This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Here are three ways states might support schools, teachers, and students over the next year so that learning can be more equitable and accessible. • How can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Toni Adleberg discusses four misconceptions about effective animal advocacy and explores animal welfare and advocacy work. • What are the ways that donors can get involved in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Madeleine Keck explains that educated women slow population growth, reducing climate change based on the example of the southern Indian state of Kerala. • What role can donors…
Giving Compass’ Take: • Kelly Witwicki and Kieran Greig discuss various avenues of effective animal advocacy, focusing on social change and technological development respectively. • Which of these avenues is better aligned with…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When a local education leader’s proposed sanctuary policy for immigrant students was met with resistance in her school system, Education Leaders of Color (EdLoC) lent support to their regional network.…
In 2018, the national venture philanthropy organization New Profit brought together pairs of donors and social entrepreneurs from their community for candid conversations on the future of social problem-solving. These…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Derrick Feldmann highlights how young Americans are responding to the compounding crises of racial injustice and COVID-19. • What role can donors play in supporting the efforts…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Question: Why is engaging in public policy important for your foundation? How much policy work do you do, and how central is it to your work? Blue Shield of California…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Bettina Chang describes the formation of City Bureau, a local journalism lab that aspires to empower the community and give citizens more agency in the stories…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • This is a Q&A with members of the Impact & Sustainable Finance Faculty Consortium about the trends and tensions of the impact finance world. • Are…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • As COVID-19 cases surge in prisons, there is a way for states to expand compassionate release so that more prisoners, particularly those at high-risk, can potentially…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Epidemiologist and public health researcher, Melissa Hawkins, discusses why America is not facing the second wave of coronavirus because it is still in the first wave. •…