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A Primer for Incubating Child Care Businesses

NonProfit Quarterly

The need to develop more childcare businesses is obvious, but how to build and sustain viable childcare businesses is not. the community development financial institution where I work, lends to families and businesses throughout the state of Maine. Designing a Curriculum Childcare is, for obvious reasons, highly regulated.

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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.” 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.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

We know there’s a deep hunger in movements for an economy that people collectively own and democratically manage. The unions that emerged during this time were the major institutions that shaped the struggle for economic equality by pressuring corporations and the government for better wages and social welfare.