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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. Another examplethis one involving the government rather than the university per seillustrates how different partners, even when aligned, may have very different expectations.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

The federal government and its welfare state programs—often known as the New Deal, and including federal programs and reforms such as Social Security and the Works Progress Administration, were forged in the world-historical political events of the first half of the 20th century and the rise of a powerful labor movement.