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Amazon withholds its ebooks from libraries because it prefers you pay it instead

The Verge

It’s doing so because the company thinks the terms involved with selling digital versions of books to libraries, which in turn make them available to local residents for free through ebook lending platforms like Libby, are unfavorable. In fact, Amazon is the only major publisher that’s doing this, the report states.

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NetSquared October Event Preview

Tech Soup

San Francisco, CA: Let’s Learn About Project Homeless Connect SF: Discussion and Brainstorming. Don’t have a local NetSquared Local group? Creative Commons licensed by Neal Gillis. Vancouver, Canada: NetVideo² -A casual get together that will make you more awesome! Washington, DC: NetSquared meetup.

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Fighting for a cause

ASU Lodestar Center

For the next few days I became familiar with runaway and homeless youth issues. Similar exchange systems were also established with the police department and local nonprofits that might refer youth to the shelter. state and the city to find out what we needed to do to become licensed. I looked up shelters all over the U.S.

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Are You Serving Youth in Your Community? Think You Could Use a Free Tablet?

Tech Soup

The organization with the most innovative and effective usage of a donated TechSoup product will receive the Lenovo IdeaPad AND will be featured as the "Youth Impact" story for an entire month on our Local Impact Map (LIM). success stories july14contest Local impact map youthorg' Poke around the map and see for yourself.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A nonprofit organization that provides support for homeless in Northern, CA found references to homeless people on restaurant blogs and used what they learn for a fundraising campaign. Growing and Eating Local Foods. It is an idea closely tied with the term user-generated content and creative commons licensing.

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Get Help in Telling the Story of Your Nonprofit's Impact

Tech Soup

If you don't have a local group (I can help fix that problem! ), there are also free online guides and a global Twitter chat October 5 using the hashtag #storymakers2017. Mason, Ohio: Help Create an App for Homeless to Manage Money More Effectively. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members. Mukono, Uganda.

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How HART for Animals Built a Modern Pet Rescue Center

Tech Soup

To their horror, they learned that homeless pets in their area can freeze and die during the brutal winter months. A local college had donated some computers to HART, but HART had no operating systems. After owning a translation company for years, Pellet and her husband retired and bought a house in the mountains.