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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. Creating pathways for educating for economic democracy requires more than curriculum and content. Their reflections reinforced the value of what I call coherence, or integrated, learning.

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Education for Emancipation: Building the Tools We Need

NonProfit Quarterly

This is why our two groups—the Center for Economic Democracy (CED) and the Center for Popular Economics (CPE) —have created a curriculum rooted in popular education practices intended to educate people and communities about ways to challenge the unjust economic system at its root. We call this curriculum “ Economics for Emancipation ” (E4E).

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Build Economic Justice for the Future by Learning from the Past

NonProfit Quarterly

Sometimes our educational institutions create processes and curriculums that teach our children and our people to be complacent in the system that we are presented with. One, there has to be a sense of a common threat that creates coalitions, that feels much bigger than one person or one community that brings you together.

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The EPA Launches Final Strategy on Lead Mitigation

NonProfit Quarterly

Working in tandem with over 200 tribal partners, the EPA designed a curriculum called Lead Awareness in Indian Country: Keeping our Children Healthy! The program, according to the EPA, “creates a starting point to hold informed conversations within communities to teach parents and caregivers about lead.

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Warnings of an “Unparalleled” Assault on Higher Education

NonProfit Quarterly

Act, banning the teaching in public schools of a wide swath of racial or racially informed curricula. Last year, Gov. DeSantis signed a bill, popularly known as the Stop Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees (W.O.K.E.) This includes any content that threatened to make students feel “guilty” for past discrimination by their race. “I

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Newsletter: Who is Your Perfect Partnership Prospect? ; 4 Creative Cause Marketing Activations ; Is Trust the Future of Giving?

Selfish Giving

Sewing is a key component of the 4-H curriculum. “A A lot of people associate 4-H with agriculture and the raising and showing of animals, but they also teach sewing,” my contact at JOANN explained. They are training tomorrow’s crafters and JOANN is the leader in sewing and fabrics.” ??

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A Primer for Incubating Child Care Businesses

NonProfit Quarterly

As a result, four years ago, in March 2020 we started what we now call the CEI Child Care Business Lab , an incubator that teaches the specific business skills needed to open, staff, and operate a licensed quality childcare business. Designing a Curriculum Childcare is, for obvious reasons, highly regulated.