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A Primer for Incubating Child Care Businesses

NonProfit Quarterly

the community development financial institution where I work, lends to families and businesses throughout the state of Maine. Below, we share successes, challenges, and lessons learned to encourage others, especially CDFIs, to consider developing similar programs in their communities. Coastal Enterprises, Inc.,

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Teaching Cooperative Intelligence, for a Solidarity Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

This question was front of mind when, in February 2020, right before the COVID lockdown began, the Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative , co-hosted an “innovation encuentro.” But to build cooperative intelligence, cooperative education needs to start at a much earlier age. In Dare the School Build a New Social Order? ,

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

“RULER OF THE EARTH” BY YUET-LAM TSANG Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” How do social movements come to make the language of economic systems change their own? Nonprofits often play quasi-governmental roles.