This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Immediately after completing college, I served in the Peace Corps in Gabon, Central Africa. I was motivated by the mission of improving nutrition outcomes and embraced my charge to help…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Colorado Springs Food Rescue (CSFR) engages its community in building a holistic food redistribution model that utilizes a food donation pickup program. • How can your…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Here are six ways that individuals can positively impact their communities, mainly through volunteering, donating, donation pickup, and supporting small businesses. • How can charitable giving…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Pakistani government isn’t providing children living in poverty with the facilities they need to learn, according to a new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report published Monday. Millions of girls are…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Mohamed Tua Sin, 15, was in class 9 in Myanmar when he was forced to flee to Bangladesh in late August 2017. Attacks by the Myanmar military forced 740,000 ethnic…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Before the pandemic, nine state prison systems and the BOP were operating at 100% capacity or more. These prison systems were holding more people than their facilities were designed to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. COVID-19 has laid bare the deep inequalities our economic model has fostered and thus is a major threat in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, particularly SDG 10 (reducing inequalities). Business has a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. From entertainers to tech moguls to grassroots activists, here are some of the most inspiring people leading the way in the fight to end extreme poverty. Bill and Melinda Gates…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. There is a lot of buzz around climate change—let’s look at the facts to better understand one of the greatest challenges of our time. Fact 1: The term global warming refers…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The past several years have seen an unprecedented uptick in catastrophic natural and man-made disasters in the United States. The International Monetary Fund predicts that the rate of natural disasters…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Berta Cáceres, a human rights defender, indigenous leader, and environmental activist, knew the danger of her struggle against hydroelectric dams on the Gualcarque River in Honduras. She faced near-constant harassment…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Just two weeks into the new school year, Jacquelyn Allsopp, a New Jersey mother of three, was considering unenrolling her 5-year-old daughter from kindergarten. “So much of kindergarten is learning…