Programs

  • Program 1 [2018]

    Library Support:Friends has an annual direct support program that funds various library programs, resources and equipment. As a community foundation, Friends awards grants that sponsor instructive, innovative and informative free programs and services and are open to everyone across San Francisco such as One City One Book, the Summer Reading Program, Tricycle Music Festival, and the publication of At the Library, a free newsletter of activities at the Main library and the 27 branches. These grants respond to a variety of community needs from educational programs for children, youth, and adults, to unique neighborhood projects at the branches and to museum-quality literary arts, exhibits both in the Main Library and branches. Grants also support library staff development and other library projects featured in The Mix teen space, The Bridge center for readers, the Stegner Environmental Center, the James C. Hormel LGBT Center, the Chinese and African-American Center. Annual innovation grants are made to inspire the Library to pilot projects and/or programs that if successful, are often expanded system wide.Through Friends, community members express their support and aspirations for the Library as: - Persuasive Advocates committed to a strong and responsive Library with reliable public funding. - Engaged Champions advancing the Library's mission for community literacy and expansive free resources and opportunities for everyone.- Generous Investors bridging the funding gap between what the city provides and the cost of additional programs, resources and services that San Franciscans want and need.
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    Dates
    Jul 1, 2017 – Jun 30, 2018
    Source
    990
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    No populations provided
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    $1.2M

  • Program 2 [2018]

    Community Book Program: Through ongoing efforts to support the library, Friends connects readers with books and authors. Each year, through its Community Book Program, Friends takes in over 1,000,000 donated books and media, which it in turn resells to the public through two bookstores, online sales and a number of specialty book sales (including some of the largest book sales on the West Coast). The Library also selectively acquires rare books from Friends that enhance the Library's collections. Many books are also donated to schools and other non-profit organizations. In addition, Friends hosts special events for its members with well-known authors, and other special events such as Poets 11 showcasing poets in every San Francisco neighborhood. In addition, Friends hosts a twice a year after-hours event for its members in a branch library with a special program focus for each event.This fiscal year, Friends reengineered what has been known as Books Operations into the Community Book Program embracing its activities more accurately and fueling its growth as a valuable community asset that supports the Library's mission for literacy and literary engagement. CPB's four fundamental goals balance literacy and a national model for environmental responsibility. These goals are to: - Increase access to low-cost books and media through multiple venues of convenience and affordability - Redirect free books from the traditional market to underserved and low-income children and families- Promote literary engagement through free literary activities - Keep more than one million books and media out of landfill and recycling plants each year.
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    Dates
    Jul 1, 2017 – Jun 30, 2018
    Source
    990
    No causes provided
    No populations provided
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    $1.3M

  • Program 3 [2018]

    Advocacy:Friends continues the tradition of active and vocal support to ensure excellence in library services for all users. Friends' long and successful track record includes its critical role in passing four ballot measures over the last 30 years. Through its advocacy efforts, Friends helped pass a $106 million bond measure to build and refurbish 24 neighborhood branch libraries city-wide (2000, Prop A), championing the Library Preservation Fund, ensuring increased library hours, services and budget (1994, Prop E); spearheading the legislative campaign to build a $109.5 million new Main Library (1988, Prop A) and securing over $9.7 million in state funding. Most recently, Friends helped pass a measure that will bring in over $1.2 billion to the library by renewing the Library Preservation Fund (2007, Prop D). We continue to work with elected officials, community groups and the library administration to ensure a premier library system for San Francisco.
    Geographies
    Not indicated
    Dates
    Jul 1, 2017 – Jun 30, 2018
    Source
    990
    No causes provided
    No populations provided
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    $245.5K