Here are some ways you can help.Donations in any amount are greatly appreciated. Start with $8 for a Baby Kit. Help us reach our community with these successful and proven outreach programs. You can make a difference in the lives of those in our community. You can help us to develop a new generation of readers.
Donate online with your credit card and receive and immediate receipt and verification of your gift. Please give today. Donations to the James V. Brown Library are tax deductible.
Yes, I want to support the Books & Babies Program!
The program gives to the parents of every newborn a
Baby Kit (pictured at right). These colorful, durable Baby Kits include a free board book, brochures on the importance of reading with and to children, a stuffed animal, and
Baby’s first library card.This open invitation to read invites parents to use the library early and often especially during the critical 0-3 years when half of a child’s brain development occurs.
Each Baby Kit costs $8.
For this small investment you can help us let all parents know about the free resources available. These include: online storybooks, games and puzzles to help children learn essential reading skills, books for all ages, craft programs, Family Place workshops, storytimes, and parenting books, videos and magazines. We are asking you to help us continue this important program in the face of decreased library funding.
Your gift of $120 will sponsor 15 Baby Kits. An $80 gift will give 10 infants an invitation to lifelong learning. $200 will help us reach 25 babies. Thank you for your consideration and please support this important service.
Letter about program
| Donate by mail Yes, I want to Adopt a Summer Reader!
Every fall our teachers must spend a month or longer re-teaching lessons from the previous school year. This is known as the ‘summer slide.’ Experts agree that children who read during the summer gain reading skills, while those who do not, slide backward.One way to avoid the summer slide is for a child to participate in the Library’s free and fantastic summer reading program, which encourages reading, family interaction, and school readiness. This year’s theme is ‘Catch the Reading Bug.’
We need your help to keep this important program going and growing.
Please consider adopting a summer reader for just $10, or select another level of support:
Adopt 5 Readers……………$50.00
Adopt 10 Readers………….$100.00
Adopt 15 Readers………….$150.00
Adopt 20 Readers…………..$200.00
| Donate by mail | Thank you for your support
of Summer Reading!!Tale of the Month Club
The James V. Brown Library is pleased to present a new way to support the library and nurture the reading skills children need to succeed in school.- In 2007 a report released by the National Endowment for the Arts revealed a silent crisis growing in this country. To Read or Not to Read documented the dangerous trend away from books and reading in the U.S. and projected the impact to be far broader than an educational decline.
- American 15 year olds rank 15th in the world in reading scores. Unless this ranking is improved our economy will suffer.
- The single best place to begin work to reverse this decline in reading is with preschool children.
- The 0-3 years are the time when children experience 70% of their brain growth.
Your monthly donation of $25 will fund the addition of a highly quality picture or early reader book for the library’s collection.Each book will have the attached bookplate recognizing your gift. In December you will receive a letter acknowledging your $300 fully tax deductible contribution to the James V. Brown Library.
We can bill your credit card monthly or you may select another payment option.
Each book in our children’s library goes out an average ten times each year so your 12 books will reach 120 preschoolers.
Tale of the Month gift cards acknowledgments are available for donors using this program for holiday gifts or for other recognitions.
or call Development Coordinator, Robin Glossner 326-0536, ext. 135 to join the battle against illiteracy.
Memorial Book or Book Endowment
The Memorial Book Program is a lasting way to honor the memory of friends and loved ones.
* Donations to the Memorial Book program allow the library to select books in an area that reflects the interests of the person being remembered or to add needed titles to areas such as animals, history, gardening and art or nature.
* Memorial Books for the children’s room provide beautifully illustrated children’s books that will delight generations of children.
* The inside cover of each book purchased with your donation will contain a special book plate along with an inscription of the honoree’s name and the name of the donor.
* In addition to the book plate an announcement of your gift will be sent to the family informing them of your thoughtfulness. As a donor you will receive a letter of thanks as well as a receipt for your tax-exempt contribution to the library. When you pay tribute to a departed friend or loved one through a book, you honor the past and touch the future.
Donations in any amount are gratefully accepted.
Book Endowment
* Donations of $250 create perpetual Book Endowments. Each year, forever.
A book will be added to the collection with a memorial bookplate.
Buy a Brick & Support the new Children's Wing
It takes a community to build a library.Make a lasting impression.
Donors contributing $100 can sponsor an engraved paver on the walkway leading to the garden area behind the new children’s wing or on the walk bordering the new facility. The purchase of memorial or honor bricks provides a way to have your name literally “set in stone” for a lifetime.
Cost per finished 4x8x2 inch brick paver is $100. This price includes 3 lines of text in large print. Donors purchasing 10 or more bricks will also be listed on the Donor Wall inside of the new wing. Buy them for your children or grandchildren, friends and loved ones! Include text for bricks on form (up to 14 characters, including spaces, on each of three lines).
or | Donate by MailEndow a Collection at the James V. Brown Library
When you endow an entire subject collection at the James V. Brown Library, for a donation of $10,000, you will be recognized with a bookplate in each book of the collection, forever.Named collections include:
| Life Stories World War II Culinary Cats |
Dogs Science Teacher Resource Area American History |
Religion Music |
And many more, both in the new Children’s Wing and the Vintage Collection.
There are still many collection endowment opportunities available. Please contact Development Coordinator, Robin Glossner or Director Janice Trapp at (570) 326-0536 to explore this opportunity to help the library, ensure we remain current in areas of your interest, and recognize you and your family for the future.
| James V. Brown Library's
Century Fund |
We ask you to consider making a difference for the long term future of the James V. Brown Library by considering a planned gift or bequest. Planned giving refers to the process of making a charitable gift of estate assets to the James V. Brown Library. There are many options available to you in making a planned gift. Such as, Charitable Remainder Trust, Charitable Lead Trust Contingent, Individual Retirement Accounts, IPO's, Options and Restricted Stock, Gifts of Tangible Personal Property,
Gifts
of Real Estate, Gifts of Life Insurance, Gifts of Stock. To learn more about
Planned Giving or memorial donations, please contact
Janice Trapp or Development Coordinator Robin Glossner at
the Library - 570-326-0536.Why Give?
- To make a difference in the lives of those who turn to the library for lifelong learning, self-help, personal enrichment, access to materials beyond their personal ability to buy.
- For family programs that build early literacy skills and literacy programs that help adults with basic reading skills.
- To support the intellectual freedom of all future generations. A free country needs free and open access to ideas.
- To give back to the James V. Brown Library for what how it helped you or for someone else you know.
- To make a personal statement about the values you hold dear.
- To encourage others to consider their own legacies.
There are many reasons to give. The real answer to "Why Give?" can only be answered by you. Please, know that every gift makes a difference - no matter its size or aim, every gift makes something special happen, right here in our community, right here at the James V. Brown Library.
Please consider making a gift to the James V. Brown Library through direct donations, planned giving or memorial donations.
To learn more about planned giving or memorial donations, or to have a confidential conversation about how to help preserve the library and its menu of services, please contact Janice Trapp or Robin Glossner at 570-326-0536.
Donations to the James V. Brown Library are tax deductible.
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