Over 20 Years of Redwood City Public Library Support
Since 1998 the Redwood City Library Foundation has raised over $3 million to provide funding for important library programs.
Our Mission
Our mission is to support the Redwood City Library in cultivating literacy, life-long learning, and community connections.
Our Vision
We envision a community where everyone has access to information, knowledge and technology.
The Foundation is a not-for-profit organization 501(c)(3) established in 1998 and governed by a volunteer board of directors. A professional staff raises and administers gifts and ensures the effectiveness of funded programs.
Working with individual, foundation, and corporate donors, the Foundation acts as the “fundraising arm” of the library. We solicit donations to support specific services, improvements, collections and programs. We work with the Library to identify the best way donors’ gifts can enhance the Library and meet the ever changing needs of the community.
Help Aldo and Others Prepare for Distance Learning
For more than 20 years, the Redwood City Library Foundation has been funding Redwood City’s Public Libraries to help cultivate literacy, life-long learning, and community connections. Students like Aldo in the Familias Unidas program (pictured here) are better prepared for distance education thanks to your donations to the Redwood City Library Foundation.
To ensure our libraries are supported for today and tomorrow, the Foundation has set up a Resiliency Fund. Donating to the Library’s Resiliency Fund makes an immediate impact in the lives of adults and children in our community and ensures that library programs and resources continue, despite library doors being closed.
Hotspot Update
When COVID-19 isolation was just beginning, we asked you to donate to support the Bridging the Digital Divide program, providing WiFi hotspots to students and families without internet access at home.
An update:
In addition to the original 135 WiFi hotspots, the Library purchased 100 new devices and distributed them to students over the summer in response to requests from community partners, including Project READ, Familias Unidas, Peninsula College Fund, Canada College Upward Scholars, and Casa Circulo Cultural. Chromebooks and iPads have also been loaned to Familias Unidas and Project READ families.
Hotspots are currently available for three-week checkouts from the Downtown Library’s curbside pickup service. Call 650-780-7018, ext. 4, or email rcplcurbside@redwoodcity.org to reserve a device for curbside checkout.
Thank you to all our donors who help make this possible.
Newsletter Update
The Fall Newsletter will be coming to you this week. You can also use the link below to access a printable PDF of the newsletter.
Programs We Support
We provide funding for resources, programs and services that take our library system to a new level of excellence.
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