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The EPA Launches Final Strategy on Lead Mitigation

NonProfit Quarterly

Communities at Risk In an article about childhood lead exposure and disparities, the Kaiser Family Foundation writes that “areas with higher blood lead levels are associated with low home ownership, high poverty, and residents who are a majority people of color.” which is the basis for the new sessions.

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A Primer for Incubating Child Care Businesses

NonProfit Quarterly

Without access to quality childcare, many parents cannot work full time and become trapped in a cycle of poverty. Our initial focus was on counties with poverty and unemployment rates that exceeded statewide averages. 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

Nearly one in five home healthcare aides lives in poverty. Currently, about half of teachers’ time is spent not with students but on grading, lesson planning, and curriculum development, as well as other administrative tasks. Already, the guidelines have drawn the support of dozens of venture investors, startups, and others.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

And as nonprofits moved away from their member-driven and member-funded mutual aid and organizing roots, they took on a hierarchical structure modeled after corporate culture, became dependent on grants from foundations/government, and became run by “expert” staff to provide services or lead advocacy efforts.