This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Efosa Ojomo discusses lessons in innovation, economic prosperity, and purpose from Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen. • Christensen defines innovation as “a change in the process…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Recent studies from the National Bureau of Economic Research indicate that Boston charter schools were able to expand and replicate their model at other schools without sacrificing…
Giving Compass’ Take: • This podcast explores how orphanage voluntourism can cause harm to communities when volunteers are not adequately equipped with the necessary skills needed to work in childcare. …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Sameer Jha is a 17-year-old LGBTQ activist that founded The Empathy Alliance, an organization that aims to help schools build safer environments for LGBTQ youth. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Pacific Standard reports on research finding that migrants and refugees don’t spread diseases to host populations, though migrants themselves are often at higher risk of illness…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Recovery houses and programs can be a significant help when battling opioid addictions at colleges. However, not many exist because colleges do not have the financing and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Amy Brady at Pacific Standard highlights two books that take different approaches to take action against climate change: one recounts America’s failure to act on global warming in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • James Hamblin at The Atlantic exposes a little known deal protects drug companies in the U.S. from being sued writing that when a person reports harm that could…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • State prisons are not covering the cost of treatment for prisoners who have hepatitis C, which is potentially curable now. Some inmates are filing lawsuits against prisons on…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • In this excerpt of Giving Done Right, Phil Buchanan explains why top-down philanthropy is so attractive – and so ineffective. • How can funders best ensure that…
Giving Compass’ Take: • ideas 42,Nudge 4 , and the Heckscher Foundation for Children present this guide walking through the implementation of proven behavioral interventions to help students get to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • National Institute on Aging reports that new guidelines define the difference between Alzheimer’s disease and another, similar condition. • What does this distinction mean for diagnosis and treatment of dementia? How…