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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. Some focus on political education, others on business skills, and yet others on working in specific sectors, such as food. By the fall of 2021, this idea solidified into a “fellowship” model.

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The Need for More Inclusive Leadership Narratives

Stanford Social Innovation Review

We also realized that having a set curriculum assumes that individuals come to leadership programs as empty vessels—that they don’t already carry the expertise and experience they need to drive change. They also taught us how we could be more responsive to their needs and strengths, and the change they sought to create.

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The Call of Leadership Now: BIPOC Leaders in a Syndemic Era

NonProfit Quarterly

This includes strategies of community organizing, public policy and advocacy, civic engagement, cultural/arts organizing, land/food sovereignty, healing justice, and more. TLC’s theory of change requires transformation on four levels: individual , organizational , collaborative , and ecosystemic.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

39 One is the “hospice worker”—many who are employed in human service nonprofits and help people survive the ravages of capitalism (such as by operating food banks) work in this lane. 41 Mutualism harnesses the human tendency to collaborate, share, and construct institutions that last. 46 Education in community economics is also key.

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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.” Maybe I am teaching computer classes, or English as a second language classes, maybe I’m teaching those and I have 10 students.