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Feeding a Need: New App Helps Youth Find Free Summer Meals

Tech Soup

And there's a new free mobile app called Range that helps libraries, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and others working with youth locate those free meal sites this summer. Register for TechSoup for Libraries' upcoming free webinar on May 28. This post originally appeared on TechSoup for Libraries.

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Encouraging Philanthropy at a Young Age: Teaching Your Kids To Give To Causes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Amy says that now that her daughter has entered her teen years, they segued to more complex themes. " Create a Holiday Tradition of Giving Happy Katie recalls her own childhood traditions of giving, both during the holidays and year round. Amy Sample Ward reminds us that your kids don't have to give cash only.

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Next Gen Favorites: Wattpad

The Verge

Looking beyond my local library, I found a new way to think about writing. I started reading early, and I spent my childhood hungry for stories. When I found it in 2012, the site functioned as a microcosm of teen popular culture, reflecting the platform’s large contingent of Gen Z and millennial users.

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Graphic novels are booming in popularity. It’s changing children’s relationship with books

Fast Company Tech

Comics as an art form regressed, says Eva Volin, supervising children’s librarian at the Alameda Free Library in California. But in the midst of this dearth, small communities of comics-lovers persisted, says Robin Brenner, head of reference and programming at the Woburn Public Library outside Boston. It feels so intimate.