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Thank Heaven For 11: Take The Lead Celebrates 11 Years Working Toward Mission of Equity

Fundraising Leadership

This course will teach you the specific thought processes and skills to identify and channel your inner strength and power, Feldt says. Read more in Take The Lead on 50 Women Can Change The World in Finance. We do this work and offer this course because you deserve the equal pay, positions, and power of your highest intentions.

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A Primer for Incubating Child Care Businesses

NonProfit Quarterly

As a result, four years ago, in March 2020 we started what we now call the CEI Child Care Business Lab , an incubator that teaches the specific business skills needed to open, staff, and operate a licensed quality childcare business. Designing a Curriculum Childcare is, for obvious reasons, highly regulated.

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How Investors Can Shape AI for the Benefit of Workers

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Currently, about half of teachers’ time is spent not with students but on grading, lesson planning, and curriculum development, as well as other administrative tasks. Some of these tasks could be areas where generative AI technology like Brisk Teaching could serve as a useful copilot for overburdened employees.

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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. Creating pathways for educating for economic democracy requires more than curriculum and content. Their reflections reinforced the value of what I call coherence, or integrated, learning.

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Can Universities Build Community? A Conference Explores Possible Paths

NonProfit Quarterly

The Netter Center, Harkavy noted, seeks to solve problems and improve quality of life of proximate communities, thereby benefiting the community and supporting the teaching and research missions of the university. In terms of concrete projects, conference participants offered many examples.

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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.