Giving Compass' Take:

• John R. Allen at Brookings discusses U.S. foreign aid and global development in the wake of our climate crisis and other ongoing challenges. 

• The author states that climate-based migration may soon create one of the greatest sources of insecurity and conflict in the latter part of the 21st century. How can donors help support our global welfare? 

• Here's an article arguing that giving foreign aid helps America's economy. 

The U.S. government is giving short shrift to international development goals and American values, China appears poised to eclipse America’s economic dominance, and the climate crisis is now an existential threat to us all.

Seeking solutions to tackle these trends and threats, I joined leaders from the U.S. development and foreign aid communities earlier this summer at the Brookings Blum Roundtable, or BBR. This year our focus was on “2020 and Beyond: Maintaining the bipartisan narrative on U.S. global development.”

In attendance were heads of large humanitarian civil society organizations, aid innovators, and advocates for continued U.S. engagement in the world. It was a timely conversation. Just weeks after our roundtable, some of the participants helped stave off a move by the Trump administration to rescind up to $4 billion from the international affairs budget, working with bipartisan leadership on Capitol Hill to avoid the severe cuts.

Read the full article about US foreign aid by John R. Allen at Brookings.