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    New Primary Care Model Wins Tentative Support

    Healthcare Dive Sep 28, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Shannon Muchmore examines the new CMS primary care payment program and the potential pitfalls and benefits of the program. • The CMS program has pathways to support chronic…

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    Puerto Rico Education Reforms Promise Better School Options

    The Heritage Foundation Sep 28, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Authors Jonathan Butcher and Jude Schwalbach advocate for charter schools and voucher programs to give Puerto Rican children a brighter future. • How can the example of…

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    Lessons in Addressing the Racial Wealth Gap

    Ford Foundation Sep 28, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Xavier de Souza Briggs shares five key lessons from the Ford Foundation’s work on the racial wealth gap.  • How can funders apply these lessons to economic…

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    Why We Haven’t Addressed Lead in the Drinking Water in Public Schools

    Nonprofit Quarterly Sep 28, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Debby Warren explains how various parties pass the buck and refuse to allocate budget to address the lead in the drinking water in U.S. public schools.  •…

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    Individual Donors: You Have Superpowers — Let’s Unlock Them

    The Center for Effective Philanthropy Sep 28, 2019

    New research from the Center for Effective Philanthropy titled, Crucial Donors: How Major Individual Givers Can Be Support Nonprofits, sheds light on the value of individual donors. The survey asked nonprofit…

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    The Need for Better Data on City Pollution

    Futurity Sep 27, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Research from the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis revealed that it is difficult to adequately measure pollution in cities, and more…

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    Why Your Company Should Invest Time in Corporate Social Responsibility

    Knowledge@Wharton Sep 27, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • In this podcast, Toby Usnik, author of  The Caring Economy: How to Win with Corporate Social Responsibility, and Daniel Korschun, an associate marketing professor at Drexel University, discuss…

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    Who’s Funding Journalism and How You Can Help

    Democracy and Philanthropy

    Journalism philanthropy has quadrupled in the last eight years. According to data from Foundation Maps for Media Funding—our research and mapping tool developed in partnership with Candid that tracks the…

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    Machine Learning Can Predict How Big Wildfires Will Become

    Futurity Sep 27, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • A team of researchers is using a “decision-tree” algorithm to analyze climate data and atmospheric conditions that will help predict the severity of wildfires.  • How…

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    Climate Change Will Make Seafood Scarcer and More Dangerous

    The New Food Economy Sep 27, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • New research shows that climate change can greatly affect our seafood, from the supply to the actual flavor as the ocean chemistry shifts.  • What can we do…

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    How Wealthy Americans Have Shifted Their Charitable Giving

    Barron's Sep 27, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Fang Block explores the recent shifts in charitable giving by wealthy Americans, highlighting the increasing importance of evidence-based practices.  • How can funders work together to improve the…

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    Student Voices Need to Be Heard and Protected

    The Hechinger Report

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Andre Perry discusses cases in which student voices were rejected or ignored by adult superiors. Perry argues that this is not the message supposed role models and…

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