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The EPA Launches Final Strategy on Lead Mitigation

NonProfit Quarterly

Even small amounts of lead can lead to severe adverse health effects in children , including issues with learning, brain and nervous system development, hearing and speech, and arrested growth. Exposure to lead during pregnancy can lead to developmental or behavioral problems in children later on.

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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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How Investors Can Shape AI for the Benefit of Workers

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Currently, about half of teachers’ time is spent not with students but on grading, lesson planning, and curriculum development, as well as other administrative tasks. Some of these tasks could be areas where generative AI technology like Brisk Teaching could serve as a useful copilot for overburdened employees.

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Why Common Core Will Fail

Ken Goldstein

The latest in educational "fixes," promoted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the National Governors Association, and the Obama administration, the Common Core initiative was developed "to provide a clear and consistent framework to prepare our children for college and the workforce." Not so in Boyle Heights.

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Great Nonprofit Marketing Jobs: Friday Futures

Getting Attention

Assistant Program Director , International OCD Foundation (Boston, MA). Communications Associate , Rasmuson Foundation (Anchorage, AK). Community Programs Manager/Director , The Bohemian Foundation (Fort Collins, CO). Director of Communications , Christian Foundation for Children and Aging. Kansas City, KS).

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The Need for More Inclusive Leadership Narratives

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Our team at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), alongside a collective of other leadership funders and practitioners, has been grappling with how to define, support, and fund leadership in ways that remove these barriers and advance equitable, systemic change.

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[VIDEO] Measure Of Success: Creating Tools And Process To Report Impact

Bloomerang

And, as I was sharing earlier, we usually teach this in person over a period of two to three hours, so, you all are getting the, what we’ll call, the boot-camp version of “Measure of Success.” Are they wanting to fund children’s programs? Is it an evidence-based curriculum or process?