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Giving Compass’ Take: • The Refresh Working Group highlights 5 policy focus areas for regulation the responsible use of technology in every area of the food supply chain. • What role…

Across the nonprofit ecosystem, the imperative to acknowledge and right the deep wrongs of our own institutional histories is prompting more dialogue and action. Reparations for the descendants of enslaved…

On February 1st, Myanmar’s military launched a coup and seized control of the government, less than a decade after the nation began its transition to democracy. Myanmar’s elected leader Aung…

What has the pandemic shown us about ageism in health care, what needs to change and what can philanthropy do to push progress? Ageism is one of many long-standing problems in…

Even before the outbreak of COVID-19 and resulting mass closures, high-quality child care was in short supply. Between 2018 and 2019, half of states actually saw a decline in the number of…

All living beings grow, shift and evolve, and we change by doing. For those of us bent on social change, we are always experimenting, learning as we go, changing ourselves…

Preventing and ending homelessness must include both specialized homelessness services and nontargeted resources — housing, employment, education, and health care — that can help people achieve housing stability and go on to pursue…

2018 is the year I officially gave up on traditional philanthropy. I have been disillusioned for some time with how intermediating institutions seem to lose sight of their purpose as…

On January 6, we witnessed an unprecedented attack on American democracy — the culmination of a sustained campaign to undermine the integrity of the November 2020 election and, ultimately, overturn…

In recent weeks, there have been over 20 attacks on Asian businesses and people, mostly elders, with little to no coverage from the mainstream news outlets. Videos documenting such attacks…

On the campaign trail, President Biden proposed increasing federal funding for K–12 education, in part by tripling Title I spending, and it is likely the new administration will want to…

Over the past half a century, the difference in net worth held by families of color compared with white families has expanded substantially and is likely to grow amid the…