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Family Group Conferences (FGCs) can be life-changing for people preparing for a new child 👥 Read Amy’s story to learn about the #impact of the #FamilyValued innovation 👇 https://lnkd.in/eb_m-Kth

Really interesting international debate on financial education in Europe. Many cases and different perspectives from various European Countries. If education of new generations and financial security is important for you this is definitely something I recommend watching/listening. 

Global crises continue to impact communities around the globe, and we risk losing generations of knowledge. By investing in scholars confined or displaced by violence, natural disasters, public health emergencies, or systemic injustice, we can preserve and uplift their lives and the numerous lives they touch. I am looking forward to meeting with our partners at the Scholar Rescue Fund Forum to discuss creating, sustaining, and expanding partnerships that will preserve human capital and empower communities throughout Europe. About the Forum: The IIE Scholar Rescue Fund Forum is a one-day conference that will convene a diverse set of more than 100 IIE-SRF stakeholders from Europe and around the world to highlight innovative partnerships and initiatives that are driving sustainable programming to support threatened and displaced scholars. Participants will learn from and be inspired by IIE-SRF partners across sectors and at the local, regional, and national levels whose efforts are enhancing existing support models and bridging geographic distances. We will also hear from IIE-SRF fellows and alumni who are impacting their home and host communities. #IIESRFForum24 

Science that relies on local knowledge has responsibilities. Are you prepared to work equitably with communities or community partner organizations? Learn directly from community leaders Omega R Wilson, Margaret Gordon and others who have decades of experience navigating relationships for sound science that drives action. This workshop will introduce intentional processes for fostering relationships and for establishing equity in your research project, program, or community partnership. https://lnkd.in/eUQP8jSu #communityscience #participatoryscience

Today's workshop will build your skills for science that serves communities, learning directly from community experts who know what that takes. Register now to join in. #communityscience #participatorysciences #citizenscience #equity

SSIR’s Winter ’25 Issue will be online next week! In the cover story, “Collectively Owned Strategies,” Jordan Fabyanske, Sonila Cook, and Mariah Levin from Dalberg Catalyst and The DO School Fellowships advance the idea of shared strategies for social impact that place funders and the organizations and people they work with on more equal footing. Plus: Community development experts David Fukuzawa, Nancy Andrews, and Rebecca Steinitz apply a similar sense of collective ownership to “a new blueprint” for financing community development, and management scholars Joel Bothello and Tim Weiss argue that development professionals should take an assets-based approach to strengthening Africa’s urban informal economies. More must-reads: A case study on the world’s first community-led blue carbon credit project on the voluntary market; guidance for reforming public health education to help leaders respond to an increasingly complex era; a company that’s shaking up the spice trade; a profile of Ukraine’s wartime lifesavers; research on how to fight polarization; and more. This issue also includes two special supplements from the Skoll Foundation (Social Innovation and the Journey to Transformation) and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) (Practices for Transitions in a Time Between Worlds). ✅ There’s still time to subscribe and get your very own print copy of this incredible issue! https://lnkd.in/eTRxhPWe ✍ Sign up for SSIR’s newsletter for updates on the new issue, new online stories, and more: https://lnkd.in/gYk49K9z ⏩ Share this post with someone you think will want to read the new issue of SSIR!

We've been asked to partner with academia to share our conclusions. This effort would become hopelessly entangled if we asked 30,000 academic institutions to corroborate our conclusions. We offer something better. We invite open debate on these issues and are prepared to defend them in public at the moment. Let's start with this. The human trajectory, as it stands, is not remotely survivable. At Noēsis, we know why. We don't make predictions. We make and defend arguments. An alternative viewpoint, one that shows modern humanity to be sustainable in any way, requires an argument. No argument will be avoided; no criticism will be hidden. #CollaborationForSustainability #FactsOverFriction #NoesisProject #NonprofitOrganization https://noesisproject.com/

April is #CitizenScienceMonth! Did you know that over 564,000 people volunteered to help NOAA collect data and learn more about Earth through #CitizenScience opportunities in fiscal year 2022? Learn how you can get started with us: https://lnkd.in/ebpXv89F

An open note to the Wake Forest community at large and the Wake Forest Jewish community. The events of the past few weeks have demonstrated discussions about freedom of speech, students standing up for their rights and beliefs, faculty standing up for their rights, and an administration trying to support freedom of speech, their faculty, their students and their greater community. They have also shown how the world can come together when things don’t seem right. In the end, I believe the administration came to the right decision. Cancel the pro-Hamas anti-Semitic speaker on October 7. https://lnkd.in/etD5YxYN  I know that this was not a simple decision. Faculty need to have the right to bring in speakers who represent all sides of important issues. However, it is the administration’s responsibility to make sure that whoever comes to our campus does not cause pain or fear in our community, nor stand for something contrary to the fundamental values at our core. Terrorism, is not one of those values. As we move forward from this event, we need to have a continuing conversation with our school from academic and administrative perspectives. I believe that this event was scheduled to intimidate, provoke and challenge the administration at the expense of our community. I would like to commend the administration and ask that my fellow Wake community members do the same. It is not easy or taken lightly for administration to cancel an academic sponsored event. I would suggest that we look forward, and have a constructive discussion about how we can make sure that this does not happen again. I do not believe this talk was scheduled for any good academic reason and was not in the best interest of our students. To quote the letter that my son sent to the department heads, “Wouldn't it make sense to bring in a scholar who can evoke productive and empathetic conversations towards all people? One who does not cause pain to any person in our community? Wouldn't it be better to support our students on this 1st anniversary of a murderous slaughter and wait a few weeks to have a conversation about how we can learn and grow into leaders who can find ways for all of us to live in peace and without terrorism?” This is what we should have seen from our faculty. I think the next step in the evolution of this controversy is to support our institution in ensuring that this is the approach taken towards the hard subjects that so desperately need conversation in a Pro Humanitate manner. Marc Winthrop, P’ 27

Join us for an interactive discussion on the importance of fieldwork tomorrow! Details in post below. See you there!