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Tackling Eco-Anxiety Through Experiential Education

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Learn, Test, Create Over the past several years, I’ve had the unique opportunity as a young woman to become an entrepreneurial changemaker within post-secondary education, piloting programs and building a variety of academic curriculums for unique student populations.

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Boys & Girls Clubs of the Valley Increases Efficiency with VolunteerHub

The Volunteer Hub

Listen to the full audio recording VolunteerHub is helping Boys & Girls Clubs of the Valley recruit, engage, and manage volunteers. Donna: Last year we recruited a little over 1000 volunteers and this year I anticipate having 1300 or so volunteers. This is significant because 46% of our members are below the poverty level.

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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. Recruiting a cohort is tricky.

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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.