This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • A project-based learning curriculum in Waterford, Michigan was successful in showing that PBL curriculum helps advance students academically. • What are the other known benefits of project-based learning? • Read…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Four studies recently came up with the same correlations in which students are that are suspended do not perform as well as their peers and that suspensions are…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • FSG profiles the Staten Island Foundation, which has created an early childhood initiative with equity as a focus and a goal of solving core issues through…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On August 25, 2017, Hurricane Harvey made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane near Rockport, Texas. Hovering over the region for days, the storm dropped record amounts of rainfall, and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • This article from the Texas Tribune discusses a program in Texas that funds trauma centers with fines from driving violations, but the result has been that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Jae Maldonado created workforce development programs that help marginalized and low-income Latino families in San Francisco. • How can these types of workforce development programs sustain funding? …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Mandy Manning, who was voted Teacher of the Year in 2018, discusses her thoughts on how the education system can improve when it comes to teaching immigrants…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Foster children qualify for Medicaid health care coverage but many foster kids have complicated health conditions that require frequent and specialized care. • How can healthcare services both…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Educators offer insight as to three proactive strategies that help to address students who have been through trauma using social-emotional learning techniques. • How can teachers create more…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The author examines the role philanthropy should play in challenging inequality and provides five ways to take action. • Are there examples of philanthropists or foundations that are…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Aaron Kwitten, writing for Forbes, interviewed CMO of YMCA-USA Valerie Barker Waller, about how the organization is a driving force of inclusivity, tolerance, and connection, specifically during…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Melissa Hall Sommer, Senior Director of family economic success at Brighton Center, explains how her social service organization needed to do more work to dismantle systems that cause…