Half high-tech benefactor, half philanthropist, Desh Deshpande works to connect “research and relevance,” as he puts it. On the technology side, his Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT links “thinkers…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • William Foster highlights the work of three organizations — Atlantic Philanthropies, the Open Society Foundations, and the Ford Foundation — to help deliver positive change in South…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • MDRC describes several current projects — mostly aimed at low-income and at-risk young people — through their Center for Data Insights, seeking to improve programs through…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • In this Northern California Grantmakers post, a board member from the Knight Foundation discusses the housing crisis in Silicon Valley and argues that tech companies have…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • In this Medium post, the authors (female leaders in the nonprofit space) discuss the challenges that many organizations face when a steadfast adherence to a mission…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • In this book excerpt, Stanford Social Innovation Review examines what it means to have strategic focus in the nonprofit sector — a commitment to doing what it…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • Stanford Social Innovation Review makes the argument that building better relationships between funders and grantees is a vital part of “pay-what-it-takes” philanthropy. • What are we…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • This post from The Bridgespan Group discusses one community initiative in Milwaukee to reduce the teen birth rate, highlighting a report that examines what works when…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • FSG explores gender equity as it relates to impact investment, giving advice for businesses that want to contribute to this area: Data, partnerships and embracing complexity…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • Harvard Business Review takes a look at the landscape of philanthropy and suggests that making significant progress will require more risk. • What are we doing…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • Nonprofit Quarterly profiles the NoVo Foundation and its Radical Hope Fund, which will give grants to big ideas intended to transform society. • Listening to constituents…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • In this Medium post, Tipping Point Senior Director Jamie Austin discusses how nonprofits fighting poverty need better data on sustainable solutions. Short-term fixes won’t cut it.…