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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. Forty-two percent of Pottsboro’s school children are eligible for the National School Lunch Program. Now the teens are branching out to other area nonprofits. This was a win-win-win.

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The Deep Learning When Nonprofit Techies Get Together

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Arlington, Texas: DFW Nonprofit Geeks. Austin, Texas: National Council of Nonprofits — Google+ Hangout. Houston, Texas: "Truth and Dare": Ideas and Insights from TED 2015. Beyrouth, Lebanon: Android Development for Teens. Vancouver, British Columbia: Open Data for Nonprofits. Friday, March 27, 2015.

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9 Amazing Organizations Share Their Tech Success

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million people through national media outreach, including an appearance on "Good Morning America." Legacy of Hope Austin is a Texas-based arts charity that's created the 2dance2dream program , providing a way for children with special needs to express themselves through movement and music. They said you want an example?

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Why Are Nonprofits Experiencing An Insurance Crisis? And What Can the Nonprofit Sector Do About it?

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We have worked and/or are presently working on legislation with nonprofit associations in California, Texas, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Florida. Other examples involve teens that run away while staying in group homes. We were successful in helping to get a few provisions changed in Pennsylvania and California. This is not insurable.

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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. Autry National Center of the American West.

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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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Are you celebrating Giving Tuesday? These NTEN Members are!

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Giving Tuesday is a movement to create a national day of giving to kick off the giving season added to the calendar on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday. The second annual GivingTuesday is on December 3rd and we''ve found 124 NTEN Members that are participating!

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