This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Katey Lauer and Stephen Smith discuss how The West Virginia Can’t Wait movement is using the gubernatorial elections as a platform to raise up new leaders for the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Jeanine Becker and David B. Smith discuss the importance of cross-sector collaboration — leaders from the private and public sector aligning their efforts to solve a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors examines the practice of collaborative philanthropy and how it’s able to increase impact, while managing risk. • What partners could you engage with…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Anne Kazimirsk informs readers of the impact of informed empathy on building stronger giving foundations. • How can informed empathy create a deeper, more authentic giving…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Center for High Impact Philanthropy provides guidance for donors on improving child survival rates. • The long-term sustainability of child health programs requires investments in areas…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Mary Beech explores the concept of external validity: When organizations examine other organizations’ successes as guidance for programs. • How strong are the measurement tools we…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The philanthropic sector is stuck in old paradigms, and several common, critical issues are preventing philanthropy from making real and sustainable progress. Philanthropy is uniquely positioned to lift up disenfranchised…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Patsy Carter and Andrea Blanch explain how the Missouri Model uses the trauma lens to inform systems change. • How could this model be used in your…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • In this excerpt from Leading Systems Change, Heather McLeod Grant and Adene Sacks share insights into effectively building supports to sustain networks. • These lessons are based…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Children and Nature Network highlights the importance of expanding access to environmental education programs to underserved youth and offers insight as to how to increase inclusion efforts across…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In order to stay relevant, focus on what matters, and do no harm, funders need to proactively and regularly seek candid feedback from the people they’re engaging most closely with…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Funders are responding on many levels to many concerns. As always, some funders continue to seek innovative solutions to age-old problems, and are looking to place “big bets” in ways…