This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Michael Igoe recounts how the Surgo Foundation identified a gap in maternal care caused not by lack of training, but by a healthcare system that misidentified and rewarded…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Stanford Social Innovation Review examines lessons learned from the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge about the power of collaboration — how rallying around a single, landmark event…
Giving Compass’ Take: • In this podcast from The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Georgia Levenson Keohane — author of “Capital and the Common Good” — advocates for the use of time-tested financial…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Writing for GuideStar, Nonprofit Finance Fund CEO Antony Bugg-Levine discusses the importance of outcomes in nonprofit work and why it’s important to reorient around them, cutting through the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Volunteering can help you build a career in various ways. Volunteering gives you experience, it helps with networking and connection building, and it will give you a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Disasters bring out the best in people. Donations to charities surge as television coverage increases. Yet we know from experience that both coordination and effective spending of donor dollars is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over the past weeks, over 2,000 minors were separated from their parents/guardians at the southern border of the United States. Disturbed by the images and reports of children separated from…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The National Council of Nonprofits gives us an overview of “collective impact” — working together, sharing info and resources to solve a complex problem — and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Center for Effective Philanthropy takes a deep dive into what transparency for a foundation really means and how it’s done well, based on a survey…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Nonprofit Quarterly reports on the scarcity of unrestricted, multi-year grants and funding reserves, citing examples from MIT and Massachusetts Eye and Ear on how they could make…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Kris Putnam-Walkerly discusses how foundations may be digging too deep into the details of governance rather than focusing on the broader picture. • The main takeaway: Always…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Logic suggests that charity would do the most good when treated like an investment—looking for the biggest impact per dollar—but that’s generally not how donors behave.…