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Global Issues are Connected and that Matters

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• Global issues such as health, environment, finance, and conflict are all interconnected. The author shows the connections between both global problems and solutions in hopes of further understanding the best course of action.

• Are you ready to address issues collectively? How can partnerships help to address issues together?

• Read Fast Company coverage of the competition that brought about four finalists who will help solve global issues.


Although we may think about specific global issues like health, conflict, finance, and the environment as separate – and perhaps unrelated – challenges to be tackled independently, the reality is far from it. They are actually deeply connected, and our understanding, appreciation, and responses should be shaped accordingly.

The interconnectedness of these issues is at the heart of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which have been purposefully crafted to be inclusive and integrated across the social, economic, environmental, and governance fields.

Of course, our ability to address these issues is directly correlated to our ability to mobilize resources at the scale needed. Current estimates suggest that achieving the SDGs will take between $5-7 trillion in annual investments – a figure that far exceeds current levels of official government aid and suggests the need for innovative new models of financing to fill the gap.

Here are a few examples of where we see undeniable connections:

– Approximately 87% of people in extreme poverty live in countries that are fragile and/or are environmentally vulnerable.

– Nine of the 10 countries most affected by extreme weather events between 1997 and 2016 were developing countries. In many impacted regions reliant on farming, such as sub-Saharan Africa, communities struggle to recover from periods of extreme rainfall followed by extreme drought – extreme patterns that are becoming more common as a result of climate change.

Despite these enormous challenges, there are positive signals of progress.For example, the recent UN-World Bank report, Pathways to Peace, identified a savings of up to $70 billion a year if the global community is able to implement a scaled-up system for prevention. These cost savings could be reinvested in reducing poverty, improving health, addressing climate change, and advancing prosperity.

Read the full article about interconnection between global issues by Kaysie Brown at United Nations Foundation

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    The Push For More Accountability and Alignment In Philanthropy

    Giving Compass' Take: • The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy published some reflections from the Just Transition Forum about making sure the sector is emphasizing more accountability. • What should funders do? The article concludes with a call for more peer support, organization and resource access in efforts to develop more respectful relationships with grassroots groups when it comes to community-led equitable grantmaking. • More knowledge always helps as well. Here are five orgs devoted to closing the racial gap. What does accountability in philanthropy look like today? This was a particularly salient question at the Just Transition Forum, a powerful cross-sector convening hosted by the Building Equity and Alignment (BEA) for Impact Initiative in Jackson, Mississippi, in February. The BEA “brings together dynamic grassroots organizing groups, effective national green organizations and innovators in philanthropy to advance the progress of the environmental movement towards a just transition and directly confront powerful polluters.” ... We discussed philanthropy’s current realities, how we show up and what we bring to the movement. Accountability was a prominent theme: We named that we operate in a sector that has few mechanisms for accountability and transparency, and identified a need to push for structures that support and move philanthropy towards “true accountability.” ... Today, mainstream grantmakers still hold enormous power, privilege and gatekeeping abilities, isolating them from the inequities and injustices experienced at the grassroots. With no “natural predators” beyond the IRS and tax policy in the United States, and ongoing sector disagreement over the fact that foundation dollars are partially public dollars, it’s no wonder that this challenge continues to plague the sector. Reflecting on this same report in 2013, our president Aaron Dorfman wrote, “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” But philanthropy can and must move beyond upwards accountability to boards, donors and founders, and operationalize accountability downwards to nonprofit partners and communities.


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