This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Elaine Katz, Senior VP of Grants and Communications at the Kessler Foundation, discusses collaborative funding as an increasingly popular and practical option for funders. • How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Marc Gunther discusses how small grants are useful for grassroots change in human rights and social justice movements. • How do you decide when a small…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Bruce DeBoskey highlights the importance of precise mission statements, which can clarify decision-making on the funder side and provide valuable information to nonprofits. • How targeted…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Public policy work in one’s own country differs fundamentally from public policy work abroad. A U.S. foundation working on domestic public policy has a reasonably complete understanding of the political…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • BoardSource discusses three must-have components for organizations that are looking to make a big impact, and they include stocking the board with members who have strong…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The author discusses a study that shows how nonfit board diversity is not a priority for many organizations and furthermore, many boards are not doing enough to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • David Campbell evaluates the negative side of using a business mindset in philanthropy. While businessmen and women making enormous charitable donations is undeniably positive in many…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Helicon Collaborative examines why funders do not provide equitable funding for cultural philanthropy and instead reinforce existing hierarchies. • What are some ways that donors can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As India and the world continue to confront the COVID-19 pandemic over the next weeks and months, everyone has a role to play—government at all levels, civil society, philanthropies, multinational…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Deanna Van Buren and F. Javier Torres-Campos provide a bigger roadmap to coming up with solutions for mass decarceration during the COVID-19 pandemic. • Are you ready…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Finally, we are having the difficult, candid conversations about racism in America, but why is murder the forcing function? The unjust killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Alicia Seiger shares important lessons from COVID-19 that can be applied to climate change in order to avert global disaster. • We have the capacity to…