This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Lele Exum describes how she became an advocate fighting to end youth homelessness – particularly LGBTQ youth homelessness- in Minnesota. • How does youth homelessness relate…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Alexandria Lafci explains how New Story 3D prints houses for families in Haiti, Mexico, and Bolivia. • How does 3D printing increase the scalability of housing programs? What are…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · The United States faces an ongoing homelessness crisis as housing prices increase. Kira Zylstra discusses the work she does at All Home King County and explains that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Causeartist discusses the rising number of homeless individuals in the US and provides a list of different ventures addressing this issue. · How can philanthropy help…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Chris Teale reports that leaders at the National Alliance to End Homelessness’ conference discussed how to effectively address the affordable housing crisis across the country. • What…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Corianne Scally explains research on the connection between public housing and asthma that suggest HUD assistance recipients fare worse than their poor peers who did not receive public…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Fast Company discusses the affordable housing crisis and how more government intervention (funding, policies) may be needed to fix the problem. • Is more subsidized home…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Here’s what we’re reading: The Home Shows In a few weeks Seattle’s hometown heros Pearl Jam will play two concerts in the city to raise awareness and money to address…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Governing Magazine discusses the increasing homelessness crisis spreading along the West Coast and the numerous attempts to help solve the issue. As Mattie Quinn explains, a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Vox reports on a program from the Open Philanthropy Project that examined the length of prison sentences in relation to crime rates and found this: “[B]uilding and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Seattle and the surrounding region face an unprecedented homelessness crisis. Thousands of our neighbors have been pushed beyond the brink and are living in their cars, shelters, tents and park…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. BoardSource created the Stand for Your Mission Awards to recognize nonprofit boards that have established advocacy as an expectation for engaged and effective board leadership, and, by doing so, are helping their…