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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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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 enables social workers to proactively reach out to older clients, offering timely interventions and support before a crisis occurs.

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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

Take healthcare worker burnout for example Things like AI-supported charting, documentation and staffing companies like Abridge , Guardoc and In-House Health , can potentially cut that work by two-thirds.

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

Twenty Hats

One volunteer manager at an Arizona zoo described finding new ways to teach their volunteers about wildlife: “Over Zoom, we would give presentations about the different animals in our collection… So, for example, I did a presentation on bird conservation, which was not something that we ever had before. But for some, it opened doors.

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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.