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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.
Rural Library Success Stories
This resource shares success stories from eight Texas Rural Funders working in libraries.
Library Locations by Education Service Center Region, School District, and County
This resource outlines libary locations by district, county, and education service center.
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.
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.
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.
A Library of Things in Pottsboro
This library in Pottsboro, Texas reinvents the traditional library by offering a "library of things."
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.
Broadband Stories from Rural Texas
This report from Texas Rural Funders tells broadband stories across Texas counties, identifies key broadband stakeholders, offers policy recommendations.
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.
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.