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Welcome to the 2021 Digital Inclusion Fellows

NTEN

Our seventh cohort includes 15 Fellows from around the country : Alabama, Georgia, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah. Over the next year, these fellows will be learning, sharing, designing, implementing, and challenging themselves to become digital inclusion experts who can and will transform their communities.

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Nonprofit and Library App Survey from App It Up

Tech Soup

Back in September, we posted a summary of App It Up's nonprofit and library apps survey. represent the full range of nonprofit and library app experiences. represent the full range of nonprofit and library app experiences. Nonprofits and libraries are interested in building their own apps, though they.

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Interesting Uses of Technology: Virtual Libraries in Second Life

Tech Soup

Valerie Hill is an adjunct instructor at Texas Woman's University School of Library and Information Science and is also a librarian herself. She came to the Nonprofit Commons to share her areas of expertise in media literacy, human-computer interaction, and the impact of the digital revolution on education and libraries.

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Why Kansas City Has a Shot at Bridging the Digital Divide

Tech Soup

Google plans to roll it out in Austin, Texas, and Provo, Utah as well. 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. The Community Driven Fund. The City Of Reinvention.

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MathAndCoding Turns the Library into a Coding Classroom (Part 2)

Tech Soup

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 first librarian to host it, Karin Bricker, library manager for youth and outreach services at Mountain View Public Library, had to overcome some initial skepticism.

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Vote for Your CNN Hero: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Impact

Have Fun - Do Good

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."

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9 Amazing Organizations Share Their Tech Success

Tech Soup

Over the past year, we've been doing TechSoup Impact stories about nonprofits, churches, and libraries doing great work with TechSoup product donations. " Waukesha Public Library. An increasing number of public libraries are discovering TechSoup donations, but few are maxing them out like Waukesha Public Library in Wisconsin.

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