This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Earlier in September, Equal Measures 2030 (EM2030) launched a new SDG gender monitoring tool called the SDG Gender Index to improve efforts on gathering gender data. • SDG experts…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is on a mission to enroll more women as cancer researchers and work hard to fund women in science to get…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Shipra Deo, writing for News Deeply, interviewed rural Indian women to hear their stories of courage in overcoming gender norms and cultural practices that hurt them. • How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Women healthcare volunteers in countries such as Afghanistan, Nepal, and Ethiopia are undervalued even though they provide useful and fundamental health care for people in their communities. …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • In an effort to address sanitation challenges, the city of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania is beginning to draw on the skills of women in engineering, overcoming…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • This Forbes post examines the difficulties many women-led venture capital funds have raising money and urges impact investors to pay more attention to them. • Want…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Female genital schistosomiasis, also known as snail fever, is a neglected tropical disease that has infected almost 56 million women across sub-Saharan Africa, as Global Citizen reports. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Nazeem Muhajarine and Daphne McRae explain how their research revealed that marginalized, poor women benefitted the most from the care of midwives. • How can philanthropists help to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Stanford historian Londa Schiebinger discusses how more gender diversity in STEM will produce better results in STEM research. • How can philanthropists fund diversity initiatives for research institutes?…
Giving Compass’ Take: • A public health organization called Swasti, helped a village in Karnataka, India, to get access to clean water by building a water filtration system in the community and teaching…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • As Fast Company reports, the Obama Foundation has partnered with GoFundMe to act as a coordinator for donors to support organizations empowering young girls through education. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Dulce explores how climate change and sea level rise will impact a mother and daughter who are supported by a mangrove forest in Colombia. • How…