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Funding Focus Areas
Northland Library is a true community center, offering free public access to resources that inspire, educate, and entertain. It’s also a place for groups from book groups to community groups to meet, talk, and learn, as well as providing public programs from tax assistance to computer training, from preschool storytime to tutoring. Northland Library’s basic services — staff, building and equipment maintenance, and core collections and technology, and core programs — are provided by funding from the five municipalities it serves: Bradford Woods, Franklin Park, Marshall, McCandless, and Ross in the northern suburbs of Pittsburgh. In addition, Northland is a state-aided library and receives funding from the Allegheny Regional Asset District tax. What is often not covered are new and unique programs, large capital expenditures, and special books and activities that help make the Library more than "a place to get books." Donations to the Annual Fund help the Library create innovative new opportunities for learning and growth, and remain as the second largest library of Allegheny County. During the coming year, the Foundation will raise funds through the Annual Fund to support the Library's commitment to providing enhanced opportunities for literacy, reading enrichment, and lifelong learning. You can support these efforts by donating to the Annual Fund. In the coming year, the Annual Fund will support these funding focus areas:
Reading Enrichment: Early Childhood LiteracyChildren need to be exposed to books at a very early age - research has repeatedly demonstrated Reading Enrichment: BestsellersNon-reservable collection of popular fiction and nonfiction books: In 2006, Northland Public Library loaned out over one million items from its collection. And if you’ve been one of those people on the long waiting list for a new, popular bestseller, you know that it can sometimes be two months or more before the books is finally available. To reduce your wait time the Foundation provides funds to the Library to purchase additional copies that can't be put on reserve, but are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Help us to increase our collection of popularly sought books: Cost: $10,000. Download a Bestseller Donor Card. Programs and Services for YouthTutor.com: Thousands of libraries use Tutor.com’s Live Homework Help every day to connect students in the communities they serve to real, expert tutors who are professional educators, online. Students sit quietly at their monitors at home, or at the Library, as tutors -- via instant messages -- show them how to solve problems. Live Homework Help is a subscription-based, one-to-one online tutoring service connecting kids to qualified tutors from any Internet-enabled computer. English and Spanish-speaking tutors are available. Kids, parents and teachers connect to online tutors through the Library’s web site. Students can use Live Homework Help as often as they need help. Connecting to an expert tutor is fast and easy. Students do the following:
We’d like to bring this program to students in our community so that they can get the one-to-one help they need. Annual cost: $16,000. Programs for AdultsAdults in transition – programming for Baby Boomers: A number of libraries and agencies throughout the country are focusing on an important segment of our population, the “baby boomers” who are approaching retirement age. Boomers are, for the most part, active older adults who are thinking about retiring, re-careering, switching from full-time to part-time work, finding meaningful service activities within their communities, or looking forward to learning new skills and developing new interests. Northland is spearheading an effort to serve and attract this age group by offering special programming and information that could be helpful to them in an important transition in their lives. Your donation helps us to bring speakers, trainers and programs to Northland. Cultural & Literary ProgramsThree Rivers Storytelling Festival: The Festival provides extraordinary inter-generational, multi-cultural storytelling activities for children, families, and adults! Storytelling promotes literacy and reading readiness skills among all ages and is key to literacy. (Literacy is not just reading words on a page. Literacy includes understanding their meanings, references and context.) Storytelling is probably the oldest performing art form. It deals with conflicts and resolutions that reflect the universal dreams, hopes and realities of the lives of diverse peoples who originally told the story. Consider becoming a sponsor of the two day event. Capital Needs
An indoor material return on the Upper level: If you use the upper entrance to the Library, you probably know that you have to place books you’re returning in the outside box, or go down to the first level to use the interior return. This can be difficult especially for our disabled or senior cardholders. Won’t you help us to make life a little easier for everyone?
New flag pole and installation: As a symbol of our nation’s freedom, good citizenship and true patriotism, every school flies our nation’s flag. But Northland doesn’t have a flagpole, and we’d like to put one up by Flag Day (June 14). Won’t you help us celebrate American freedom?
Wireless microphones for meeting rooms: Each year, dozens of community groups use the library for meetings. The library also presents many speakers, authors, and events. We’d like to make it a little easier for the speaker to be heard, but need wireless microphones to do it! (If you were here for the James Earl Jones storytelling event, you know how much we need a new microphone system!)
Benches for the upper and lower lobbies: Sometimes, there just isn’t enough seating for everyone at the Library. And sometimes, people are waiting for rides in the Lobby, and there’s no place to sit. Help us to make everyone a little more comfortable.
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