Knowledge + Action CoLab

As an education-based organization, we love learning. Through our Knowledge + Action CoLab program, we partner with faculty and students from colleges and universities across the country. Together, we develop education abroad programs and design research opportunities that allow us and our partners to learn about the things that matter most. Below is a shortlist of some of the things we're learning about alongside our college and community partners.

Community-Based, Cooperative Economics

It's been said many times: "the way we're working isn't working." We need a new economy—one that's compassionate, collaborative, and cooperative. It must also be equal parts global and local. To get there, we need a radical rethinking of who economies are built for, which will then allow us to better determine how they should work.

Education For Moral Empowerment

If our economy isn’t working, neither is the way we educate our young. Too often, the content they learn in class is disconnected from the lives they lead at home or the issues affecting their communities. While technology and alternative models have started to disrupt the field of education, this has been a matter more of profits than principle. What might an education that cultivates the capacities of children, youth, and communities look and feel like?

GREATER governance AT ALL LEVELS

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