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    Why Asking Better Questions is Imperative to Creating a Better World

    Stanford Social Innovation Review

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Social sector leaders need to pivot their questions to focus on creating a more equitable and healthy future through social innovation.  • How can donors support…

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    How the Birmingham Service Corp Tackles COVID-19 Unemployment

    Brookings Jul 24, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Brookings’ article about the Birmingham Service Corps demonstrates how urban centers can combine health and economic solutions during coronavirus. • What are you doing to support…

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    What Am I Willing to Give? What Am I Willing to Give Up?

    Camelback Ventures

    How Individual Giving Can Reshape America I am a white mother of boys, an educator, and perpetual learner. I seek to cultivate love, growth, and thoughtfulness in all that I…

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    The Peacebuilding Potential of Connecting Women and Natural Resources

    UNEP | UN Women | PBSO | UNDP Jul 24, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Research from an inter-agency effort of the UN reveals how connecting women and natural resources can help to build and sustain peace.  • How can funders…

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    Unsafe Drinking Water in Schools: Where It Is and What to Do

    Business Insider

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Hilary Brueck explains how students in at least nine areas across the United States are being exposed to lead in their water at school and shares what…

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    Using Entrepreneurship to Successfully Boost a Rural Economy

    Brookings

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Jenna Temkin explains how a rural town called Wytheville, Virginia, uses entrepreneurship to boost its local economy by providing a large grant to the winners of…

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    Gender Inequity and Retirement

    Brookings Jul 24, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Grace Enda and William G. Gale explain the factors that create inequitable retirement savings that disadvantage women.  • What role can you play in system change to. address…

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    India: A Cultural View of Sanitation [Book Review]

    Stanford Social Innovation Review

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Where India Goes by Coffey and Spears analyzes the causes and policy implications of poor sanitation practices in rural India.  • As the authors take a deeper dive into the…

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    Effectively Using Data to Build Back Better After Lockdown

    Think NPC Jul 24, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • At Think NPC, Peter O’Flynn prompts organizations and funders to ask themselves about their approach to data during COVID-19 in order to build back better after…

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    Tearing Apart Deep Racial Inequalities in COVID-19 Recovery

    Brookings Jul 24, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Authors writing for Brookings explain why dismantling racial inequalities are critical requirements in the recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. • How has the pandemic revealed deeply…

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    The Impact of Racial Bias in Facial Recognition Technology

    NPR Jul 24, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • At NPR, Bobby Allyn recounts the racially biased arrest of Robert Williams, a Black man who was misidentified by facial recognition technology. • How might the…

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    The Vulnerable Communities Include Arts and Cultural Workers

    RAND Jul 23, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • The authors discuss the unique challenges for art and cultural workers during the COVID-19 pandemic and why these communities are vulnerable.   • How can local governments…

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