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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.

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How Investors Can Shape AI for the Benefit of Workers

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Currently, about half of teachersā€™ time is spent not with students but on grading, lesson planning, and curriculum development, as well as other administrative tasks. Some of these tasks could be areas where generative AI technology like Brisk Teaching could serve as a useful copilot for overburdened employees.

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Teaching Cooperative Intelligence, for a Solidarity Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

Such, at least, is the thesis of work Iā€™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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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

Movements were not always organized this way, and this shift of movements from the self-financing movements of the past (such as labor unions in the 1930s) to the grant-dependent movement organizations of the present creates significant challenges for achieving transformative change. 46 Education in community economics is also key.