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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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Teaching Online Safety: Building Curriculum

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Last week, TechSoup for Libraries held a webinar called Public Tech Instruction: Teaching the Public on Internet Safety. The Cleveland Public Library put together this fantastic activity/handout on tracing your digital footprint on the Internet. Learning Resources for Children and Families. Image: Shutterstock.

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9 Amazing Organizations Share Their Tech Success

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The library ordered 60 Dell refurbished desktop computers from TechSoup's Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) to provide its patrons with Internet access. The program offers year-round dance lessons and an annual event in which 80 children are joined by volunteers from professional dance schools. The Pumpkin Church.

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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. Installation took about a half hour to set up all stations and get then connected to the Internet.

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How Faith-based Nonprofits Can Use Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

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Basic peer-to-peer planning looks like this: [This image describes the basic steps of a peer-to-peer fundraiser: 1. Is there a backup plan in case the internet connection fails or isn’t fast enough? Giving Initiative For Teens – Homelessness and Poverty. Determine a goal, 2. Recruit volunteers, 3. Provide resources, 4.

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6 Fundraising Platforms That Have Disrupted Charitable Giving Forever

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Image courtesy Tsahi Levent-Levi via Flickr. For example, we haven’t been raising money with the Internet for very long,” I said. The American Childhood Cancer Organization (ACCO) is currently selling a t-shirt with the names of 3,400 children and teens who have fought or are still fighting childhood cancer.

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Designing Talkback Platforms for Different Dialogic Goals

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We have different conversations on the phone than we do in person or in internet chat rooms. This is the opposite situation of the previous design goal, one typical in science and children's museums. The outcome of our conversations is dependent on the diversity of designed environments in which they occur.

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