Giving Compass' Take:

• Tom Vander Ark at Getting Smart highlights 7 organizations that are bending the arc of history toward expanded human potential in their own ways.

• How can impact philanthropists assist organizations such as the ones listed?

• Here's an article on four keys to success at the most innovative schools in the world.

“Talent is equally distributed but opportunity is not,” said Michael Moe (above) in his kickoff address to the GSV Leadership Summit at MIT.

GSV is a new economy venture fund, accelerator and convenor. Over the last 10 years, the ASU-GSV Summit has become the most important meeting focused on innovations in learning. They hold several smaller meetings during the year, like the one in Cambridge last week, for edtech CEOs and investors.

The summit kicked off with a design thinking exercise on strategies for bending the arc of human potential. During the workshop, participants including Hanna Skandera (below), former chief in New Mexico, developed plans for new tools and practices that would spread access and build employability skills.

Read the full article about organizations bending the arc of human potential by Tom Vander Ark at Getting Smart