Note from Anastasia: While I was chained to my computer every weekend finishing Totally Wired, Julia & Katie were out changing the world, one book at a time. Here's what they were up to during my hiatus.

Since 2003, we have been involved in service work that is both exciting and constantly evolving with the goal of systemic change as well as giving time, materials, and funds when possible. We have been so fortunate as young social entrepreneurs to have obtained grant support many times. One link on Socialedge.org details two of our projects supported by Ashoka's Youth Venture.

This summer, the Library Resource Grants of Philanthropic Ventures Foundation made it possible for us to bring our global literacy work at Teenlit to East Palo Alto Charter School's 8th grade class by giving us financial support to promote new young adult literature with teaching supplies, bookcases, and coordination for publishing book reviews online at Teenlit. We are bringing them new YA books that we obtain from publishers for free, in exchange for promoting the books with reviews along with our goal of spreading literacy skills. Fortunately, we were then able to receive a postage grant from Bread for the Journey of Santa Clara so that we could continue to send books globally for web-based reviews. Social ventures are on the rise and we are continuing to add layers of interest to our projects with the support of this movement and our own initiative.

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