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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. The students who graduate earn a bachelors degree in organizational leadership and change, and close to two in five graduates go on to enroll in graduate school.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

The effort resulted in a shift from a White-led nonprofit to an organization that reflects the majority people of color communities that it serves—not just in terms of staffing and leadership but also in terms of overall movement practice. 46 Education in community economics is also key. 49 There are many examples of this.