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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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Training and Education Advisory Committee: Applications

MNA Association

Montana Nonprofit Association (MNA) is seeking interested individuals to be part of our Training and Education Advisory Committee (TEACh ), advising and informing MNAs programming, curriculum development, and conferences. Applications received by March 11 th will receive priority.

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Education for Emancipation: Building the Tools We Need

NonProfit Quarterly

This is why our two groups—the Center for Economic Democracy (CED) and the Center for Popular Economics (CPE) —have created a curriculum rooted in popular education practices intended to educate people and communities about ways to challenge the unjust economic system at its root. We call this curriculum “ Economics for Emancipation ” (E4E).

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Kids for a Cause: Getting Children Behind Nonprofit Missions

Top Nonprofits

Nonprofit organizations offer a unique way for the kids in your children’s ministry to practice life application. Getting behind a nonprofit cause can actually support their faith when they serve others and work to better their community. This acts as a ripple effect, spreading awareness and support of a nonprofit’s mission.

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Mapping the Landscape of AI-Powered Nonprofits

Stanford Social Innovation Review

We could not, however, find an overview of how nonprofits are using AI for impact. We wanted to understand exactly what was happening in the emerging “AI-powered nonprofit” space. As such, this series focuses on how AI-powered nonprofits are transforming the climate, health care, and education sectors. More on that later.

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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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Why Common Core Will Fail

Ken Goldstein

The problem wasn''t that she or her students didn''t have access to uniform, national curriculum standards. Ask the kids dropping out from either school if the lack of unified national curriculum standards was at fault. Common Core education expectations foundations innovation Nonprofit programs schools' Not so in Boyle Heights.