This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • As Governing explains, when it comes to the overall condition of an area, a happiness index provides information leaders need to form public policy and measure…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The opioid crisis affects the rural community in a myriad of ways and philanthropists and funders do not know exactly where and how to help. • Should philanthropists…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors researched how to support young low-income college students to expand their opportunities for career development after graduating. • One key finding from their research was post-graduation employment…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • At The 74, Derrell Bradford discusses the segregation in America’s schools and how reform opponents use it as an excuse for underperforming schools, even though the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Nora OBrien-Suric shares her positive experiences working as a healthcare provider alongside community-based service organizations and invites philanthropists to rise to the challenge of funding these impactful organizations. …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Huffington Post reports on how as a nation we are unsure as to how to drive policies to combat hunger crisis and our many individuals argue…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • L Michelle explains that innovation in philanthropy can come in the form of partnerships between different stakeholders in the social sector. For example, providing development organizations with…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Devex reports on how whistleblowers within the United Nations have helped expose abuses of power, sexual exploitation and fraud, but that protections for those people who…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Norwegian Refugee Council created a list of the most neglected displacement crises in the world, all of which are in Africa. • Why haven’t these crises…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The author suggests that ‘new philanthropy’ is asking more from us than what we are providing now. They are calling out philanthropists that lack commitment to causes…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over the past weeks, over 2,000 minors were separated from their parents/guardians at the southern border of the United States. Disturbed by the images and reports of children separated from…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Humanitarian Peter John Dalglish is facing pedophile charges in Nepal, highlighting the inability of the country to oversee the NGO sector. • How can philanthropists encourage oversight to…