This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Dan Gearino, writing for InsideClimate News, discusses the racial inequities present in the clean energy industry and compiles examples of action steps to address these inequalities. …
Giving Compass’ Take: • Jenna Nicholas, CEO of Impact Experience, discusses why impact investors need to recognize and dismantle bias in asset allocation to reframe power and garner insights from communities. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Research indicates that COVID-19 disproportionately impacts black, Latino, indigenous, and immigrant communities due to the legacy of structural racism that affects societal factors of health. • A…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Equitable Growth Policy Director Amanda Fischer talks with Mehrsa Baradaran, professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, about the persistence of the racial wealth…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Here are some key takeaways from Southern California Grantmaker’s Policy Summit which covered how philanthropy needs to protect and strengthen democratic resilience during COVID-19. • Donors…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Brentin Mock reveals how cities allocate millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money towards the legal cost of police violence as opposed to improving marginalized communities. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Emily Pontecorvo explains that hurricanes disproportionately harm communities of color, but a lack of media coverage on the subject means that the public isn’t informed. • What…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Tiffany Smith explains how policymakers and nonprofits are working to improve maternal health outcomes for Black women, who disproportionately die from pregnancy- or childbirth-related causes. • How can funders…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • At Futurity, legal experts Ron Tyler and Suzanne Luban discuss the lack of police accountability for excessive violence and how we can work toward reform. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • CityLab’s Laura Bliss details the “People’s Budget,” a movement in Los Angeles aimed at dramatically relocating police funds to public health and community services. • How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • EdSurge’s Jeffrey R. Young discusses the compounding difficulties of police brutality, protest, and pandemic during many college students’ finals week. • How might these added stressors…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Maggie Koerth and Jamiles Lartey, at The Marshall Project, talk about why we need revised police tactics at protests to avoid escalation and unnecessary violence. • How…