This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Louis Freedberg explains that research has revealed that poverty levels in schools were more strongly linked to achievement gaps than racial composition. • How can funders work to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The biggest source of philanthropic support for nonprofits in the United States is giving from individual donors. Of the $428 billion in total charitable giving in 2018, individual donors contributed…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The WeatherBlur project is an online learning community that helps students engage in citizen science, leveraging technology to advance place-based learning. • How can educators have…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Hechinger Report writes on Mississippi’s first rural charter school and the challenges that it faces because of history in the Deep South, as well as…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Shasche Allen shares the latest information from published studies and reports on homelessness from the last few months. • How can donors help support housing and programs for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • An experimental device uses machine learning tools—and a bathroom scale—to monitor heart failure. • How can donors help fund more research to help heart disease and heart…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Wayne D’Orio explains that colleges’ efforts to improve the teacher pipeline to address the teacher shortage have fallen short in part because of low pay. • How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Aurelia Kassatly provides an overview of the types of challenges that philanthropists and foundations face when trying to use and collect data. • How can smaller foundations address these…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Amanda Ripley examines data from the 2018 Education at a Glance report and finds that the price of a college degree in the U.S. is so high,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • There is a higher rate of injury and trauma for aging and disabled populations in the wake of a disaster. Here are some critical disaster relief…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • RAND researchers, in collaboration with Los Angeles Unified School District and UCLA, developed the Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS), which helps mental health professionals…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • At a convening called Rethink ED, innovators in education discussed three hallmarks in learning: Equity, student-centered learning, and real-world learning. • What are education leaders doing…