This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted nearly every aspect of our lives, with dramatic implications for the social sector. Just as needs across our communities multiply with the strain of new…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Nina Lakhani explains that in many places across America people are already living without running water and more risk losing access to this necessity during the coronavirus…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Marshall Project shares data from each state about the spread of coronavirus in prisons. • How can funders work to address the spread of COVID-19…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Kyle Legleiter and Jake Williams explain how the Colorado Health Foundation created and endowed Healthier Colorado to advocate for health policy changes. • How can other…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • In Dear Ijeawele, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie explores the pernicious and pervasive problems of sexism and racism around the world. • How can donors help to usher in equality? How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Global Citizen explains how Anuradha Koirala, known as Nepal’s ‘Mother Teresa’, rescues and helps exploited young children and women that were sold into sex slavery. · How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The authors at the MacArthur Foundation discuss philanthropy’s ability to provide catalytic capital to drive profit and impact for enterprises in need. • Catalytic capital is an…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Right now, state and local governments across the country have started to consider re-opening certain businesses and, what a phased re-entry might look like. As a nonprofit leader, you may…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • COVID-19 threaten the sustainability of college programs in prison, despite many educators finding creative workarounds to maintain classes. • Where can donors fill the gaps for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Here are six trends that predict how sustainable investing may change and reshape CSR practices in a post-COVID-19 world. • One prediction is that ESG investing…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Northwestern University urban politics professor Sally Afia Nuamah discusses school closures due to COVID-19 and their impact on Black and Latino families that have already experienced…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • In Virginia, one school district plans to retrofit school buses with wireless routers to increase student access to Wi-Fi during COVID-19. • How can donors help…