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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. To date, through this incubator, 19 new businesses licensed for a total of 390 children have opened.

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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.