This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. COVID-19 has changed everything about our daily lives. People are keeping their distance. Businesses have had to completely shift their way of doing business or closed entirely. Organizations everywhere are…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If you want to donate to charity, should you go out and pick an organization today? Or should you wait, save your money, and leave it to charity in your…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It all started in 2008 when scientists started noticing fire salamanders in the Netherlands were disappearing. In 2013, scientists identified the culprit: a new-to-science chytrid fungus they named Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Effective altruism is still widely misunderstood in academia, so I took the opportunity to write up my thoughts on how effective altruism should be defined and why, and to respond…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A recent paper in the science journal Marine Policy asks if the current focus on plastic pollution is distracting society from even larger challenges facing the ocean, and if a focus on…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Women hold two-thirds of the jobs in the harshest category of work, according to new report on Washington workers during the pandemic. The researchers looked at data on demographics, working…
Giving Compass’ Take: • A report from The Aspen Institute aims to address misguided, preconceived notions about rural America, many of which are shaped by the media. • How does…
Rural areas are seeing some of the fastest spread of the COVID-19 in the U.S., taxing already stressed rural health care systems. Researchers Tanisa Adimu and Amanda Phillips Martinez head…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For health funders, it is essential that we realize that even given all of the unforeseen devastation of COVID-19, and the compounding social crises in its wake, many of our…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For Nathan Bradford Jr., work doesn’t end after his full-time job. When he’s not working at a natural gas processing plant, he’s ranching in Bristow, Oklahoma. There’s a lot of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If the presidential election of 2016 did nothing else, it put rural America’s “brain drain” on the public radar. Seemingly overnight, reporters and political pundits started connecting dots they had…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Charlotte Brugman: Tell me a little bit about your organizations and what led you both to seek grantee feedback for the first time. Tim Wilson: City Bridge Trust is London’s largest…