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What do Twitter, Books, Wine, and Fundraisers have in Common?

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Room to Read , a San Francisco based non-profit, will help us make that happen by bringing libraries and literacy to the world's poorest regions. Based on my experience with the Sharing Foundation in Cambodia, I know how important it is for children in developing countries to have books to read in their own language.

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A Hearty Congratulations to TechSoup Members Winning Google Impact Challenge Awards

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Google Global Impact Award competitions have been held in India and the UK, and most recently in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bring Me a Book is creating a "literacy ecosystem" via social media in Alameda and Santa Clara Counties. 250,000 Grant Winners. They specialize in providing both hard and soft job skills.

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#CelebrateAdobeCC — It's a Wrap!

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Our winners represent a little glamour from the Russian River Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, plus some creativity from Yerba Buena Gardens Festival and Literacy Services of Wisconsin. Our Silver Prize — a free one-year membership to Adobe Creative Cloud — goes to Yerba Buena Gardens Festival in San Francisco, California.

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5 Ways Libraries Support Disaster Relief and Recovery

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Staffers also let people from outside of Saskatoon check out books from the library and access other services. For example, the San Francisco Public Library's website has a page that curates local services and resources on preparing for and dealing with the aftermath of an earthquake. Libraries as Evacuee Resource Centers.

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Ask Britt: How to make a second hand bookstore a positive force for good

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Just owning an independent bookstore is creating a positive force for good, in my book (no pun intended). Create a "Buy Local" holiday shopping weekend with fellow vendors like the San Francisco Small Business Commission's Shop Local First campaign. Here are a few ideas for your husband's new business venture: • Be green.

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Writing to Change the World

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This year's speaker was journalist, Samantha Power , who received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for her book, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. They will be using the National Writing Project Book as their text. It was co-founded by two literary agents, Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen.

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Riffing on David Armano's Listen, Learn, and Adapt: Need Your Organization's Adaption Stories!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm also using this for the upcoming WeAreMedia Workshop in San Francisco which has a section on experiments and measurement. As the chief listener for the organization, Wendy honed her listening literacy skills using free tools like google alerts, technorati, RSS reader, and delicious. More on that later. Conclusion.

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