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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. . They focus funding on organizations that work on financial literacy for elementary and high school students (established programs only). Areas served: Worldwide. Areas served: US.

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Structural Poverty and the Non-Adoption Tax

Tech Soup

GCCE and the New Mexico State Library are partners in Fast-Forward New Mexico (FFNM), a BTOP-funded project. She pointed out the sad irony that while Internet literacy is a key ingredient for fighting poverty in New Mexico, building up that literacy is more expensive in poor communities than in wealthy ones: read more.

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Government, Community, and Corporate Partnerships to Expand Broadband Access

Tech Soup

With shrinking budgets, providing increased access to the Internet and training for computer literacy can be particularly challenging for libraries and public computing centers. read more.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On The Environment And Conservation Efforts

Kindful

The Gray Family Foundation works to encourage greater civic engagement in Oregon through investments that promote environmental literacy and giving back to the systems that nurture all of us: our culture, our natural environment, and our communities. . Areas served: Santa Fe/New Mexico. Louis area(Missouri, Illinois).

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Vote for Your CNN Hero: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Impact

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Yohannes Gebregeorgis "Moved by the lack of children's books and literacy in his native Ethiopia, Yohannes Gebregeorgis established Ethiopia Reads , bringing free public libraries and literacy programs to thousands of Ethiopian children." Since November 2000, he has helped more than 420 people in southeastern Mexico, free of charge."

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

Vietnam is an S-shaped country that is slightly larger than New Mexico. Although Vietnam is regarded as a developing country, it has a literacy rate of 94 percent. The LIN Center takes risks that others are unwilling or unable to take. Some Fun Facts About Vietnam. It is densely populated with 92 million people.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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They come from all different casts, all different religions, and from indigenous backgrounds in Mexico. It was written in very scribbled Nepali, her literacy skills were incredibly rudimentary, but what she ended up writing was a piece of journalism. BB: So right now you work in Nepal and in Mexico? I said, "You write it.