This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) are substantially publicly underfunded, and communities are usually unable to provide financial resources and operations for these institutions to sustain themselves. …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Doug Irving shares Pardee RAND Graduate School’s strategy for diversifying leaders in education in order to invest in inclusive public policy. • How does diversifying leaders…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Debra Utacia Krol, at AZ Central, describes how philanthropists are contributing to Native artists in order to sustain important cultural healing during COVID-19. • Why are…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Three years ago, I read a report stating that, out of the tens of billions of dollars in annual philanthropic giving by U.S. foundations, an estimated 2% of funding from the nation’s largest…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “It is not enough to simply utter the words, ‘Black Lives Matter,’ we demand more. So much more. Who will defend and protect Black lives? Who will present a bold…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As a Black man who has worked with or for nonprofits for most of my career, I’ve become very familiar with how nonprofit boards recruit for board diversity; by my…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Native-led nonprofit Partnership With Native Americans (PWNA) is driving progress in tackling food insecurity on reservations due to the COVID-19 pandemic. • How can donors help bolster…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • With learning pods already widely available for wealthy families, Michelle Dervan at Medium explains how they could widen already growing gaps for low-income students. • The…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Patrick Gaspard speaks with Carnegie Council about how pushing for social change means challenging the status quo with pointed questions about injustice. • How are you…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Othering & Belonging Institute analyzes the pervasive injustices of continuously reinforced re-segregation and tracking policies in schools • How do educators implicitly maintain the effects…
Giving Compass’ Take: • Dr. Monique Morris talks with The Aspen Institute about the integral role schools must play in decriminalizing Black girls, starting with policies that serve–not punish. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Othering & Belonging Institute reports on how a holistic policy approach could make immense strides towards alleviating educational inequities. • Why is it important to…