Tag: #GivingTuesday

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 …

Giving Tuesday: Summer Reading

The Summer Reading Challenge is one of our most popular programs. Each year, thousands of people sign up and thousands of people finish the program! Almost 6000 children, teenagers, and adults signed up in 2015, and they read an average of 17 books. That’s over 52,000 books read over the summer! Summer reading programs help …

Giving Tuesday: Teen Council

Teenagers are notorious for being disengaged and uninterested in their communities. In our experience, that’s an incorrect stereotype. The Santa Clara City Library has not one, but two teen councils – groups of teenagers who advise the library on what kind of programs would appeal to teenagers but when they should hold those programs. Sometimes, …

Giving Tuesday: In Our Own Words

The Mission Library is correctly called the Mission Library and Family Reading Center. They drive the Read Santa Clara program, which works with adults and families in Santa Clara to become better readers. The winners of the annual writing contest (which is part of Read Santa Clara) are published in In Our Own Words. To …