This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Members of the University of Michigan’s Sustainable Food Systems Initiative reviewed recent academic papers that discuss the United Nations goal of ending hunger and malnutrition worldwide by 2030. They reviewed…
On December 10th Cara Page, Black Queer Feminist cultural/memory worker, curator, and organizer and Richael Faithful (they/them), a multi/interdisciplinary folk healing artist, healing culture strategist, conflict worker, radical lawyer, complex…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Simultaneous crises of a pandemic and recession are further straining a special education system that has long struggled to effectively serve students with disabilities. Chronic shortfalls in federal funding have…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A chipped painting of a white field and a bold red cross on cinder block in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, is the legacy of foreign aid after the 2010 earthquake. The same…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Corporate giving in 2018 – both cash and in-kind — accounted for 5.4 percent of donations to charity, or about $20 billion, Giving USA 2019 estimates. In addition, companies provide at least…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Community foundations are 501(c)(3) public charities that engage in both grantmaking and fundraising activities. With more than 700 community foundations in the U.S., it’s likely that your nonprofit works within…
Giving Compass’ Take: • NPC shares 10 steps to develop a theory of change that can be used to build and direct strategy to address social issues. • How can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With less than a month before some Chicago teachers could return to school buildings, the teachers union has said it rejects the district’s plan for “simultaneous instruction.” The union also is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Chicago’s Black educators who taught in high-poverty schools were more likely to receive lower scores on teacher evaluations, new research shows, pointing to bias in a widely used measure that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Bahar Aliakbarian, Michigan State University Bahar Aliakbarian is an expert in supply chain management in pharmaceuticals and a professor at the School of Packaging at Michigan State University. Below, she…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Weaving through the barren roads of North Memphis, Tennessee, I drive past rows of blighted homes, a tattered gas station with the sole grocery store, and a few bus stops…
Police and prisons don’t make us feel safe, argues Zach Norris, Executive Director, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Rather, what matters are relationships and community. Norris believes in the power…