This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The U.N. Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) will take place in New York on September 23. But more than 300 civil society organizations and Indigenous groups are boycotting the event due to concerns over exclusion…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Sadadra Davis spends hundreds of dollars every month to talk to her fiancé, Johnion Davis, on the phone. They’re inseparable, she says, even though he has spent the last few…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. How have female leaders in higher education shaped the state of the field today, and what broader lessons can be learned from them? Recently, Carmen Twillie Ambar, president of Oberlin…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Sentientism has much in common with humanism. Like humanism, it is pro-human rights and focused on our common global humanity. It is anti-sexist, anti-racist, anti-ageist, anti-ableist, anti-nationalistic and anti-LGBTQ+phobic. Both…
Giving Compass’ Take: • RAND Corporation reports that emerging technologies present a wealth of possibilities – and new challenges – for the criminal justice system. • How can policy be…
Giving Compass’ Take: • German Institute for International and Security Affairs identifies funding challenges and shortfalls in the global effort to protect refugees. • This paper is written from a perspective…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Bayview-Hunters Point, a low-lying, four-square-mile pitch of southeast San Francisco, has seen its fair share of transition, and even drama. Massive real estate projects on the sites of the decommissioned…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Even the largest place-based funders have comparatively limited resources to support community priorities. In recent years, many of the place-based funders from 12 regions across the country who gathered in a learning…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Our modern world is facing a number of interrelated and complex global problems comprising everything from climate change, cancer, dementia, and mental health — not to mention a global pandemic…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Funders’ identities inevitably shape how they show up within organizations and communities. Many people of color have spent their philanthropic careers trying to navigate the white centers of power that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When the Supreme Court refused to block Texas’s radical anti-abortion law stand in the first week of September, reproductive justice leaders were not surprised. In a healthy, safe and equitable world, all pregnant people should have access to high-quality abortion…
Water, roads, bridges, broadband, affordable housing – these pieces of physical infrastructure are all critical to fostering prosperous rural communities with a good quality of life. Physical infrastructure is an…