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    How Can We Make Water and Sanitation More Accessible?

    The World Bank

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Kamila Anna Galeza and Deepti Samant Raja discuss simple improvements to water and sanitation programs to make them accessible to people with disabilities. • How can accessible water…

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    Erasing Forest Protections Could Threaten Large Carbon Sink

    Inside Climate News Oct 26, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Sabrina Shankman discusses the Trump Administration’s plan to make Alaska’s Tongass Forest developable, and how it could impact carbon sequestration. • How could impacts from repealing the Roadless…

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    Assessing Strategies for Reducing Poverty in Africa

    Brookings Oct 25, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Louise Fox unpacks the World Bank study Accelerating Poverty Reduction in Africa, revealing why Africa is not on track for SDG 1: Ending Poverty.  • How can funders…

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    The Water and Sanitation Crisis [Video]

    WaterAid Oct 24, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • WaterAid outlines the critical issues of the water crisis, and what it means for women who can’t access water nor have proper sanitation facilities.  • How…

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    Three Reasons People Give Up On Innovation

    WASHfunders Oct 18, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Mambwe Chella, writing for WASHfunders, explores three hurdles that WASH innovators face on a daily basis and how to combat these challenges. • How can you…

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    Why Water Conservation Still Matters in NYC

    Medium Oct 17, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Camille Duvall Hero, writing for Medium, discusses why New Yorkers need to think about water conservation and sanitation in an effort to be more environmentally prepared.…

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    Company Sets New Sustainability Goals Around Plastic Use

    GreenBiz Oct 17, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Unilever recently promised to collect and process more used plastic packaging and reduce its use of one-time plastics by 2025. • Will other companies follow in…

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    The Need for Urgency to Save the Ocean

    GreenBiz Oct 17, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Here are recommendations from the IPCC report on the Ocean and Cyrosphere, that examine how to curb biodiversity loss.  • What role can donors play in…

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    Innovation Through Failure and Finding Flexibility

    WASHFunders Oct 15, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • WASH innovators need to embrace the potential of failure to learn more about what is working and what is not within the sector.  • How can…

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    Documentary Shows Us What We’ve Done to the Ocean

    Fast Company Oct 13, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Zack Rago, the filmmaker of Chasing Coral, films the coral-bleaching process, documenting how corals expel algae living inside them right before they die.  • This documentary…

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    Flipping the Fishing Model on Its Head Through Collaboration

    GrantCraft

    Giving Compass’ Take: • The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation is helping grow environmental conservation efforts by encouraging information-sharing between fisheries and scientists.   • How can this type of collaboration help…

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    All You Need to Know About the Amazon Fires

    Giving Compass Oct 10, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Here are some fast facts on how the Amazon fires started and what is being done to address this severe environmental issue.  • How are you…

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