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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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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. Founding donors to the fund include Google Fiber , the Illig Family Foundation, Sprint , Global Prairie , Polsinelli Law , and J.E.

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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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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Today I’m in San Antonio, Texas, for the American College of Preventive Medicine annual conference. Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. Response : studies show that people expect a response on social media.

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2021 Funding & Grant Resources For Women’s Empowerment Organizations

Kindful

Global Fund for Women. Texas Women’s Foundation. Wallace Global Fund. This foundation supports children, families, and communities as they strengthen and create conditions that propel vulnerable children to achieve success as individuals and as contributors to the larger community and society. Oak Foundation.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Women’s Empowerment Organizations

Bloomerang

Global Fund for Women. Texas Women’s Foundation. Wallace Global Fund. This foundation supports children, families, and communities as they strengthen and create conditions that propel vulnerable children to achieve success as individuals and as contributors to the larger community and society. Oak Foundation.

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ASTC Recap: Questions, Colors, and Reflective Research

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Worth, Texas. We so frequently over-focus on our own institutions' problems, and Jane and her cohorts in Pittsburgh are thinking much more expansively about their collective power to make positive change in their community. Last week, the Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC) held their annual meeting in Ft. Leary (NRG!