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Welcome to the 2021 Digital Inclusion Fellows

NTEN

They jumped in head first to address significant digital inclusion challenges in a pandemic, figuring things out as they went, innovating, creating, and iterating to support their communities in the best way possible. Our seventh cohort includes 15 Fellows from around the country : Alabama, Georgia, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah.

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Higher Education Funding & Grant Resources

Bloomerang

Their priorities range from facilitating book donation drives to supporting arts education to funding playground construction and family literacy programs. . The Awesome Foundation is a global community advancing the interest of “awesome in the universe,” mostly through providing $1,000 micro-grants. Wish You Well Foundation.

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Vote for the Winners of the 2014 DoGooder Video Awards!

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So to all of our nonprofit community members, advocates, concerned citizens, and people who just fans of great video: You get to decide the 2014 DoGooder Video Awards winners. Help spread the word and show the world video’s amazing ability to do good!'

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Free In-Person Events for Nonprofit Techies

Tech Soup

Technologists and consultants will find opportunities to put your expertise to social good, as well as the potential for lasting relationships (be they paid or volunteer) with leading organizations in your community. Toronto, Canada: Toronto Net Tuesday: Digital Literacy for Nonprofits. Arlington, Texas: DFW Nonprofit Geeks.

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Why Kansas City Has a Shot at Bridging the Digital Divide

Tech Soup

Google plans to roll it out in Austin, Texas, and Provo, Utah as well. The Community Driven Fund. The fund is being administrated by the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation. Library director, Crosby Kemper, envisions expanding library services further into public housing and community centers. Dunn Construction.

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Interesting Uses of Technology: Virtual Libraries in Second Life

Tech Soup

" Dr. Valerie Hill is an adjunct instructor at Texas Woman's University School of Library and Information Science and is also a librarian herself. She came to the Nonprofit Commons to share her areas of expertise in media literacy, human-computer interaction, and the impact of the digital revolution on education and libraries.

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2015 SXSW Interactive Round Up

NTEN

>>Read the full article Digital Currency, Banking the Unbanked For many people around the world, digital literacy is more than gaining access to online content but truly having access to independence through education and banking. In the U.S. alone, some labor analysts believe that people are needed to fill an estimated 1.5