Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2013

I say thorny because despite the nearly $300 million in stimulus funding awarded by the U.S. The Kansas City Public Library System will also have a role in this work. Library director, Crosby Kemper, envisions expanding library services further into public housing and community centers. He’s a very impressive guy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Stopping fund raising and subscription revenue for Bookshare, the largest online library for people who have print disabilities. Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books. Let me give two specific examples that came up in my first conversation with a lawyer about the proposed bill: 1.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Users advance through a standard syllabus, playing for 15 or 20 minutes a day, with the app listening to their performance and awarding one to three stars based on how many mistakes they made. “We want to make musicality to be as common as literacy,” Thür said. per month.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2015

They will create and promote digital literacy programs. The 2015 UK Digital Leaders 100 Award for digital inclusion was awarded to Citizens Online. The organization already has a significant array of members , which include mostly cities, libraries, and nonprofits. Every Public Library in the United States.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

You can vote for who will be awarded $100,00, named CNN's Hero of the Year, and be honored at "An All-Star Tribute" with Anderson Cooper at 9 ET Thanksgiving night. According the CNN Heroes site, they received nearly 4,000 submissions from 75 countries that were narrowed down to 10 candidates by a Blue Ribbon Panel.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 4, 2007

For the past five years, the Mercantile Library in Cincinnati has honored Harriet Beecher Stowe's birthday by asking a writer to give the annual Harriet Beecher Stowe Lecture about, "Writing to Change the World." She also won the 2005 National Magazine Award for Reporting for her article, " Dying in Darfur ," in The New Yorker.

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Neon CRM

MARCH 21, 2025

This team fundraising idea is ideal for library associations or literacy-focused nonprofits, but any organization can do it if its audience is interested. You can make your tournament more fun (and your fundraising more successful) by securing sponsorships for awards like most strikes in a row or most eccentric bowling style.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Charge admission and screen popular movies, or theme it around the Academy Awards by screening some of the 2024 nominees. Reading challenge Issue a community-wide reading challenge this spring to encourage literacy in your community. Encourage participants to take advantage of your local public library and get reading!

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

You can also choose a nice leisurely scenic ride or a more intense, high-speed one with prizes awarded. The apps are typically designed around the needs of the cause, like creating a pet-finding app for an animal shelter or a library app for an English literature association.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. Global Literacy Sixth Grader and Bookshare member Kevin Leong with Jim Fruchterman at Benetech''s offices. Our Bookshare online library is continuing to multiply its impact. But what about everybody else?

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

[Cover Images: Little Brown Ink, First Second/Macmillan] Graphic novelsa term interchangeably used with comic booksare particularly popular among young children still building their literacy skills. Comics as an art form regressed, says Eva Volin, supervising children’s librarian at the Alameda Free Library in California.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

Their priorities range from facilitating book donation drives to supporting arts education to funding playground construction and family literacy programs. . The Lisa Libraries. They award grants for educational innovations that prepare youth to become the socially responsible leaders of the future. The Lisa Libraries.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2015

The Saskatoon Public Library opened its doors to these evacuees, and staff members stepped up their efforts to help the evacuees communicate with their family and friends. Staffers also let people from outside of Saskatoon check out books from the library and access other services. Educating the Public on Disaster Preparedness.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2015

Oakland's incoming mayor, Libby Schaaf, even stopped by to close the conference and to award "Civic Innovator" medals to city staff. I was especially thrilled to see that the Oakland Public Library was present. The event itself was held in Oakland City Hall and a number of city departments attended the event.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 23, 2025

The Institute of Museum and Library Services was also on the list. Congress created the IMLS in 1996 through the Museum and Library Services Act. The law merged the Institute of Museum Services, which was established in 1976, with the Library Programs Office of the Department of Education. The Conversation U.S.

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