This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • In this story from Fast Company, author Ben Paynter discusses how the richest people in the world are deterred from placing “big bets” on causes because…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Sherece Y. West-Scantlebury shares two biases that keep foundations and funders from aligning their purpose and investments. • What is holding you back from aligning your mission…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the darkest days of apartheid South Africa in the mid 1970s, an activist parish priest named Desmond Tutu came to the Ford Foundation and made an extraordinary argument. He…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Catalist network was created to support the creation, development and expansion of women’s collective giving. The collective giving movement encompasses a wide variety of organizations in which individuals pool their…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Ford Foundation’s Kathy Reich discusses the organization’s BUILD initiative, which aims to support nonprofits who are making an impact on inequality issues. • One of the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Kate Stringer at The 74 explains how expeditionary learning connects students with their communities using project-based instruction. • How can expeditionary learning help students with skills sets…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It costs about $2 to fully protect a child against measles and rubella, making the vaccine one of the best buys in global public health. Yet, in low-income countries measles…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Housing first is the gold standard in homelessness intervention. But why? Sharon McDonald explains why anything less than housing first is a disservice to homeless individuals and to the cause of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Dennis Jaffe, writing for Forbes, explores the core ideas behind the approach of Jeff and Tricia Raikes (founders of the Raikes Foundation) and what sets their philanthropy…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Philanthropy is at an inflection point. Our sector, long allergic to even passing mentions of racial inequality, appears to be in the middle of a reckoning on racial justice. Whether…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Since you’re at GivingCompass, you’re more than likely familiar with the Raikes Foundation. And you might even know a little something about Tricia and Jeff Raikes’s drive to help institutions…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • This Fast Company article explores how many nonprofits struggle to access the resources they need to deliver on the promise of their programs. • How can…