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A Primer for Incubating Child Care Businesses

NonProfit Quarterly

Back in 2019, during a listening tour of the seven rural Maine counties that border Canada, we learned that many people—predominantly women with a passion for early childhood education—would like to start a home- or facility-based childcare but lack the business acumen and confidence to get started.

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3 Strategies to Find New Nonprofit Supporters Online

Ann Green

However, there is power in embracing entrepreneurship and taking a risk on innovative strategies to find new supporters online. Educational Information: From the donation payout process to whether Facebook fundraising has fees — it doesn’t— your supporters will likely have many questions about how social fundraising works.

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Being and Building Beloved Community: The Intersection of Culture and Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

Central to the Black community, it had amusements for adults and children alongside an auditorium where notable figures like Booker T. Through his children, his culture shaping legacy extended into politics. In the 20th century, Atlanta emerged as a hub of Black entrepreneurship and education. People like writer Ida B.

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Building Power in Rural and Tribal Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Multiple generations of residents in Del Norte County have now suffered from widespread childhood obesity, low educational achievement, high teen drinking rates, poor health outcomes, and other social problems linked to high rates of trauma, unemployment, and poverty. Efforts to make change could be seen by many as threatening.

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One Organization’s Quest for Good

NonProfit Hub

While there, McDonald noticed that many classrooms had only a stack of books to share between hundreds of children. “It This was McDonald’s solution to the lack of educational resources. Although she began as a volunteer, Stephans decided to take the leap and make her passion for social entrepreneurship a full-time job.

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How Radical Trust Creates Long-Term Resilience

Stanford Social Innovation Review

” In particular, it was seeing families lose children to preventable diseases which spurred the founding of the Bulungula Incubator (BI) in 2007—not as an intervention by Réjane into the community, but to act as a catalyst for the community itself to enact and own solutions to a range of issues. How did that change happen?

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Making The Best of It All: Founder, CEO, Entrepreneur On Leading With Energy, Intention

Fundraising Leadership

It can also give you the energy you need to find and fulfill your entrepreneurship goals and “do it without being exhausted,” says Amy Leigh Looper, founder and CEO of Leading Motherhood. “ careersuccess #intentioning ” After her children were born, Looper says, “I believed the myth that I had to step out of leadership.”

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