This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In light of school closures caused by COVID-19, millions of students are home for the remainder of the academic year. Philanthropy will play a vital role in the response to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is supporting research on the COVID-19 pandemic that will address critical data gaps and provide insights. • Are there opportunities for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Career and technical education models are changing to adapt to new expectations due to COVID-19. • COVID-19 will significantly change education models, which may impact how…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • More foundations are starting to create pooled-funding initiatives to build capacity for nonprofit organizations so that collaboration can increase resiliency and nonprofit effectiveness. • How can individual…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Times Higher Education created a tool that now ranks higher education institutions based on social impact informed by the SDG framework. • How will this addition…
Giving Compass’ Take: • In this video, panelists discuss food security in the U.S., exploring how the pandemic has touched all facets of the food supply chain and system. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Here are four ways that higher education institutions can maintain COVID-19 aid and funding given to college students in need. • How can donors help fund…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • These five practices were the common denominator in 15 successful philanthropy moonshots for lasting social change. • How can these practices be applied to your ongoing…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Alia Wong discusses a study that suggests that the women’s suffrage movement helped improve education because more kids stayed in school during this time period. • What is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Founding member of Animal Grantmakers Andrew Rowan spent most of his early years in Cape Town, South Africa after being born in Zimbabwe and spending three years on Tristan da…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Animals play a positive role in the health of individuals, families and communities. The spike in pet fostering and adoptions during COVID-19 is an example of this. As people have…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Nonprofit Quarterly discusses the elements of effective nonprofit oversight, using the example of a service dog organization in Virginia to show how a lack of regulation…