This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Sarah Sax explains how a lack of diversity in a geoengineering project led to a failure that could have been avoided if more perspectives were included. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Asher Ben Arieh at Forbes discusses ways to work with and become relevant to a multicultural society, no matter the goal of your nonprofit organization. • What…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the Small Business Administration could have better supported HBCUs in funding programs and advancing entrepreneurship. • How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Fay Twersky, vice president at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, recently launched The Listening Post, a monthly note dedicated to lifting up exceptional ideas, voices, and questions that can help all…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When residents in Ferguson, MO, and across the country, were rising up against police violence, systemic racism, and economic injustice in 2014, grassroots organizers put pressure on donors to fund…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Ananya Garg at YES! Magazine reports on new teaching methods that focus on building up students from all backgrounds and cultures and undoing generations of discrimination and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Amir Khafagy discusses the gentrification and exotification of Baltimore’s Chinatown to the exclusion of the Ethiopian community currently living there. • How can cities tackle gentrification and ensure…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Dan Cardinali writes that the United States can restore the trust that allows civil society to flourish by emphasizing the values that have long bound us…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Daniele Selby and Olivia Kestin discuss the photography of David Goldblatt, who recorded the day-to-day life of South Africans under apartheid. • How do projects like this inform contemporaries and historians?…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Grover J. Whitehurst, Richard V. Reeves, Nathan Joo, and Edward Rodrigue unpack the lack of progress that has been in integrating American schools since the Brown v. Board of Education…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, The Network for the Development of Children of African Descent (NdCAD) is drawing on the African heritage of local families to help boost…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Criminal justice researchers have found that there is still a racial disparity in prison sentences and time served behind bars between black and white individuals. •…