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    How Restricted Funding Hurts Nonprofits

    Social Venture Partners Nov 5, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Vu Le explains how restricted funding makes it difficult or impossible for nonprofits to do the work they set out to complete.  • Do you restrict…

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    Reducing the Cost and Risk of Dementia

    Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy Oct 29, 2019

    Increased longevity is perhaps one of the greatest success stories of our modern public health system. People around the globe are living longer than ever before thanks to major medical…

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    Leveraging Partnerships to Shift Systems in Kenya

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Oct 27, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Kelly Diggins covers the United Nations and SDG Partnership Platform and its discussion on universal healthcare and sustainable development in Kenya. • How can individual donors increase and promote…

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    A Look at Higher Education Philanthropy

    Wealth Management

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Bruce DeBoskey highlights a Malcolm Gladwell talk in which Gladwell says philanthropic dollars are “going to the wrong places for the wrong reasons” in higher education.…

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    Using Feedback to Improve Efforts to Protect Human Rights

    FeedbackLabs Oct 24, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Grigory Okhotin and Leonid Drabkin explain how OVD-Info uses feedback to improve their efforts to track politically-motivated prosecutions in Russia.  • How can funders support the effective implementation of…

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    Age-Forward Cities for 2030

    Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy Oct 23, 2019

    A massive shift is taking place in the makeup of the world population, and societies are already struggling to cope. By 2030, more people worldwide will be over the age…

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    Listening – and Learning from Lived Experiences

    Milken Institute Center for Strategic Philanthropy Oct 22, 2019

    Want to be the change you wish to see in the world? Deep listening is the key. The voices of those enduring a challenging situation – whether those situations are…

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    Listening – and Learning from Lived Experiences

    Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy Oct 22, 2019

    Want to be the change you wish to see in the world? Deep listening is the key. The voices of those enduring a challenging situation – whether those situations are…

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    Digging Out of Philanthropy’s Entrenched Practices

    Medium Oct 18, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Jennie Curtis writes on how her team found ways to create alignment and support better collaboration among organizations looking to advance renewable energy and address climate change. • How can you…

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    Three Ways to Make an Impact Through Data Collection

    PEAK Grantmaking Oct 16, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Here are three ways that foundations are making an impact through meaningful data collection and forward-thinking goal planning.  • As an individual donor, are you asking…

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    We Need to Stop Talking About Overhead

    Nonprofit AF Oct 15, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Vu Le argues that we need to focus on outcomes, not overhead. • Are conversations about overhead impeding your efforts to make an impact? Do you…

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    Treating Neurological Damage From Stroke

    The Rockefeller Foundation

    Giving Compass’ Take: · Dr. Melanie Walker explains that previously permanent neurological damage caused by a stroke is now reversible thanks to advances in science. · What role can philanthropy play…

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