This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. CDP recently hosted a webinar, Flood, Famine and Fire: Building a Climate Justice Analysis in Philanthropy, to explore how funders can help address climate change issues by building a more robust…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Grief in veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq has been as largely overlooked as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. According to the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Benjamin Preston directs RAND’s Community Health and Environmental Policy Program . He specializes in climate risk and adaptation, and its flip side, disaster recovery and resilience. What inspired you to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A ballroom full of superintendents and other educators gathering from across the country just returned from lunch break when they were asked to stand up for a stretch. “We are…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Teaching media literacy can help foster student activism by applying a critical perspective to the inequalities within media messages and symbols that students see every day. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Effective leadership from principals can happen by empowering teachers to do their best, rather than focusing on achieving assessment outcomes. • The desired outcomes should happen if…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Drs. Beti Thompson and Nancy E. Davidson explain the severe gap between breast outcomes for black women and white women. • What is the role of donors to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) leaders of environmental and climate nonprofits experienced a surge in support from US foundations in response to COVID-19 and the murder of George Floyd. But…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In spring 2020, like so many in the nonprofit fundraising space, the organization I then worked for refashioned our large-scale luncheon to a virtual experience. A year later, with pandemic…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The evidence is clear that the cost of mental illness in the workplace is significant and widespread, and that it accumulates over a worker’s lifetime. Almost 20% of working adults…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The West is burning. The South and East are flooding. There’s a drought in the Midwest. The rapid onslaught of climate change is here, and with it, a paradigm shift;…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Elementary school children in the United States will soon have one more layer of protection to keep them safe from COVID-19. On Oct. 29, 2021, the Food and Drug Administration…