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Ideal to real: How to get books onto public buses?
An experiment: can our community’s collective brainpower help an idea become reality? Every morning, Idealist staffer Amy Potthast reads books with her son on their 30-minute bus ride to his preschool....
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How communities around the world are promoting literacy and the joy of reading
The piece below was translated and edited from the original Spanish version on the blog of our Spanish site Idealistas. The links below also go to Spanish websites. Check them out! This week is banned...
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Try This! Team up with other literary organizations to pack a real punch
The idea What do you do when you have an awesome literary nonprofit organization that happens to have a very similar mission to other groups your area? Well, instead of competing for resources by...
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Why I keep sending books to prisoners
This week’s spotlight: all things books. Letters from prisoners requesting books. (Photo via Kristin Stadum.) I hate Wednesday. I really hate Wednesday. The day wrecks me. I end up cold, tired and...
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How the Garden Library in Tel Aviv is growing community
Growing up with an Israeli mom and an American dad, I spent my summers in Tel Aviv and the school-year in New York. South Tel Aviv was not an area we would frequent as a family. Distinguished by its...
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