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Want to stay healthier and fulfilled later in life? Try volunteering

Fast Company Tech

Children and teens who volunteer tend to have better health and lower levels of anxiety and fewer behavioral problems than those who dont volunteer. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. There are also health benefits for those who start volunteering much earlier in life.

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Enabling a Participatory Culture using Creative Commons Licenses

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Pratham Books: Snapshots from Bookaroo 2010 : Children's Literature Festival. Subsequently, I invited Gautam John who works with Pratham Books to write a guest post about their social publishing strategy where he briefly touched upon their use of Creative Commons licenses. Creative Commons to the rescue.

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ICE just signed a contract with facial recognition company Clearview AI

The Verge

The purchase order for $224,000 describes “clearview licenses” and lists “ICE mission support dallas” as the contracting office. The agency has been criticized for its practices at the US southern border, which has included separating immigrant children from their families and detaining refugees indefinitely.

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YouTube’s biggest kids show is about to take over streaming services

The Verge

Old dogs like Nickelodeon are out; Moonbug is in Although The Umbrella Academy was all over Tumblr and people couldn’t seem to stop bingeing Cobra Kai and Lucifer , one of Netflix’s most-watched shows in August was a three-episode children’s program called Cocomelon. It has since been a constant on Netflix’s top trending row.

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. Since then, we have published and shipped over 8.5

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Expressable launches with millions for scalable speech therapy

TechCrunch

The early-stage startup is launching with an explicit focus on serving the approximately five million children in the United States that have a communication disorder. Put simply, Expressable connects children to speech-language pathologists on a recurring basis. million seed round. What it does.

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The Ultimate Nonprofit SharePoint App: The Case Management Database of Children's Network of Solano County

Tech Soup

Thanks to Darren DeRose, the IT Administrator for Children's Network of Solano County in Fairfield, California, having a shared database is no longer such a problem. The Children’s Network of Solano County does lots of things to support low-income families across their county.