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    How a Single Nonprofit Leader Can Bring About Social Change

    Social Velocity May 29, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Nell Edgington, writing for Social Velocity, discusses five steps that nonprofit leaders can take to bring about social change in the funding ecosystem.  • How can donors…

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    How to Prepare Nonprofits for Reopening

    VolunteerMatch May 28, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Here are four ways that organizations can follow to ensure they are implementing the best practices to keep everyone safe and protect volunteers.  • How can…

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    Building Capacity for Nonprofits for Sustained Collaboration

    Stanford Social Innovation Review May 27, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • More foundations are starting to create pooled-funding initiatives to build capacity for nonprofit organizations so that collaboration can increase resiliency and nonprofit effectiveness.  • How can individual…

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    How to Make a Big Bet on Social Change

    Stanford Social Innovation Review

    Giving Compass’ Take: • William Foster, Gail Perreault, and Elise Tosun examine the “how” of making big bets in philanthropy (rather than the “what”) so that funders and foundations can…

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    How to Make Nonprofits More Accountable

    Nonprofit Quarterly

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Nonprofit Quarterly discusses the elements of effective nonprofit oversight, using the example of a service dog organization in Virginia to show how a lack of regulation…

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    Why You Should Support Your Local Arts Agency During a Crisis

    ARTS Blog May 26, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Here are 10 ways that you can support local arts agencies during the pandemic, which is causing increased furloughs, unemployment, and decreased budgets.  • Are there…

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    How the Global Pandemic is Threatening the Early Childhood Education Sector

    Medium May 26, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • The author talks with Carol Austin, executive director of First Up, who offers insight into the necessary solutions that are needed to improve early childhood education during COVID-19. …

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    How To Rapidly Scale Solutions In A Crisis

    Alliance Magazine May 25, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: · Martha Paren at Alliance Magazine offers some fundamental principles to help nonprofits rapidly scale their responses to the coronavirus crisis. · How have nonprofits stepped up during…

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    COVID-19’s Child Care Challenges and How Providers Can Help

    MDRC May 25, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Caitlin Anzelone and Emily Marano present providers with five strategies to alleviate the stress of COVID-19’s child care challenges for parents. • How might these strategies…

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    Turning Grief Into Action as We Grapple With the New Normal

    Grist May 25, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Margaret Klein Salamon explains how young people are leading the way in turning grief into action as we embrace a new normal. • Grief is an…

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    Addressing Critiques and Crises for Impactful Philanthropy

    Lilly Family School of Philanthropy May 23, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Abby Rolland shares perspectives on addressing critiques and crises to impact social change through philanthropy. • How are you addressing critiques and crises to make an…

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    Using Endowments as a Resource for Recovery

    Johnson Center May 21, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Jeff Williams explores how foundations can increase annual spending and spend down endowment assets as a means of providing recovery funds for nonprofit organizations during this…

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