This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Marshall Projects provides the known data around the spread of COVID-19 in prisons and highlights the need for additional testing and intervention. • How can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. More investments in early childhood development are needed. This guide provides 13 specific, tested, early childhood investment opportunities donors can pursue immediately to make positive impacts. Strengthen public systems of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. During this crisis, local philanthropy has an essential role to play in bolstering a pillar of their local economies: child care. Two immediate ways they can do this: offer direct…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Only recently, the U.S. government has asked veterans’ homes, assisted living centers, group homes, and other senior housing facilities to report their past and current COVID-19…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Maria Carter explains the importance of the close, in-person relationships and monitoring that happens between children with chronic conditions and school nurses. • As COVID-19 forces…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Grocery workers are on the frontlines of COVID-19, but do not see many benefits, and need more protective measures from the government in order to keep…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Here is a detailed list of corporate donors that are responding to COVID-19 by offering capital and resources for relief efforts. • How can your employer…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Richard Marker explains some of the political and practical challenges that can impede effective participatory grantmaking. • How can funders overcome these barriers to effective participatory grantmaking? …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Jovana Djordjevic and Ruby Johnson of FRIDA (the Young Feminist Fund) explain why letting grantees determine priorities through participatory grantmaking helps put power into the right hands.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • An article at MacArthur Foundation describes contextual analysis, a process used to reverse systemic corruption among state officials in Mexico. • Contextual analysis is one sport…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Akhtar Badshah deems philanthropists a necessity in the pandemic response to prevent a massive uptick in global inequality, poverty, and hunger. • What are you doing…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Merrill Lynch shares how nonprofits can offer the next generation an opportunity to gain a holistic perspective of operations and governance, integrating millennials into the mission…