Making Free Meals Easier to Find
How TechSoup and Digicorp Rebuilt Range for Faster, Smarter Resource Discovery

For millions of children across the U.S., access to free meals becomes harder when school is not in session. Meal programs are available at thousands of locations, but finding the right site at the right time and near the user’s location can still be difficult.

Range, created by TechSoup, was built to close this discovery gap. The original Range app suffered from slow load times and cluttered maps, making it difficult for families to find meals quickly.

TechSoup partnered with Digicorp to rebuild Range as Range 2.0, a modern web application designed to work across phones, tablets, and computers. Digicorp reengineered the platform around intelligent search and a cleaner map experience. Hybrid location search, smart filters, map clustering, live location support, and AI-generated summaries help users move from searching to finding relevant resources in seconds.

With 43,687 meal sites represented across the U.S., Range 2.0 turns a large volume of
location data into something far more useful: a clear path to the nearest available meal.

When schools close for summer, millions of children lose access to the meals they receive during the school year. Free meal programs continue to operate in communities across the country, but knowing where and when those meals are available is not always easy, especially when users are searching across thousands of locations, counties, and states.

For families and the trusted adults helping them, including librarians, youth workers, clergy, and social workers, the experience needed to answer simple questions quickly: Where is the nearest meal site? Is it open today? What time does it serve meals? What other locations are available nearby?

The original Range app helped address this need, but the growing volume of meal site data and evolving user expectations called for a more flexible and scalable experience. Three challenges stood out:

• Difficult Resource Discovery: Families needed a simple way to search a large network of meal sites without having to navigate scattered information from multiple sources.
• Map Clutter: Showing thousands of individual locations on a map made the experience hard to read. Users needed a clear view of coverage without being overwhelmed by individual markers.
• Performance and Scalability: As the platform handled larger datasets and more complex search and map operations, speed became critical. A search that took several seconds to return results created friction for people looking for an immediate resource.

Range needed to evolve from a location finder into a faster, smarter, and more accessible resource discovery platform. That is where Digicorp came in.