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

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Neurodivergent children often struggle with social interactions, communication, and emotional regulation, hindering their learning and development. However, social workers and educators can use AI-powered emotion recognition software to gain valuable insights into a child’s emotional state and adjust their teaching approach accordingly.

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The EPA Launches Final Strategy on Lead Mitigation

NonProfit Quarterly

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. Working in tandem with over 200 tribal partners, the EPA designed a curriculum called Lead Awareness in Indian Country: Keeping our Children Healthy!

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Why Common Core Will Fail

Ken Goldstein

The latest in educational "fixes," promoted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the National Governors Association, and the Obama administration, the Common Core initiative was developed "to provide a clear and consistent framework to prepare our children for college and the workforce." Not so in Boyle Heights.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

“RULER OF THE EARTH” BY YUET-LAM TSANG Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” How do social movements come to make the language of economic systems change their own? Nonprofits often play quasi-governmental roles.