This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Grace Leong examines China’s Belt and Road Initiative, a regional infrastructure project that hopes to bring economic prosperity from Pakistan to China and other areas along…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · In a goal to reach 100 million euros for a new impact fund, Reuters reports that Sweden’s Norrsken Foundation has raised roughly 61 million euros so far. …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · The author evaluates the progress and advancements philanthropy has made in the past decade and what is to come in the future. · How has philanthropy…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Mareesa Nicosia touches on the rise of public space philanthropy and provides some of the most notable public-private partnerships we can loo forward to in the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We have known for a long time that low-income families are powerful political actors regardless of election cycles. That’s why since 2012, Marguerite Casey Foundation (MCF) has invested more than…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Good things happen when funders shift power to communities. It’s “regenerative.” We “actually get outcomes that work” and “build a groundswell for change.” But it’s hard to “give up power…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Steven Moore provides a few helpful tips for investing in an organization more holistically. · Why is it important to invest in a nonprofit in addition…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Allison Lee Pillinger Choi discusses the decline in civic education across the United States and the nonprofit Civic Spirit’s efforts to revive civic education in New York…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Christina Ameln touches on the different meanings of impact and how organizations can maximize their efforts by defining their own mission and measuring their impact. · How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · This interview with Carla Ganiel touches on the Hewlett Foundation’s new research into how funders gather and use their feedback from beneficiaries. · How can funders use beneficiary…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Sue Merrilees is a senior advisor at the Science Philanthropy Alliance. This is the second of a two-part blog. Read part one. When we left Ross Brown at the end…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Nearly forty years ago Bill Drayton asked himself a world-changing question: What would it look like if we had many more “social entrepreneurs” – those relatively rare individuals with new…