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The Happy Healthy Nonprofit Book Tour: You Are Invited To Join Us

Beth Kanter

Aliza Sherman and I never dreamed that our book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , would be such a needed resource in the nonprofit field when we started writing it last year. Copies of our book available courtesy of Box.org. Hack the Hood Book Party. Won’t you join us? 501TechNYC.

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American Library Association Embraces GLBT Book Month

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For the first time, the American Library Association is offering its main stage to GLBT Book Month, a long-running event that highlights the best in literature that reflects the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender culture. GLBT Book Month isn’t a new feature of the literary world.

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Google, American Library Association Team on Coding Initiative

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ALA is working with the tech giant to make resources available to librarians in an effort to make exploring code as easy for kids as exploring a book at the library. Libraries have always been important places to learn, especially for kids—and they’ve never been exclusively about books.

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Authors Guild, Booksellers Association Partner to Promote Emerging Writers

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The authors will appear at events—which will include conversation and a book signing—with established authors such as Angie Thomas, Esmé Weijun Wang, and Rachel Vail. Authors Guild Executive Director Mary Rasenberger notes that this mixture of new and established authors is no accident.

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Airbnb’s Business Travel Fortunes Rise

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Business travelers are booking with Airbnb more often—and they’re spending even more on their rooms than usual. The growth, however, comes at a time when legal pressures are on the rise. That’s according to recent statistics from Concur.

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A night away? We sure did pay.

Aaron Wolowiec

The last time I booked a weeklong family vacation, I was shocked at the prices of hotel rooms. According to a new report by STR Inc. , According to the STR report, New York City boasted the highest room rates in 2014, where hotel guests paid an average of $263 a night. percent climb.

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IT Group Hosts Virtual Reality Events, Encourages Tech Careers

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Through a series of campaigns, initiatives, and a book, CompTIA is working to get young people interested in tech careers. Other initiatives , along with a book scheduled for release in March, also help parents guide their children toward considering a tech career through experimenting and problem solving with these tools on their own.