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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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Can Universities Build Community? A Conference Explores Possible Paths

NonProfit Quarterly

Universities, as Baldwin has detailed , turn their research into lucrative commercial goods and patents in a range of fields, from the pharmaceutical industries and software products to health services and military defense weaponry. In terms of concrete projects, conference participants offered many examples.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

According to the Economic Policy Institute, in the 1950s and 1960s, more than 1 percent of workers participated in a union election each year. 42 To reorient the sector toward justice, activists also need to organize nonprofits from within to pursue the social justice missions that are supposed to motivate their work.