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February 2020
Dana Schmidt / The Puggle / March 4, 2020
February is the month of love. At least that’s what a whole bunch of retail marketers want us to believe. We don’t have anything to sell, but we are orienting this month’s Puggle around the theme of love…as it relates to girls’ education. The case for teaching love — or at least teaching socioemotional learning […]
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Dana Schmidt / The Puggle / February 12, 2020
Happy 2020! To kick off the year, we’re excited to share a recent episode of the Do One Better Podcast, in which host Alberto Lidji interviews Echidna Giving founders Craig Silverstein and Mary Obelnicki. Listen to the impetus behind founding Echidna Giving — including Craig’s theory of change, which, broadly characterized, “starts with girls’ education […]
Read MoreOur Grantees Spoke and Here’s What We Learned
Dana Schmidt / Insights / January 24, 2020
At the end of 2019 we asked Echidna Giving grantees for feedback on how we are doing. In the spirit of transparency, we would like to share what we learned and summarize how we plan to move forward.
Read MoreDecember 2019
Dana Schmidt / The Puggle / December 18, 2019
It’s hard to believe it, but the futuristic-sounding year of 2020 is just two weeks away! Before we race into the future, our last Puggle of 2019 provides an opportunity to reflect on three lessons from the past year. These are drawn from work our grantees are doing to: (1) promote gender equality in early […]
Read MoreOctober 2019
Dana Schmidt / The Puggle / November 18, 2019
In this October Puggle, we’re excited to share three newsworthy items from the world of Echidna Giving grantees that we think are significant for the broader field of girls’ education. First, the development community celebrated as three of its own—Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee, and Michael Kremer—won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their […]
Read MoreSeptember 2019
Dana Schmidt / The Puggle / October 9, 2019
News from Aug and Sept on everything from why girls’ education doesn’t lead to better labor market outcomes to the tension between getting school systems to teach basic skills vs. getting them to teach the broader range of skills we know are important and whether the education aid architecture is broken.
Read MoreJuly 2019
Dana Schmidt / The Puggle / July 31, 2019
July was a hot month—literally, with record-breaking heat in many parts of the globe, and figuratively, in girls’ education. The G7 and UNESCO hosted the Paris International Conference on Innovating for girls’ and women’s empowerment through education, where UNESCO launched an Atlas of Girls’ and Women’s Right to Education and France Calls on G-7 to […]
Read MoreJune 2019
Dana Schmidt / The Puggle / July 9, 2019
In honor of Father’s Day, this June edition of the Puggle features the latest news and research about the importance of fathers in girls’ education.
Read MoreMay 2019
Dana Schmidt / The Puggle / June 13, 2019
Over the course of May one of Echidna Giving’s advisors, Ruth Levine, wrote a series of six reflections as she approached the end of her eight-year tenure at the Hewlett Foundation. In Strength in numbers: Taking a field-level view and All happy grantees are alike: They focus on ideas, interactions, and important details, Ruth peels […]
Read MoreApril 2019
Dana Schmidt / The Puggle / May 13, 2019
In April the full Echidna Giving team attended the Comparative and International Education Society. We enjoyed welcoming thousands of our friends working on international education to our home city of San Francisco. Below are six of our lasting impressions from CIES: 1 | Researchers are unpacking the depth and nuance around life skills and social […]
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