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Higher Education Funding & Grant Resources

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Similar to the funders in my previous post on education , the organizations listed below focus their efforts on activities inside and outside of the classroom. Their priorities range from facilitating book donation drives to supporting arts education to funding playground construction and family literacy programs. . Areas served: US.

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MathAndCoding Turns the Library into a Coding Classroom (Part 2)

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like Texas, where one instructor will be heading to college. The concept of] family literacy is also very important in our community. MathAndCoding volunteers are now doing this at more than 12 libraries in the region. They are also considering expanding the program to other parts of the U.S.

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9 Amazing Organizations Share Their Tech Success

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Legacy of Hope Austin is a Texas-based arts charity that's created the 2dance2dream program , providing a way for children with special needs to express themselves through movement and music. The Kosch-Westerman Foundation connects terminally ill children to their classrooms through technology. They said you want an example?

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Computer Refurbishment and Accessibility

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It supplies computers to disabled people of all ages through its technology lending library and it also supplies for special-needs classrooms. The software applications WordQ + SpeakQ provide writing assistance and speech recognition help for people with disabilities, new language learners, and those who are learning literacy.

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[VIDEO] Measure Of Success: Creating Tools And Process To Report Impact

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Do they like those one-time projects, those capital projects where you can build that outdoor classroom or,” you know, “purchase that mobile mammogram unit for your hospital and be able to create impact for years to come?” But then Duck Team 6 in Texas wrote an application and said, “$500 funds 5 spay surgeries.”

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