Jane Morrow is the Executive Director of Smart Start of New Hanover County, a local nonprofit meeting the needs of children in their first 2000 days. Her 30-year career in the nonprofit sector has been to surround children and fa
When conducting your next job interview, one question you may want to add is “How much did you play as a young child?” The implications of what science is discovering about the im ...
A quick perusal of the news will find many stories about the high cost of childcare. “How can it be so expensive?” is often the lament of a harried parent trying to make ends me ...
Should we think of early childhood education as infrastructure? Infrastructure is the set of systems and facilities that are necessary for the economy, firms, and households to function. Often the fir ...
The phrase “the workforce behind the workforce” referring to early educators became popular during the height of the Covid 19 shutdown when employers and the community at large were sudden ...
Dan Brawley, head of the Cucalorus Film Festival and founder of Jengo’s Playhouse, recently discussed the venue’s year-round efforts and thi...
John Thomason used the loan he received from the fund, which now provides up to $15,000 for high-demand workforce training, to help cover mo...
S. Fletcher Daniels writes, "Nonprofits work at the intersections of complex social issues, so there isn’t a single 'bottom-line' metric lik...
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