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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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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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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. Often, these examples involved the creation of community facilities that are university financed but community-led spacesor what Cantor called third spaces.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

Movements were not always organized this way, and this shift of movements from the self-financing movements of the past (such as labor unions in the 1930s) to the grant-dependent movement organizations of the present creates significant challenges for achieving transformative change. 46 Education in community economics is also key.