A special thank you to our sponsor this year, KeyPoint Credit Union, who is giving us $15,000 this year to pay for programs, prizes, and publicity. They had originally given us $10,000 to help, but after hearing about all the great ideas from Library Staff about providing top notch summer reading, they just added an …
The Santa Clara City Library Foundation & Friends just received a large donation from Ray Edinger to rename the Central Park Library’s Cedar Community Room in honor of his wife, Margie Edinger, who passed away in April. Ray and Margie were 57-year residents of Santa Clara, and have done much to help Santa Clara. Mr. …
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The Foundation funded a number of events for February focus around helping people to find a job. Adult librarian Mary Boyle reports on yesterday’s event. “Today first, Find a Job in February event, Resumes That Get the Interview was a big success. I wish you could have been there to hear the questions and presentation with Professional Career Coach …
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The Santa Clara City Library Foundation and Friends presented its 2012 “Corporate Partnership Awards” to Kaiser Permanante, Keypoint Credit Union, the Mission City Community Fund, Texas Instruments, Santa Clara Rotary, and Barnes and Noble, who together donated almost $40,000 to support programs at the library for wellness, summer reading, children’s and adult literacy, employment, math …
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[youtube_sc url=”2WrFprUeB8w” autohide=”1″ fs=”1″ hd=”1″] Santa Clara City Library’s Summer Reading program involves over 3000 kids and teens who read over 50,000 books. Hear from them and their parents about why they like summer reading. The Foundation, all the children, young adults, staff, and community would like to extend thanks to the funders of Summer …
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Volunteers of the Santa Clara Library Foundation & Friends at the annual volunteer recognition event. On Saturday, April 28th, the Santa Clara Library held a ceremony to honor all of the volunteers who work in the library, providing valuable services from the children’s department through adult literacy. Among those honored were many of the volunteers …
At our March, 2012 Chocolate Party, over $25,000 earned from book sales in the store in the lobby of Central library and from the monthly Saturday book sales was granted out for Library projects. Patrons will benefit from an expanded Large Print and Non-Fiction collections, portable scanners at the Tech Center and Heritage Pavilion, the …
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A special thank you to Las Madres neighborhood playgroups of the Peninsula and Santa Clara County for their gift of $3000 for the new “Family Place” area in the children’s department of the Central Park Library. The gift will pay for a play kitchen for imaginative play, nonfiction books on parents, and educational toys and …
Volunteers of the Beautiful Foundation and the teen group “In Our Unity” (IOU) raised $6,000 to invest in resources for Korean-American children, adults, and families at the Santa Clara City Library. The funds will go to purchase materials for children, many of whom were born in the U.S., who want to learn more about the …
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The Foundation & Friends is able to make great things happen at the Library due to the kindness of our many donors and the work of our volunteers. Listed below are a few of our donors who gave generously during our 2008–2009 fiscal year. Corporate & Organizational Sponsors Kaiser Permanente: $25,000 contribution for the Health …