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

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Forty-two percent of Pottsboro’s school children are eligible for the National School Lunch Program. Here’s Dianne’s winning submission in its entirety: “The Pottsboro Library has made bridging the digital divide for teens a priority. Now the teens are branching out to other area nonprofits.

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What you need to know BEFORE you start a nonprofit

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Or is it for people who are not accepted by current shelters, such as mothers with teen boys? Or are you looking to open a shelter for teens who have left or been kicked out of their homes, a need totally different than the family shelters in your community. Is the need for more beds seasonal? And if you aren’t active, get active!)

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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 program offers year-round dance lessons and an annual event in which 80 children are joined by volunteers from professional dance schools.

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How Faith-based Nonprofits Can Use Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

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Giving Initiative For Teens – Homelessness and Poverty. This is a screenshot of the Giving Initiative for Teens’ Homelessness and Poverty campaign page, an example of a faith-based peer-to-peer event.]. In May of 2020, they decided to start a peer-to-peer fundraising campaign to help combat poverty and homelessness.

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6 Fundraising Platforms That Have Disrupted Charitable Giving Forever

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Why DonorsChoose.org is a Fundraising Game Changer: Charles Best started Donorschoose.org in 2000 out of his own frustrations of being a teacher in the Bronx who didn’t have the supplies he needed to teach effectively. With DICK’s Sporting Goods Foundation matching grants, $4.6

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A Strong Message for Fundraising = More and Bigger Donations

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Because of that community support, we are able to provide 125 families each month with the food they need to feed themselves and their children. . Today’s teens get the message that they need to go to college, but so many don’t know how to get to college, how to pay for college, or what they should do while they are at college. .

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: What Does it Really Mean to Serve "Underserved" Audiences?

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Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. The parents told her they felt okay about what their kids were learning but were concerned about their children''s job prospects as adults. If you can teach science, how can you be stupid? Many YES teens don''t come in with confidence about their own abilities.