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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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What you need to know BEFORE you start a nonprofit

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Or is it for people who are not accepted by current shelters, such as mothers with teen boys? Or are you looking to open a shelter for teens who have left or been kicked out of their homes, a need totally different than the family shelters in your community. Map out as much as you can with as many details as possible.

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

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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). Poke around the map and see for yourself. Click here to read the full story pictured above.

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Caravan Studios Showcases Diverse Apps for Social Good

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Focusing in on Local Issues. Bedsider was started as support network operated by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. candidate at University of Pittsburgh, demonstrated FracTracker , an app that maps impacts of oil and gas extraction sites through crowdsourcing. Open Data San Francisco.

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Nonprofits and App Developers Combine Forces for Community Change

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Refuge Restrooms is a web application and a mobile app (Android and iOS) that crowdsources and maps locations of gender-neutral and trans-safe bathrooms. She wanted to create something that teens and adults could use and that was also free. Crowdfunding Help. It has been covered by TechCrunch, The Baltimore Sun , CBS News , and more.

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An Amazing NpTech Social Media Link Buffet: Take Your Pick!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Twestival Local Weekend : Last February, Twestival raised over $250,000 for charity:water on Twitter on February 13th with more 200 cities sponsoring local tweet, meet, and give parties. Visual Mapping and Diagnostics for Scaling Change : From Steve Waddel, Iscale - this paper has done the impossible! Inspiration.

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[VIDEO] Get More Grants with Donor Cultivation

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So that means that I sat five hours for a really, really long multiple-choice test, and have a whole bunch of credentials that say I get national certification for doing this. You’re going to see a big map of the U.S. Big map of the U.S. And I know some of my clients are very local. This is just for U.S.

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