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

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Pottsboro Area Library in Texas. We of course got lots of great stories, and our winner is the Pottsboro Area Library. Pottsboro is a small town located 75 minutes north of Dallas on the Texas-Oklahoma border. The library has new promotional materials to use. Their prize was a Dell Latitude Tablet 10.

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Higher Education Funding & Grant Resources

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The Lisa Libraries. Our grants are awarded to schools, local music programs, and national music programs.”. The Lisa Libraries. The Lisa Libraries donates new children’s books and small libraries to organizations that work with children in low-income or underserved areas. Areas served: Houston/Texas.

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Welcome to the 2021 Digital Inclusion Fellows

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Some major victories were also won on both the local and federal levels in getting government recognition and support around digital access. Our seventh cohort includes 15 Fellows from around the country : Alabama, Georgia, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah.

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MathAndCoding Turns the Library into a Coding Classroom (Part 2)

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In part 1 of this series, we introduced MathAndCoding , a nonprofit that offers teen-led programming classes for children in public libraries in the Silicon Valley area. As the first librarian to host it, Karin Bricker, library manager for youth and outreach services at Mountain View Public Library, had to overcome some initial skepticism.

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Interview with Carolyn Appleton: How to Launch Your Grant Writing Career

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Carolyn has many years of hands-on experience working in the trenches of nonprofit fundraising across Texas and beyond. It was then that I began working at a local art museum as a volunteer. When I look back, this was one of the most sophisticated fundraising programs in Texas! Q: What are the best grant writing courses?

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TechSoup Honors Unsung Heroes

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I'd like you to meet Kerry Thomson at Habitat for Humanity of Monroe County, Indiana; Lori Chidgey of Corazon Ministries in San Antonio, Texas; Betty Martin of Cape Girardeau Public Library in Missouri; and the late Rory Foster of the Northwoods Wildlife Center in Minocqua, Wisconsin. Unconditional Love and Justice.

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Why Kansas City Has a Shot at Bridging the Digital Divide

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Google plans to roll it out in Austin, Texas, and Provo, Utah as well. The fund will rely on local nonprofits to figure what the right solutions are for this specific region. The Kansas City Public Library System will also have a role in this work. Digital Divide libraries digital inclusion digital literacy tspubliclibraries'