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Nomad Cafe: How to Start a Green Cafe

Have Fun - Do Good

Have you ever thought about starting a green cafe? When the WorldChanging SF bloggers had their first face-to-face meeting there, I asked Chris if he would do an e-interview with me about how he started the cafe, what makes it green and how other people can start their own green cafes. Create a business plan. Secure financing.

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

Tech Soup

Pottsboro is a small town located 75 minutes north of Dallas on the Texas-Oklahoma border. When librarian Dianne Connery came to the library a few years ago, she found a classic small town library situated in a converted post office building with the requisite institutional green paint job. Their prize was a Dell Latitude Tablet 10.

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The Most Generous Online Giving Cities in the U.S.

Connection Cafe

Oklahoma City. 415,068.00. 3,831,628.14. 136,067.00. 1,254,477.80. 164,759.00. 1,515,883.50. 105,809.00. 964,894.77. 967,487.00. 8,795,222.76. Tallahassee. 182,965.00. 1,662,103.19. 9,084.27. 118,117.00. 481,782.40. Rancho Cucamonga. 167,721.00. 675,466.54. 152,222.00. 613,031.57. 591,967.00. 2,375,837.98. 193,675.00. 766,372.50. 179,611.00.

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The Wildness in the Corner: A Discussion with Jason Nelson

Museum 2.0

I grew up in Oklahoma. But there’s a lot of unexpected beauty in Oklahoma—weird folk art with plastic deer, a beautiful house. When I lived in Bowling Green, the museums in Ohio used to bother me with exhibitions like The Art of Star Wars. I’d find a blog and say you might be interested by this—and then it spread out.

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Welcome Ideas At Any Time From Anyone

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Carl Magee invented the parking meter when back in 1932 the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce asked Magee to solve problems caused by all-day parkers in the downtown business district. Spencer, when a chocolate bar melted in his shirt pocket as he stood in front of a magnetron, the microwave tube used to power radar?

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[VIDEO] The Board’s Role in Fundraising & Resource Development

Bloomerang

Each board member had a give of 500, a give of 5,000 and if it was in the green for that quarter, that meant they were on track. On a private plane, I didn’t know banks own private planes, but they flew me on a private plane to talk to the Mabee Foundation in Oklahoma and we got $250,000 gift from there.

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