Category: Fundraising

Are you busy on Feb 27th?

We’ve been talking about the upcoming Lollapalooza a lot around here! It’s coming up soon – on Februrary 27. However, as we’ve been talking to people, some of them are busy that weekend. They still want to support the library, but they can’t come to the event. What to do? Well, it’s more fun if …

Help expand our community of life-long learners

You’ve helped make 2015 an amazing year at the Santa Clara City Library. We celebrated Northside Library’s first year and Mission Library’s 60th! The library hosted over 300 programs and circulated almost 2.5 million items. None of that would have happened without you. Your donation to the Santa Clara City Library Foundation & Friends will continue to make …

Year-end donations

It is year-end donation season! Your donation to the Santa Clara City Library Foundation & Friends helps make the library a center of life-long learning. Your gift at any level will be appreciated! A gift of $200 could buy a Kindle filled with classic titles and popular genres. Your gift of $500 could pay for laptops to support …

Thank you!!!!

A HUGE thank you to everyone who donated yesterday during Giving Tuesday! We wouldn’t exist without your generosity. Giving Tuesday is just one component of our year-end donation drive. Your donations help us provide all kinds of programs and supplies to the library throughout the year. So if you didn’t get a chance to donate …

It’s #GivingTuesday!!

We’ve been highlighting many of the wonderful things that the Foundation & Friends helps the Santa Clara City Library do, from computer classes to printing our English learner essays and stories to teen councils and more! Your donations pay for other things too, like: graphic novels new DVDs language learning books With your donations, we can keep the Santa …

Giving Tuesday: Computer Classes

The Santa Clara City Library is creating a community of life-long learners in Silicon Valley. One of the ways we do that is through computer classes. We have computer classes at all levels – from how-to-use-Word tutorials up through learning how to actually program a computer. The above photo is a session at the library …