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

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Forty-two percent of Pottsboro’s school children are eligible for the National School Lunch Program. Here’s Dianne’s winning submission in its entirety: “The Pottsboro Library has made bridging the digital divide for teens a priority. Now the teens are branching out to other area nonprofits.

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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 MathAndCoding founders refined their processes and logistics, Bricker grew more confident in letting them move on to offer more advanced classes.

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How to Write Fundraising Emails That Get Results

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Then build the email so that every word, every image, every bit of formatting supports them to take that action. For example: “Many teen girls struggle with their self-esteem thanks to Instagram and Snapchat. We will provide career services right on site, including career classes, résumé support, and access to a jobs database.

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9 Amazing Organizations Share Their Tech Success

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Legacy of Hope Austin is a Texas-based arts charity that's created the 2dance2dream program , providing a way for children with special needs to express themselves through movement and music. The program offers year-round dance lessons and an annual event in which 80 children are joined by volunteers from professional dance schools.

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YMCA of Greater Seattle: Windows MultiPoint Server Case Study

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YMCA of Greater Seattle's Kirkland Teen program was one of our test sites. It serves an estimated 84,000 children and teens, so we hoped that this lab would be a serious test of a MultiPoint Server lab's resilience. Youth for Diversity Classes-(8 users=1 hour each per week). 10 users=15 hours/per week).

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

Amy Sample Ward

Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. My focus is on how children learn science. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Learning Science by Design.

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

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The cards are unique and beautiful and carry the voices of women (and some men) depicted in images and words and offer compassionate healing for those who both make them, and for those who receive them. We are also funding very special after school art classes in Afghanistan through our partnership with Trust In Education.