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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. Some focus on political education, others on business skills, and yet others on working in specific sectors, such as food.

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The Need for More Inclusive Leadership Narratives

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Deborah Bae & Kiernan Doherty The dominant narrative around leadership in many areas of the world centers individualism over solidarity. It suggests that there is one kind of leadership and that a single person—one who intervenes to solve a problem or envision a bold new reality—embodies it.

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From Lucy to Leadership Part 2: Our Origins’ Central Question

Fundraising Leadership

In teaching women how to redefine power via the 9 Leadership Power Tools curriculum , I have realized how deep seated some of our fears and gender-based behaviors around power and intentionality for our lives are. After writing last week about the discovery of the 3.2 He invited us to come see the rest of the building.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Institutions, hierarchies, and forms of leadership rooted in Western colonial ideology are failing, being renegotiated, and getting deconstructed—even in the face of intense backlash. Our leadership, needed now more than ever, is being tested like never before.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

The effort resulted in a shift from a White-led nonprofit to an organization that reflects the majority people of color communities that it serves—not just in terms of staffing and leadership but also in terms of overall movement practice. 46 Education in community economics is also key. 49 There are many examples of this.

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[VIDEO] Measure Of Success: Creating Tools And Process To Report Impact

Bloomerang

And, as I was sharing earlier, we usually teach this in person over a period of two to three hours, so, you all are getting the, what we’ll call, the boot-camp version of “Measure of Success.” Maybe I am teaching computer classes, or English as a second language classes, maybe I’m teaching those and I have 10 students.