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Pottsboro Area Library: The Winner of TechSoup’s February Success Story Digital Connector Challenge

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Pottsboro Area Library in Texas. Pottsboro is a small town located 75 minutes north of Dallas on the Texas-Oklahoma border. Here’s Dianne’s winning submission in its entirety: “The Pottsboro Library has made bridging the digital divide for teens a priority. The teens also have access to GoPro and Nikon.

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

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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. like Texas, where one instructor will be heading to college. Bricker says that there is also another benefit, perhaps an unplanned one, to having teen volunteers.

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What Does a NetSquared Event Look Like?

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There are NetSquared groups in 50 cities who are dedicated to holding events for their local nonprofit technology communities. Houston, Texas: "Truth and Dare": Ideas and Insights from TED 2015. Austin, Texas: 15NTC Roundup! Arlington, Texas: DFW Nonprofit Geeks. Beirut, Lebanon: Android Development for Teens.

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The Deep Learning When Nonprofit Techies Get Together

Tech Soup

There are NetSquared groups in 50 cities who are dedicated to holding events for their local nonprofit technology communities. Arlington, Texas: DFW Nonprofit Geeks. Austin, Texas: National Council of Nonprofits — Google+ Hangout. Houston, Texas: "Truth and Dare": Ideas and Insights from TED 2015.

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A Powerful Experience in a Community Museum

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I was fortunate enough to visit it during the Texas Association of Museums conference, and it brought up some reactions and emotions that I wanted to share with you. The Brazos Valley African American Museum is in the town of Bryan, TX, a town of about 75,000 right next door to Texas A&M University.

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Crowd Fundraising for the Arts: No Running, Walking, or Freezing Plunges Required

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After jumping in, you swam across the short length of the hole (about 10 yards), and emerge, wet and freezing, only to get to race through temps in the teens to try to warm up in a lukewarm hot tub. As a Texas girl, I am not exaggerating when I say I thought I literally might freeze to death. But here I am, still alive.

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

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STAR’s Food Sovereignty Project (Leupp, Arizona) An effort to expand local gardens and teach community members how to grow and prepare their own meals and help offset food insecurity throughout the Navajo Nation reservation. Some of these are pretty legit. Feel free to look me up when that pre-seed round hits, all.

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