This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Feedback Labs details a platform called Makerble, which aims to accelerate social change by making it easier for nonprofits to track, measure, and report on their impact.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. People have framed the conversation about measurement in the social sector in terms of monitoring and evaluation for decades. They shorthand it as “M and E” and serve it up…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • This eJewish Philanthropy post lists observations about the “overhead myth” in philanthropy and why donors need to look at it more as funding “infrastructure.” • That…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Amanda LaFleur shows us that people can benefit from having strong networks of support when coping with Postpartum Depression or Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder. • Whether you’re involved in women’s…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • In Patrick Sharkey’s book, Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence, he examines the power of local community…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Urban Institute discusses a new measurement of student poverty, the challenges it has revealed, and why states need to improve this system to obtain accurate information…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Fast Company details an interview with Ford Foundation’s Darren Walker and Apple’s Lisa Jackson about the do’s and don’ts of measuring impact and how we can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take • As Vu Le at Nonprofit AF writes, the claim of funding scarcity allows for complacency when nonprofits address societal problems. He wants us to stop saying, “There’s…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · This Associations Now post discusses a new study that shows how nonprofit leaders try to sweep programs that don’t work under the rug. But, as the author…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Dan Clement at The Globe and Mail discusses the changes occurring in the nonprofit sector with technological advancements and the future of philanthropy in a hyper-connected…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. How many of us have read multiple reports and articles that encourage foundations to provide more unrestricted and multiyear grants? And how often are we reminded that the shift away…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · According to Jerica Deck at Global Citizen, Michael Bloomberg has donated $1.8 billion, the largest donation ever noted for US schools, to help low-income students attend college.…