This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Grief in veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq has been as largely overlooked as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. According to the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Benjamin Preston directs RAND’s Community Health and Environmental Policy Program . He specializes in climate risk and adaptation, and its flip side, disaster recovery and resilience. What inspired you to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A ballroom full of superintendents and other educators gathering from across the country just returned from lunch break when they were asked to stand up for a stretch. “We are…
Access to preventative medical care is #Solvable. By making use of inactive militaries deployed around the world, Admiral James Stavridis describes how we can provide preventative medical care to the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Teaching media literacy can help foster student activism by applying a critical perspective to the inequalities within media messages and symbols that students see every day. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Effective leadership from principals can happen by empowering teachers to do their best, rather than focusing on achieving assessment outcomes. • The desired outcomes should happen if…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Drs. Beti Thompson and Nancy E. Davidson explain the severe gap between breast outcomes for black women and white women. • What is the role of donors to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Cooped up at home in Herat, Afghanistan, Zainab Muhammadi reminisces about hanging out with her friends in the cafeteria after coding class. Now she logs on every day to secret…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) leaders of environmental and climate nonprofits experienced a surge in support from US foundations in response to COVID-19 and the murder of George Floyd. But…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In spring 2020, like so many in the nonprofit fundraising space, the organization I then worked for refashioned our large-scale luncheon to a virtual experience. A year later, with pandemic…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. COP26, rightly critiqued for its exclusionary approach, will shape how governments respond to the climate crisis. It is also as an organising moment for civil society, and a chance for funders…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The most recent global energy shock is highlighting how important, and how hard, a well-managed transition to net-zero will be. While company engagement on climate change is rapidly evolving, new…