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A Primer for Incubating Child Care Businesses

NonProfit Quarterly

The need to develop more childcare businesses is obvious, but how to build and sustain viable childcare businesses is not. the community development financial institution where I work, lends to families and businesses throughout the state of Maine. Designing a Curriculum Childcare is, for obvious reasons, highly regulated.

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Teaching Cooperative Intelligence, for a Solidarity Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

Such, at least, is the thesis of work I’ve been involved in to create a cooperative education curriculum at the high school level in the Bronx. Not only are workforce development and university education required to sustain regional cooperative economies at scale, but this education should begin at an early age.

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Can Universities Build Community? A Conference Explores Possible Paths

NonProfit Quarterly

Central to Harkavys visionand that of most conference participantsis the idea that democracy must begin at home and its home is the neighborly community. Netter, Harkavy noted, has been operating for over 32 years, but he conceded that achievement of the broader democratic mission is still very much a work in progress.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

For instance, the Carolina Federation, a North Carolina 501(c)(4) advocacy group, centers its political and economic power- building work in nine DNA principles, specifying the core values that guide their work—including solidarity, the need for structural economic change, and a commitment to developing leaders and repairing harm.