This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Stanford Social Innovation Review reports on an education nonprofit that needed to find better ways to use data in order to increase their efficacy. • This…
Giving Compass’ Take: • Leslie Crutchfield shares her research about social movements and insights on why some fail and others succeed. • How can philanthropy use this information to more effectively support movements? •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Many individuals who are working in the nonprofit or philanthropy industry are trying to understand if the increased rate of civic engagement will turn into a long-lasting…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Next Billion discusses how to give smallholder farmers access to more capital, along with agriculture innovations, in order to break the cycle of poverty. • What…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Writing for The Bridgespan Group, Citi Performing Arts’ Sue Dahling Sullivan discusses how there needs to be more creativity and innovation at the executive level in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Beth Kanter explores the concept of “fire drill culture” in nonprofits, and how always being in crisis mode can drag everyone down. • As Kanter writes,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Accelerating Social Transformation curator Akhtar Badshah discusses how philanthropy should stop boosting a few massive organizations (whales) and instead thinking about supporting smaller programs that are sustainable (salmon).…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • In solidarity with the Families Belong Together rallies, Vu Le tells the story of his family emigrating from Vietnam and the perspective he had as a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The author discusses how immigrant scientists from India can help their home country by speaking at conferences whenever they visit because sharing knowledge is an important…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Gates Foundation initiative to improve teacher effectiveness did not meet expectations to help both teachers and students according to a new report from RAND. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Learning Accelerator conducted research to understand the challenges facing leaders scaling blended and personalized learning and found seven essential questions leaders must answer in order to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Over 2,000 migrant children have been separated from their families at the southern U.S. border within the past few weeks due to strict immigration enforcement. Here,…