This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Growing up in public housing in North Charleston, S.C., in the 1970s, David Hayward was familiar with poverty, violence and loss. His mother, grandmother and brother all died when he…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Kathleen E. Grogan discusses the numerous areas where gender bias restricts the success of female STEM professionals and how the scientific community can address these biases.…
Giving Compass’ Take: • Experts at Fred Hutch discuss prevalent racial health gaps in breast cancer and other diseases, as well as strategies to narrow these gaps. • How can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If you are looking for a way to encourage your board to think deeper about the issues impacting your organization, try using generative governance principles. This resource explains how they…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When the vaccines against Covid-19 first started rolling out less than a year ago, there was widespread hope that it signaled the beginning of the end of the pandemic. As we head…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. More than one billion people around the world live with a disability. At some point, most of us will likely experience a temporary, situational, or permanent disability. Employment and education rates are…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The world’s forests face a dire threat. Each year, 15 million to 22 million acres of forests are permanently cleared and many millions more are degraded. But many decisions affecting…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For those of us who have participated in a half-century of powerful activism by people with disabilities, a familiar slogan summarizes our call to action: Nothing about us without us. As…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over the past several years, it’s become increasingly convenient to label cities and metro areas as “blue” and prosperous and rural areas as “red” and distressed. This dichotomy pits urban…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For years now, researchers at RAND have documented the enormous toll that sexual harassment and assault have on the men and women of the U.S. military. In a recent report, they…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over the past four decades, the time between tropical storms making landfall in the Gulf Coast has been getting shorter. By the end of the century, Louisiana and Florida could…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The study investigates the potential of Industries without Smokestacks (IWOSS) to create jobs in Ethiopia and focuses on agro-processing (particularly food and beverage), horticulture, tourism, and transport sectors. These categories…