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    8 Simple Ways To Help The Birds

    TreeHugger Oct 10, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • The volume of spring migration has dropped by 14 percent in just the past decade. In the wake of this and other startling studies, Melissa Breyer at…

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    How Breaking Down Boundaries Can Solve Sanitation

    WASHfunders Oct 8, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Despite good intentions, collaboration does not always yield positive results when addressing sanitation issues. Here are some practical ways to collaborate by building and advancing existing…

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    How Bioeconomy Can Save the Amazon

    Eco-Business Oct 7, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Bioeconomy could be a potential solution to stimulate economic activity and help with Amazon conservation efforts in Brazil. • How can donors help Brazil’s leaders preserve…

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    How Water Mission’s WASH Solutions Work

    Mashable Oct 6, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Water Mission, an engineering nonprofit that builds safe WASH solutions for developing countries, shares how it measures impact. • How can other nonprofits replicate scale for…

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    How Should Water Professionals Invest in Resilience?

    The Source Magazine Oct 2, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Nick Michell interviewed water experts to understand how water professionals can best invest in resilience for improved infrastructure.  • What does resilience in a water system…

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    Three Key Findings on National and Local Water Use Patterns in the U.S.

    Brookings Oct 2, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Both urban and rural leaders in the U.S have to face challenges of water use and address how best to invest in water infrastructure that upholds…

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    Gamifying Urban Sanitation Services

    WASHfunders Oct 1, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) created a game about cleaning and managing fecal waste matter in Africa, in an attempt to help individuals understand…

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    Understanding How to Implement Sanitation Solutions Through Community Input

    psi Oct 1, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • USAID Transform WASH project, led by PSI, sought to understand how to implement sanitation solutions throughout Ethiopia by surveying communities to hear their needs. • What…

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    Eco-Ethical Fashion: Sustainable Trends to Watch

    TriplePundit Sep 29, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Here are six eco-ethical fashion trends in the industry and the many challenges that come with them.  • How are your charitable giving efforts currently supporting…

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    Environmentally Responsible Business Can Bring Lasting Wealth

    Stanford Social Innovation Review Sep 26, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • More entrepreneurs and funders are combating land degradation with restoration solutions to improve the quality of the environment. • How can donors identify and support entrepreneurs…

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    How Will We Turn the Tide for Texas’ Water?

    The Mitchell Foundation Sep 26, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Laura Huffman at The Mitchell Foundation discusses four ways and solutions to the problems that Texas is facing with their water.  • What are the drinking water infrastructure…

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    How Fungi Create Compounds That Promise New Drugs

    Futurity Sep 25, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • New research solves a nearly 50-year-old mystery of how fungi produce a large class of bioactive chemical compounds. • What other things could fungus help with?  •…

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