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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. . Educational Assistance and Training Programs. Areas served: Mexico, Haiti, US (priority: Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, New Orleans). The Lisa Libraries.

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Structural Poverty and the Non-Adoption Tax

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GCCE and the New Mexico State Library are partners in Fast-Forward New Mexico (FFNM), a BTOP-funded project. Among other things, the project provides for 64 hours of free Internet training in 17 libraries around the state.

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Government, Community, and Corporate Partnerships to Expand Broadband Access

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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

Grants will be awarded to nonprofit organizations across Middle Tennessee serving a wide range of causes, including: animal welfare, arts and humanities, conservation and preservation, environment, education, employment and training, health and human services, housing, and economic and community development. Areas served: Santa Fe/New Mexico.

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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 organization promotes ASEAN awareness through language training, mass media, and youth exchange activities (such as volunteer programs and youth camps).

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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Cristi Hegranes: My name is Cristi Hegranes and I am the President and Founder of The Press Institute for Women in the Developing World which is an international nonprofit organization that was founded in order to train women in developing countries to become investigative reporters to report their own news. We are pushing an envelope there.