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Leadership Development Beyond Projects

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Elikem Tomety Archer & Jessica Harrington In 2017, as part of her participation in the youth leadership program Global Citizen Year , Dora—an 18-year-old from Huntington Beach, California—spent seven months in Thiadiaye, Senegal. Leadership program projects are not typically designed with the long term in mind.

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Teaching Cooperative Intelligence, for a Solidarity Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

Educating for Economic Justice Nearly a century ago, educator, organizer, and researcher George Counts began to document the intersecting challenges and crises of political, social, and economic life in the United States. Aside from these cultural and ideological factors, there are the practical benefits. Sound familiar?