This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Researchers have been collecting and disseminating a global COVID-19 behavior survey since July 2020. The survey has reached nearly 1.7 million participants in 67 countries. The most recent data was…
Giving Compass’ Take: • Here are recommendations for how philanthropy can respond to the humanitarian needs of regional asylum seekers who have pending cases in the United States. • Beyond the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the early 2010s, GiveDirectly gave the poorest households in rural western Kenya big unconditional cash transfers (UCTs), roughly equivalent to a year’s income. A year later, the result was…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. From 2007 to 2017, the number of giving circles—a group of volunteers who combine their financial resources and skills to solve social problems rooted in their local communities—tripled. This increasingly…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Female genital mutilation (FGM) is the practice of cutting and partially or entirely removing the external female genitalia, and also includes any other harm or injury caused to the female…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Every year, the U.S. imports billions of dollars worth of seafood from countries that may be using forced labor on distant water fishing vessels. A growing cadre of tech companies…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When a severe winter storm tore through Texas last Monday, Kirby Lynch lost water and power in her RV home in Collin County. The snow came up to her ankles…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Working in meatpacking plants has always been dangerous. A recent study shows that it became deadlier in the era of COVID-19, even as company profits soared. This analysis, published in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A few months ago a program officer and I were talking about the lack of funding that goes to communities-of-color-led nonprofits (only about 10% of philanthropic dollars go to organizations of color).…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Today’s climate justice activists are applying that same lens when they highlight the dangers these US communities face from climate change’s effects—increased coastal and riverine flooding, longer heat waves and droughts,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As complex systems unfold—and mankind’s impact on them and theirs on us is revealed—we are left searching for the most effective ways to understand and respond to the changing world…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Cities across the United States, and New York City especially, are dealing with explosive virus transmission rates and dwindling hospital resources. It makes sense that city dwellers are itching to flee…