This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · The world has made a great amount of progress in education within the last 15 years, but there is still more work to be done. The…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Arabella Advisors announces the creation of the Heartland Fund in conjunction with the Franciscan Sisters and the Wallace Global Fund. The aim is to build up communities…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Nonprofit Quarterly discusses the “rainy day” or reserve funds that many organizations have handy — but cautions that misusing such money can lead to plenty of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • On Stanford Social Innovation Review, the Freedom Fund’s Dan Vexler helps us learn the different definitions of “systems” in the context of philanthropy work. • It…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Writing for Stanford Social Innovation Review, Incourage Community Foundation’s Kelly Ryan talks about working in rural Wisconsin and investing in human capital rather than numbers on a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Writing for Forbes, The Bridgespan Group’s William Foster discusses the role philanthropy plays in driving social change, citing the organization’s $20 million investment Global Trans Initiative…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Devex reports on a new fund to scale innovative education services in Africa and the Middle East: Governments set the goals, donors make the commitments and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Taz Hussein and Mariah Collins discuss the environmental factors that contribute to health outcomes and how a pay-for-performance model may better serve patients. • Is the pay-for-performance a practical and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Medium shares insight from tech company Symph, which provides solutions to the challenges that every nonprofit faces through a web app called The Dollar Effect. It allows donors…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • This Medium piece reports on FreeWill, a digital enterprise trying to raise one trillion dollars for nonprofits by asking those using their free tools for estate…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Center for Effective Philanthropy presents a report on vital things left unsaid to high-net worth donors based on the feedback they’ve received from nonprofits over…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Center for High Impact Philanthropy analyzed methods of preventing childhood obesity and found successful approaches. This PDF contains examples of projects that made an impact…