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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. Recruiting a cohort is tricky.

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Boys & Girls Clubs of the Valley Increases Efficiency with VolunteerHub

The Volunteer Hub

Listen to the full audio recording VolunteerHub is helping Boys & Girls Clubs of the Valley recruit, engage, and manage volunteers. Donna: Last year we recruited a little over 1000 volunteers and this year I anticipate having 1300 or so volunteers. This is significant because 46% of our members are below the poverty level.

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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.