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Welcome to the 2021 Digital Inclusion Fellows

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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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Why Kansas City Has a Shot at Bridging the Digital Divide

Tech Soup

It is the largest city in Missouri and since 2000 has been growing again. Digital Divide libraries digital inclusion digital literacy tspubliclibraries' Kansas City is a classic Midwestern city that has endured a population decline in the latter part of the 20 th century and is fervently reinventing itself. Image: City of Kansas City.

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10 Ways to Find Monthly Donors for Your Small Nonprofit

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Here you can see how the Humane Society of Southeast Missouri uses their core number of $6.20: Erica says that the typical monthly gift across the board is about $24. Without them, young people on our waitlist continue to face the challenges that low levels of literacy create in their lives. For animal causes it’s about $22.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Education

Kindful

Literacy, particularly from birth through 3rd grade, is their primary focus because reading skills form the foundation for all childhood learning. Areas served: Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas. Areas served: Kansas City/Missouri. Areas served: Worldwide ( only communities where IP has operations/employees). Robin Hood.

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Student social good startups collect $95K in T-Mobile competition

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Louis, Missouri) A virtual and in-person book club founded to amplify African American literacy and uplift stories with Black and brown characters to encourage more diversity in books. Books N Bros (St.

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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

One CVA with a food bank in Missouri said, “Technology has been huge for connecting with youth that want to be a part of what we do right now.” “My daughters cannot begin a sentence except ‘I saw it on TikTok.’”.

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5 Ways Libraries Support Disaster Relief and Recovery

Tech Soup

After the shooting of Michael Brown by the local police, the city of Ferguson, Missouri erupted in chaos, violence, and unrest. She saw a tremendous need for literacy and outreach services, particularly to the Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood, where the aftereffects of Katrina were the most devastating.