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Can Labor Save Higher Education as a Public Good?

NonProfit Quarterly

They include a spate of police actions on campuses , anti-DEI and anti-tenure legislation, academic freedom lawsuits , weaponization of accreditation , and political tests for everything from curriculum to top institutional leadership. This view is truly disruptive of historic social relationships and university hierarchies.

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Unlocking the Value of Circles

NonProfit Quarterly

While peer circles are widely used in corporate and educational contexts, their value to nonprofits and community organizers is underappreciated. Experts often overcomplicate lectures with jargon and references that may not be culturally relevant to the people they are trying to teach.

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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. he argued that an organized base of teachers and workers could reformulate the economy and, in the process, reshape both the civic and economic training that public education offered.

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

Twenty Hats

So I think, in many ways, for as often as everybody complains about technology and all the challenges, I think this past year could have gone very differently if we didn’t have these platforms.” — Volunteer manager embracing technology in Ohio. Some manage a handful of volunteers, others work with many thousands.

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[VIDEO] Power Of Community In Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang, we are also a provider of donor management software. . I’ll share some lessons as we go, experiences that I’ve had, and how to also manage different stakeholders and people. So we’ll have some tools to help you manage the process as well. Move aside, Julie.

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Navigating Climate Justice: Empowering BIPOC Youth with Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing

NonProfit Quarterly

Image: “ In Communion with Dorian” by Renée Laprise/ [link] Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2024 issue, “Supporting the Youth Climate Justice Movement.” It provides a comprehensive platform for capturing, managing, analyzing, and visualizing geographic data from diverse sources.

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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.