This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compas’ Take: • This article reflects on the connection between zoo architecture and the natural environment, the balance between science and slick branding, and the zoo building’s hybrid role as…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Tessa Srebro highlights the benefits of consistent employee volunteer programs versus a few big employee volunteer events. • Limiting the number of volunteer opportunities does not take into…
Giving Compass’ Take: • Abigail Marsh explains the variations in brain chemistry that account for some differences in the level of altruism people display. • How does understanding altruism help us…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Jill Barshay reports that increased segregation is occurring between – not within – school districts, pointing to population distribution as a cause of segregation. • How can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Marcus Casey shares three ways for policy to boost the economy by helping companies upskill their workers. • How can funders best support the development of skills…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Atul Gawande discusses the bias and inequality in the American medical care system and calls on individuals to go above and beyond to close the gap. ·…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Richard V. Reeves and Ashley Schobert discuss the family wage penalty that hurts low- and middle-income parents. • Hocan funders work to reduce/eliminate the motherhood/family wage penalty? •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Smart, effective giving requires continuous learning along the donor journey. Often the best sources for this learning are the lessons shared by other donors themselves. This past January, the Dorothy…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • As digital media emerges, newsrooms are redesigning their spaces to align with workflows, attitudes, and behaviors that are necessary for a more modern media companies. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Nancy Lublin, founder of Crisis Text Line, shares her journey as an entrepreneur who needed early-stage funding from donors to get her social enterprise off the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over the last 15 years, I’ve consulted with a few clients who, in the midst of our strategic planning sessions or evaluation efforts, must deal with the added stress of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Female philanthropists are creating a giving circle movement, where family, friends, or individuals with similar values can pool their resources together to address social problems. •…