Giving Compass' Take:

• Sonia Elks reports that NASA is partnering with Mercy Corps to leverage existing satellites to fight climate change and natural disasters. 

• How can funders work to partner with organizations to leverage other existing assets? 

• Learn how climate change could impact your city. 

NASA is using its satellites to solve humanitarian challenges in some of the most fragile places on earth under a landmark partnership with aid agency Mercy Corps.

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration will use its wealth of data to help communities at risk from climate change and natural disaster predict the dangers and build their resilience.

"There is nothing a NASA person likes better than answering a really good question," NASA's disasters program director David Green told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

"That is the excitement of working with Mercy Corps, because they are trying to bring solutions to bear anywhere in the world there is stress, and arguably we are looking at the entire world at any given time."

Read the full article about fighting climate change and natural disasters by Sonia Elks at Global Citizen.