This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Indiana lawmakers are improving the process of identifying students in poverty due to changes making the poverty measure less precise. This, in turn, alters funding for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • To combat climate change, there are now more ways to support sucking carbon from the air in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. • Scientists…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Eduprotocols is a series of workflows and systems that help educators facilitate collaborative learning in the classroom and help students engage with the content. • Can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Samuel Campbell tells his story of life inside a prison in Flint, MI, with no access to clean drinking water. • How can donors better understand…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Kimberly Burrowes explains how to conduct equitable placemaking in order to build welcoming and thriving communities. • How can your community benefit from equitable placemaking? • Read…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Jaime Perez interviews students about their interest levels in computer science, finding that lack of exposure, level of support, and social factors are the three main reasons…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Dyvonne Body explores the consequences of consumer debt including the 16% of suicides motivated by financial stress. • How can funders work to minimize the impacts of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Emily Kassie follows this history of immigrant detention in the United States as it has grown over the past four decades. • How can understanding this history…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Lloyd Alter explains the principles of sustainable building: don’t build, build minimally, and use the right materials. • Alter emphasizes not building when avoidable. What are viable…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Britt Neuhaus explains that both rigorous grade-level work and personalized learning are needed to help students catch up to grade-level. • How can funders help schools provide…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Yale Divinity School profiles alum David Wertheimer, former director at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, who has dedicated his life to advancing social causes, specifically in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Social justice advocate Paul Buchheit discusses several tax issues related to society’s power dynamics that he feels often go underreported. • How is the tax system undermining…