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Can Labor Save Higher Education as a Public Good?

NonProfit Quarterly

They include a spate of police actions on campuses , anti-DEI and anti-tenure legislation, academic freedom lawsuits , weaponization of accreditation , and political tests for everything from curriculum to top institutional leadership. Colleges and universities depend critically on the labor power of all who work in them.

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

Fundraising Leadership

Eleven years ago, Gloria Feldt and Amy Litzenberger co-founded the organization with the bold mission of society reaching leadership gender parity across all sectors by 2025this year. For the past 11 years, Take The Lead has been working towards achieving gender and racial equity in leadership across all sectors and industries.

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The Need for More Inclusive Leadership Narratives

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Deborah Bae & Kiernan Doherty The dominant narrative around leadership in many areas of the world centers individualism over solidarity. It suggests that there is one kind of leadership and that a single person—one who intervenes to solve a problem or envision a bold new reality—embodies it.

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Leveraging AI in Social Work: A Pathway to Empowering Vulnerable Populations

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

This proactive, data-driven approach can significantly improve the quality of life for elderly individuals and reduce the burden on healthcare systems. Additionally, social work schools should do more to incorporate emerging technology in the social work curriculum to equip students with the needed tools to thrive in tech spaces.

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I Owe You an Update

Fundraising Leadership

We’ve been heads down doing the work — delivering training, creating valuable leadership content, and planning exciting new programs. We must overcome setbacks to the intersectional leadership parity we had been on a path to achieving by our target year of 2025. You make this essential work for gender parity possible.

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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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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.