impact investing community, there is continuing talk about whether “the big tent” — created by the diversity of strategies and approaches pursued by investors– is too big. There are continuing calls for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When civil war began in Yemen in 2015, so did the growth of solar power. Read more about energy practices on Giving Compass The crisis took out the already unreliable…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. At gatherings in Davos and a series of World Economic Forum reports, Abigail Noble has tried to nudge the world’s largest asset managers toward impact investing. Done. Or at least…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Multi-service organizations (MSOs)—nonprofits that provide services across multiple categories such as substance abuse, housing, and education—tend to be organized around the services they deliver, not the needs of the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The global education crisis can seem overwhelming. Today, there are 263 million children and young people throughout the world who are not in school, and 60 million of them live…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. You could say Facebook Messenger was once the social network’s most loathed feature. In 2014, the company forced users to download a separate app if they wanted to send and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Some of the world’s most influential billionaire philanthropists plan to launch a powerful digital platform to harness the avalanche of data sent from satellites each day—and make it freely available…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Pakistan is the sixth most populated country in the world, and at least two in five Pakistanis will live in urban areas by 2020. But, as in the rest of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. There are currently more than 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States. Find more information about nonprofit collaboration on Giving Compass One important type is the field-building intermediary, which engages…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Generous funders have fueled the spectacular growth of global NGOs in recent years. But the money comes with strings that thwart these organizations’ ability to create the platforms for scale…
Sixty-five million people were displaced from their homes by conflict and disaster in 2016. It’s not just a crisis; it’s a test of who we are and what we stand…