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Leveraging AI in Social Work: A Pathway to Empowering Vulnerable Populations

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

In this section, let’s explore how AI can revolutionize social work practices in three key areas: elder care, mental health support for veterans, and education for children on the autism spectrum. This tailored approach can help all children thrive in educational settings and develop the skills they need to succeed in life.

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The EPA Launches Final Strategy on Lead Mitigation

NonProfit Quarterly

One of the stated goals of that report was to “identify communities with high lead exposures and improve their health outcomes.” Even small amounts of lead can lead to severe adverse health effects in children , including issues with learning, brain and nervous system development, hearing and speech, and arrested growth.

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A Primer for Incubating Child Care Businesses

NonProfit Quarterly

Back in 2019, during a listening tour of the seven rural Maine counties that border Canada, we learned that many people—predominantly women with a passion for early childhood education—would like to start a home- or facility-based childcare but lack the business acumen and confidence to get started.

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Guest Post: Stories of Volunteer Managers, Technology, and the Pandemic

Twenty Hats

We spoke with 181 volunteer managers that work in human service organizations, governmental agencies, higher education, hospitals, zoos, and more. One theme we’re seeing over and over again is how the pandemic changed the way volunteer managers educate and train their volunteers and clients, often using Zoom or other video sharing platforms.

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Change Your Life, Career, Future: Why and How Starts Here and Now With Intentioning

Fundraising Leadership

The thing most trainings don’t teach is how you have to think differently as you ascend in your leadership journey,” Feldt says. With a curriculum that is innovative and responsive to the input of the community, Feldt says a key value to the series is the wisdom and energy of others.

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Great Nonprofit Marketing Jobs: Friday Futures

Getting Attention

Program Associate , Policy Advocacy & Organizing, Illinois Public Health Institute (Chicago, IL). Program Manager – Pathway to Leadership in Urban Schools , The New Teach Project (Philadelphia, PA). Youth Education Curriculum Manager , San Francisco Film Society (San Francisco, CA). RECENT OPPORTUNITIES.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Their organizations work at the intersections of multiple social justice issues, including voting rights, criminal justice, economic justice, education justice, environmental justice, food justice, healing justice and mental health/trauma-informed care, im/migrant rights, labor rights, LGBTQIA+ liberation, racial justice, and reproductive justice.