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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. 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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How Investors Can Shape AI for the Benefit of Workers

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The care economy employs 17 percent of the US workforce, an area currently experiencing one of the greatest employment shortages, including home healthcare aides and nurses. Nearly one in five home healthcare aides lives in poverty.

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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. The resources for creating this revised curriculum already exist.

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Leveraging AI in Social Work: A Pathway to Empowering Vulnerable Populations

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

This proactive, data-driven approach can significantly improve the quality of life for elderly individuals and reduce the burden on healthcare systems. Additionally, social work schools should do more to incorporate emerging technology in the social work curriculum to equip students with the needed tools to thrive in tech spaces.

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I Owe You an Update

Fundraising Leadership

Based on my book Intentioning , I’m teaching it to live online in mastermind format, one hour a week for 13 weeks. The 9 Leadership Power Tools to Advance Your Career course remains the core curriculum, perfect for early or mid-career women. This highly interactive FUN series is especially good for women in leadership, in any sector.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

In the Bronx, co-op organizers have partnered with public school teachers to develop a curriculum where high school students “learn by doing.” Notable successes include distribution of free shoes, clothing, healthcare, and food that was often produced through cooperatives and collective activity ….Solidarity

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The Need for More Inclusive Leadership Narratives

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Discovering the Need for Change In 2016, after nearly 50 years of funding health and healthcare leadership development initiatives, RWJF launched four new leadership programs that sought to advance a Culture of Health , one that works to provide everyone in the United States a fair and just opportunity for health and well-being.