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Open Challenges Harness Local Knowledge for Local Change

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These open challenges help activists, nonprofits, journalists, techies, and community members identify, refine, build, and launch technology tools to solve pressing local and regional problems. Worman said that the challenge platforms also promoted local champions who had actually solved a social problem. How an Idea Becomes an App.

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How To Write a Grant Proposal: Guide + Templates

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Nonprofit grant proposals can be a daunting task for fundraisers, but it’s a key way to help gain more sustainable funding for your organization. From finding the right grants to writing and applying for them, grant proposals require a lot of research and attention to detail! What is a grant proposal?

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Funding Rural America: Bridging the Resource Gap

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Insights on Government Funding. Since government is a major funder of rural programs, it's useful to know that a clear trend in government funding is interagency collaborations. More government grants are looking for collaborations among multiple organizations that are able to address an issue from different angles.

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Building Your Grantseeking Program: Setting Measurable Objectives

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Whether you manage a nonprofit organization, an educational institution, or a government agency, there is one truth that is self-evident. That's compared to the largest individual award median of $150,000 for government funders (an aggregate of local, state, and federal government). Image : Andy Wetherill / CC BY.

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Ideas Wanted to Increase Participation in Elections

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Facilitate these activities at either the local, state, or national level. The contest is open to anyone — including journalists, local election officials, civic technologists, academics, businesses, nonprofits, governments, and individuals. Image 1: Jim Lynch. Image 2: Knight Foundation. spanhidden.

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Working Toward Internet Access for Everyone

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The big recent digital inclusion news is the Federal Communication Commission's ( FCC ) proposal to extend the Lifeline Program , which has supplied discounted phone service to low-income people since 1985. If this proposal is enacted, it will, at a stroke, do more to close the U.S. Image : ESOlex / Shutterstock.

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

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" Local humor aside, the project is exciting: 31 public parks in San Francisco will get free Wi-Fi for at least two years. Google's proposed Wi-Fi hotspots using Google Maps (very meta). As government budgets tighten and economic crises heighten, corporations can step in and bolster their communities.

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