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The EPA Launches Final Strategy on Lead Mitigation

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Jon Tyson on unpsplash.com In 2022, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its final strategy to reduce lead exposure. Working in tandem with over 200 tribal partners, the EPA designed a curriculum called Lead Awareness in Indian Country: Keeping our Children Healthy! which is the basis for the new sessions.

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Reconnecting Economics Education with Today’s Global Realities

NonProfit Quarterly

He said, [Our] failure to facilitate a pluralism of approaches in teaching economics is a deprivation of basic students’ rights, indeed citizen rights leading…to a narrow, blinkered, and distorted education. During his remarks, Powell referred to economics as “the science of public policy.”

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

NonProfit Quarterly

We are living through a syndemic—a time of multiple crises causing seismic economic, political, environmental, technological, and social shifts, which are long from being settled. In 2016, six women of color in the Colorado organizing and social justice movement ecosystem came together and formed Transformative Leadership for Change.