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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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Two Girls, A Little Boat, And 3 Big Lessons About Power

Fundraising Leadership

I’m a big fan of walking meetings, and we had a purpose for this one: to talk about partnering to make the new WeRule mentoring app available to Take The Lead participants. A retired journalist, she aimed to teach me to write with precision and parsimony. I’m still working on it. Together, We Lead.

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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. What do you want for your kids?

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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.