This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · The Migration Policy Institute reports on the growing number of immigrants seeking asylum in the U.S. due to violence and political instability in the Northern Triangle. · How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Housing Choice Voucher Mobility Demonstration Act of 2018 would help bring a voucher system to families in low-income areas and would give HUD the opportunity to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Seattle Children’s Hospital details three innovative programs that they started in order to address mental health care for young people. These include an access mental health line…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The ‘shadow education system’ refers to the cultural events, enriching field trips, or extra art camps/activities that more affluent children get to experience, while children from lower…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Sunlight Foundation reports on how the city of Baton Rouge, LA, has been giving its residents access to the data they collect, bringing the community into…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Guardian reports on a town in Belgium called Geel, where residents have been opening up their homes to the mentally ill for hundreds of years,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg will be teaming up to help provide new teaching methods for children who have trouble learning.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Citizens of the World Charter School network in Los Angeles cracked the code for figuring out how to diversify their schools by design and know how…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Education Writers Association annual seminar culminated in suggestions for ways that higher education institutions can do more to focus and advance the social mobility of their…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Writing for Africa’s Mail & Guardian, Ford Foundation’s Nicolette Naylor discusses the need for tackling issues of sexual harassment, gender inequity and prejudices within the social sector.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Obama’s Education Department took significant steps to protect students and taxpayers from fraud by for-profit colleges, which Betsey DeVos has walked back. • How can philanthropists…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Bendle Family Health Services provides free healthcare to students in the Bendle School District helping to improve their health outcomes. • How can philanthropy best scale free healthcare…