Multiply Your Giving and Honor Others with Gifts to the Library Foundation
The library’s Between Friends Gift Shop staff and library volunteers just completed another successful Holiday Store for Kids at six library branches. Hundreds of children and young teens got to shop for low-cost gift items to give to others this holiday season.
The giving multiplies, too: Proceeds from the annual store will help support the popular Summer Reading Program in 2020, which inspired 11,685 young readers this year.
If you’re considering a gift for someone special this season, and would like to multiply the impact of that gift, consider one of these ideas offered through the Library Foundation. For details visit foundation.thelibrary.org, or call 616-0586.
- Welcome a new grandchild into the world, honor a favorite teacher, friend or co-worker. For $25, a new book will be placed in the library's collection. We will attempt to purchase a book within your designated genre or topic. A bookplate will be placed inside, inscribed with the donor's name and the person or event honored. An acknowledgement will be sent to the honoree or their family that you have added a new book and bookplate to the library's collection for them and others to enjoy.
- You can join the Help-A-Librarian campaign with any gift amount towards the goal. It’s an opportunity to directly impact something – or someone -- you care about at your favorite library branch. Private gifts and grants are crucial to help stretch property tax support across the 10 libraries, Mobile Library and 24-hour library kiosk, so the Foundation invites you to help a librarian fund a project. Periodically, librarians submit projects they need at their branches. Projects are posted online at foundation.thelibrary.org for six weeks, or until they’re funded. (If the project isn’t fully funded, the branch still benefits from your gift.)
Here are the current projects: Games and puzzles for children and teens at the Library Station, $369. Magna-Tiles, 3D magnetic building tiles that help kids develop fine motor skills, Library Center, $120. Reversible, magnetic, mobile marker board easel for patron meetings and programs, Republic Branch, $350.
These and other Library Foundation opportunities are a thoughtful way to honor others and personally help provide the vibrant and cutting-edge library you enjoy year-round.
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