This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The North Texas Innovation Alliance is helping to address local issues and push projects forward within the community while fostering collaboration. • How can local donors…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • More foundations are starting to create pooled-funding initiatives to build capacity for nonprofit organizations so that collaboration can increase resiliency and nonprofit effectiveness. • How can individual…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • An article by The Philanthropy Workshop encourages fast-moving, strategic action for a collaborative, effective response to coronavirus. • What are we learning from coronavirus about our…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • A Feedback Labs group discussed how funder collaboratives could become more strategic and responsive when making decisions regarding social impact work. • What are the benefits…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When it comes to public policy efforts, foundation leaders believe that collaboration is particularly important. CEP’s recently released report, Policy Influence: What Foundations are Doing and Why, finds that 80 percent…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Philanthropic and government partnerships are successfully working in California and Washington to fill resource gaps, leverage government resources, or hold governments accountable to support those in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Mike Scott reports that coronavirus is reinvigorating interest in SDG No. 17, partnerships for the goals, creating an opportunity for a collaborative future. • How can funders best…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • In an article for Smart Cities Dive, Lauren Gore encourages cooperation between public and private entities for smart city solutions to local government infrastructure. • What…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Here are three ways that philanthropists can take collective action to respond to the pandemic: Standing by charities, working with others to fund adaptation, and learning…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The author discusses how mutual aid efforts and community resilience can help individuals facing challenges due to COVID-19. • How can donors bolster community-based models to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Gladys Kai Xin Ng shares three ways that entrepreneur support organizations can work to close the gender financing ap that hurts women. • Are you doing enough…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Philanthropy is a personal demonstration of a donor’s values. Most individuals direct their charitable resources to an issue area or two that most deeply resonates with them and the changes they wish to see in…