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A Primer for Incubating Child Care Businesses

NonProfit Quarterly

To date, through this incubator, 19 new businesses licensed for a total of 390 children have opened. It begins with identifying where there is a gap between the number of licensed childcare slots and the number of children under the age of five needing care, and then going into the community to find prospective entrepreneurs.

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Being and Building Beloved Community: The Intersection of Culture and Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

Central to the Black community, it had amusements for adults and children alongside an auditorium where notable figures like Booker T. Through his children, his culture shaping legacy extended into politics. In the 20th century, Atlanta emerged as a hub of Black entrepreneurship and education. People like writer Ida B.

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A Modern Nonprofit Podcast: The Elephant in the Room

The Charity CFO

This sparked the idea of developing Kiki and Tembo (along with many other friends), which are stuffed animals that help create funds and bring awareness to children at a young age, the importance of elephant safety. Kristina gets real in the interview about the realities of entrepreneurship. This is not the case for Kristina.

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Ending Persistent Poverty in Rural America: The Role of CDFIs

NonProfit Quarterly

Here are a few vignettes of how this works: Supporting Entrepreneurship : Back in 2018, a nurse practitioner with over a decade’s experience opened an urgent care facility in her hometown of Clarksdale, MS. Regions Bank donated its branch facility to HOPE Credit Union and provided startup capital for branch operations.

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How Radical Trust Creates Long-Term Resilience

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In Cape Town, there was a modern apartment, a car, and a job in high-end finance. A majority of households had lost a child to diarrhea and one in nine households had lost three or more children to this illness of bad water and poor sanitation. ” The worlds could not have been further apart. How did that change happen?

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¡Adelante! A Latinx Community Organizes to Generate Community Wealth

NonProfit Quarterly

Our children and their families suffer the impact of generational trauma just as much as their beneficiaries do. To operationalize this vision, Adelante provides technical assistance and limited financing both to startups as well as existing businesses, with a principal focus on supporting Latina entrepreneurs.

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No Lie: Gabrielle Union on How Entrepreneurs Can Create Success

Fundraising Leadership

2021), plus the children's books, Welcome to the Party (2020) and Shady Baby (2021). “I To address these challenges, Take The Lead will launch two cohorts of 50 Women Can Change The World in Entrepreneurship in September 2023. We are grateful to AZ Congressman Rep. We are now creating exactly the kind of art we dreamed of in films.