Thank you for your support of the Santa Clara City Library Foundation and Friends throughout 2024! We are grateful for your book donations, book purchases and the programs you have participated in, like Summer Adventure and Comic Con. Thank you! Tax dollars enable the very existence of the library, but philanthropic support from donors …
It’s 2024! And it’s New Year’s resolution time. The Library and the Foundation and Friends are here to help you get your stuff a little more organized and to put your finances in better shape. Read on to find out how! Cleaning off your bookshelves If you’re making room on your shelves or wherever you …
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When you are supporting your library, you’re supporting your community. You’re supporting a place for children to learn to read. You’re supporting a place where new immigrants can come to make friends and learn English. You’re supporting a place where kids can get extra STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) lessons. You’re supporting a …
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You want more people to know how to read Comic Con is fun! Summer Adventure helps keep you and your children active while school is out. You’ve been learning how to eat healthier with the Healthy You, Healthy Me cooking series. Your student is learning about science in the library’s STEAM Labs. The bookmobile visited …
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This is a chart of the overall places the Foundation and Friends helped out The Santa Clara City Library during the last fiscal year (July 2022 – June 2023). Your much-needed donations will help ensure that families and kids get the literacy and education support they need during the next calendar year. Not to mention …
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A couple of days before Christmas is *maybe* not the best time to talk about healthy eating… but it is a way the Foundation and Friends has supported The Santa Clara City Library this year. There were a series of classes throughout the last two months, sponsored by Kaiser Permanente and the Foundation and Friends …
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The Santa Clara City Library – your public library – is dedicated to getting you the information you need when you need it. That can be in the form of the digital library, where you get free access to magazines and newspapers from across the country. Or the librarians will help you research what you’re …
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If you regularly donate to the Foundation and Friends, consider setting up a monthly donation. You can automatically set up a monthly charge on your credit card. Then, instead of making a lump sum donation at the end of the year, it spreads out the expenses for you. And it helps us because we have …
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California is an amazing place. Our state parks cover all kinds of terrain. This photo is of nearby Castle Rock State Park, but there are so many more. You can go all the way north to Pelican State Beach, or to the very south to see Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. But you have to pay …
Teens in Silicon Valley have so much potential, but opportunity isn’t necessarily equally distributed. The Santa Clara City Library Foundation and Friends and the Library worked together to give two groups of teens internship opportunities at the library. Not only did these internships give teens an opportunity to earn money and have jobs. It …
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