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Unlocking the Value of Circles

NonProfit Quarterly

Experts often overcomplicate lectures with jargon and references that may not be culturally relevant to the people they are trying to teach. Many communities fail, not because members have lost interest, but simply because nobody has the energy and time to take care of logistics and hold the space for the inquiry.

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Bringing Climate into the Classroom: New Hampshire Students Push for Increased Climate Literacy

NonProfit Quarterly

1 350NH was first launched in 2012 as a grassroots movement to fight climate change and support renewable energy in the Granite State. 3 The movement’s primary goal has been to attack climate change by growing grassroots support in New Hampshire for renewable energy while fighting the expansion of fossil fuels.

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Mapping the Landscape of AI-Powered Nonprofits

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Learning Equality is a global education nonprofit that aligns large libraries of education content to a given country’s curriculum standards. Khanmigo , Khan Academy’s free, AI-powered teaching assistant, aims to offer subject matter experts to all students. In other words: helping the helpers.

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Tackling Eco-Anxiety Through Experiential Education

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Learn, Test, Create Over the past several years, I’ve had the unique opportunity as a young woman to become an entrepreneurial changemaker within post-secondary education, piloting programs and building a variety of academic curriculums for unique student populations.

Education 131
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[VIDEO] Power Of Community In Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

I love the energy that you bring to these and we have the energy in the chat box too, so that brings a smile to my face as well. . I could practically teaching this class. They had to deal with their own students and their own curriculum. Julie, how’s it going? You doing okay? Julie: I am great. I love it.

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Navigating Climate Justice: Empowering BIPOC Youth with Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing

NonProfit Quarterly

12 GHGs such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide are naturally occurring gases that absorb energy from the sun and trap heat inside the atmosphere reflected from the earth’s surface. According to NASA, the average surface temperature of Earth “was about 2.45 degrees Fahrenheit (or about 1.36 degrees Fahrenheit (1.30

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

Can this movement energy coalesce into a cohesive vision? 4 We see, too, movement energy in the organizing at Amazon, at the over 200 Starbucks branches that have unionized, in the new vigor behind the pursuit of worker cooperatives and community land trusts. Can this movement energy coalesce into a cohesive vision?