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Harmony in Work & Life: Founder, Innovator in Manufacturing, Marketing on Passion For Change

Fundraising Leadership

“Having trusted relationships is how I got here today,” says Kara Demirjian Huss, vice president of T/CCI Manufacturing and recently appointed to the Illinois Workforce Innovation Board, overseeing the Unified State Plan for Illinois workforce development system. ” Manufacturing is undergoing major shifts. Borg Warner Corp.,

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How Limited Equity Co-ops Can Sustain Affordable Homeownership

NonProfit Quarterly

Additionally, millions of Americans reside in manufactured housing communities, often called mobile home parks, which do provide affordable housing. Second, education for LEC members is crucial. Additionally, many jurisdictions have extended a right to first refusal specifically to residents in manufactured housing communities.

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Defying the Odds: The Case for Investing in Organizing Workers in the South

NonProfit Quarterly

This includes organizing campaigns to move lawmakers on a wide range of community issues such as education and childcare and to make it easier for workers in the auto industry, manufacturing, meat packing, and other areas to join a union. Consider the multiracial alliances in Georgia, shepherded by Georgia STAND-UP.

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The Next Generation of Mutualism

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Hemstreet went on to work with local cooperatives, civic groups, manufacturers, nonprofits, and the local Rotary Clubthe other mutualists in her areato launch Morgantons Industrial Commons, a nonprofit economic-development project that created the Carolina Textile District and four additional community-owned organizations. million children.

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Closing the Middle Skills Gap in Postsecondary Education

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Roger Low In 2023, what education and training do Americans need, beyond high school? At the same time, to salvage the American middle class, suck toxic resentment out of our politics, and build a more equitable economy, we must reimagine higher education, workforce training, and how taxpayers fund both.

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NPOs Consistently Better Than For-Profits on Jobs

The NonProfit Times

Job losses during the recession were most pronounced in industries with relatively few nonprofits, such as construction and manufacturing. Other sectors with high shares of nonprofit employment included educational services (16.4 Nonprofit employment jumped 5.5% while employment in private-sector for-profit businesses declined 8.1

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Monitoring Inequality: The Case for Widening Access to Innovations in Diabetes Management

NonProfit Quarterly

Theyre also vital for preventionby providing detailed, real-time information to their users, CGMs serve as educational tools for patients about managing and mitigating their disease in the long-term. The democratization of HBPMs has even been good for manufacturers.