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Pottsboro Area Library: The Winner of TechSoup’s February Success Story Digital Connector Challenge

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section of TechSoup.org we launched a contest last month for great digital inclusion stories. Forty-two percent of Pottsboro’s school children are eligible for the National School Lunch Program. A local TV station employee was hired to work with the teens in a 6-week course where they created a promotional video for the library.

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How They Did It: LWB Wins Facebook Causes Giving Challenge - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Sometimes, this even included an army of college students going door-to-door, ICU nurses convincing hospital staff to join, businessmen calling meetings to let their employees know about the contest, and other offline work. Their Causes page garnered over $94,000 from 6,268 members in 50 days. How did they do it?

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How They Did It: LWB Wins Facebook Causes Giving Challenge - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Sometimes, this even included an army of college students going door-to-door, ICU nurses convincing hospital staff to join, businessmen calling meetings to let their employees know about the contest, and other offline work. Their Causes page garnered over $94,000 from 6,268 members in 50 days. How did they do it?

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6 Fundraising Platforms That Have Disrupted Charitable Giving Forever

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This includes some of the most basic student essentials. The American Childhood Cancer Organization (ACCO) is currently selling a t-shirt with the names of 3,400 children and teens who have fought or are still fighting childhood cancer. Disruptive Model: Contest Crowdfunding. Co-Disruptor: Dodge Dart Registry.

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17 Ways We Made our Exhibition Participatory

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It was exhilarating to see them inspired to create their own meanings in response: lovers whispering together in alcoves, people of all ages writing and drawing on walls and post-its, children painting, everyone sitting rapt before screens. This installation is the only one that cost more than $30--about $2,000 for the parts.