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Apply for the 2021 Digital Inclusion Fellowship

NTEN

The attempt thrust digital inequity into the public’s awareness. NTEN has long advocated that every organization needs to recognize the role of digital equity in meeting its mission. Our Digital Inclusion Fellowship is an excellent opportunity to expand your organization’s programming and strengthen community ties.

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How to Make This Your Most Successful Library Giving Day

sgEngage

Library Giving Day is an international one-day fundraising event that could significantly boost your library’s fundraising potential. How can you plan a more successful Library Giving Day? In 2022 alone, Library Giving Day reported 12,168 total donations adding up to $1.6 Check out what other libraries have done.

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Welcome to the 2021 Digital Inclusion Fellows

NTEN

While many in the digital inclusion sector have been pushing for digital equity for decades, there are others for whom the pandemic brought these issues to light. We saw more organizations and individuals becoming digital equity champions, affirming that we need government support in the sector.

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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Year That Was and the New Year Ahead Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, Benetech's VP and General Manager of the Literacy Program 2012 was a year of titanic shifts in the fields of consumer technology, education, and publishing, along with the requisite challenges brought about by such rapid change.

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Building a Digitally Literate Community

Tech Soup

Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age. Defining Digital Literacy. But first, what exactly is digital literacy? " The Role of Libraries.

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Corporate Citizenship and Digital Inclusion: Empowering Communities, Nonprofits, and Public Libraries

Tech Soup

Since 2007, San Francisco has been striving toward becoming a digitally inclusive city. The San Francisco Digital Inclusion Strategy (SFDIS) was part of former Mayor Gavin Newsom's campaign promise to provide all San Franciscans with free Wi-Fi. Other Corporate Digital Inclusion Projects. Powering Communities with Tech.

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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 Lisa Libraries. They focus funding on organizations that work on financial literacy for elementary and high school students (established programs only). Guitar Center.