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Planting Seeds of Prosperity: How CDFIs can Transform Rural Texas

This new resource from Texas Rural Funders offers an introduction to Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI). It includes an overview of how they care serve as a financial tool, examples of how TX Rural Funders members are collaborating with them and a directory of CDFIs in Texas.

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Texas Rural Funders
  • #Capacity Building
  • #People & Places
  • #Philanthropy
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Rural Library Success Stories

This resource shares success stories from eight Texas Rural Funders working in libraries.

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TRF
  • #Arts & Humanities
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Library Locations by Education Service Center Region, School District, and County

This resource outlines libary locations by district, county, and education service center.

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TRF
  • #Arts & Humanities
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Boosting Broadband with E-Rate

E-Rate helps schools and libraries boost their technology investment, and Boosting Broadband with E-Rate explains the program and shares inspiring examples of how E-Rate is used to help children and community members have more access to the latest technology with limited local investment.

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Tx Rural Funders
  • #Broadband
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Sources of Broadband Funding for Texas

This resource from Texas Rural Funders offers a non-exhaustive survey of funding and technical assistance for broadband projects in 2024.

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Texas Rural Funders
  • #Broadband
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Finding Funding for Fiber

Access to broadband has transformed our economy and our society. This document from Texas Rural Funders helps demystify funding and clarify the vocabulary of broadband development.

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Texas Rural Funders
  • #Broadband
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A Library of Things in Pottsboro

This library in Pottsboro, Texas reinvents the traditional library by offering a "library of things."

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Texas Rural Funders
  • #Arts & Humanities
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Operation Connectivity

Operation Connectivity formed to connect Texas's 5.5 million public school students with an e-learning device and reliable internet sufficient for learning.

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Texas Rural Funders
  • #Broadband
  • #Education
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Broadband Stories from Rural Texas

This report from Texas Rural Funders tells broadband stories across Texas counties, identifies key broadband stakeholders, offers policy recommendations.

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Texas Rural Funders
  • #Broadband
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Broadband Recommendations to Connect All Texans

Based on best practices and tailored to Texas, this report works through strategies that serve Texas households, local communities, and private internet service providers.

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Texas Rural Funders
  • #Broadband
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Get Connected Y’all: A Guide for Texas Communities on Securing Broadband

This guide from Texas Rural Funders offers a step-by-step approach to securing fast, reliable, affordable broadband internet service in communities. 

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Texas Rural Funders
  • #Broadband