This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Julia Wilson, writing for TriplePundit, describes the variety of ESG reporting available to companies and how these entities can make the most of strategic and thoughtful ESG…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Family foundations have long been a philanthropic mainstay on the Southern landscape, making pathbreaking investments to advance a region that lags the nation in the overall level of foundation assets.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • After Susana Cordova released her 100-day plan to improve Denver Public Schools, funders cannot agree on how family and community engagement can help achieve positive educational…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In April, NCRP launched the Movement Investment Project, a new initiative to help foundations and donors better connect their resources with grassroots movements for social justice. This year the Movement Investment…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • In this opinion piece from the Heritage Foundation, James Jay Carafano argues that the United States’ broken immigration system has created a crisis. • How can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Wilson Foundation shares lessons from its board succession planning process and how to prioritize tasks that would benefit the philanthropic community during a time of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Vehicles for Changes, a nonprofit organization in Oregon, is converting old school buses into tiny houses for homeless families. • How can funders help support tiny…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Fast Company highlights a new startup called PadSplit, that instead of trying to build new affordable housing, they are converting existing homes into multiple single-room units…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • EdSurge sits down with neuroscientist Mariale Hardiman recently to learn about recent findings around how injecting art into lessons across disciplines can boost memory and retention. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Thomas Arnett argues that edtech not only influences student outcomes directly, but also has a potential indirect impact by enabling shifts in teachers’ practices in this opinion piece…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Charles Keidan questions philanthropy’s unbalanced investments in the sector’s media – favoring PR over unbiased reporting. • How can funders work together to support impartial media coverage…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Since the 1980s, an escalating combination of resource extraction, economic globalization and automation, retail consolidation, industrial agriculture, fossil fuel development, and regressive tax and budget policies has hurt many rural…