Welcome Readers!
The Fairfax Library Foundation is a private, nonprofit corporation
committed to providing supplementary support to the Fairfax
County Public Library.
The Foundation, while reinforcing the need for continued and increased public support for the library, serves as a catalyst for attracting private funding from individuals, businesses, organizations, Friends groups and foundations to enhance library services for our community.
Since 1994, the Foundation has made enormous strides toward the enhancement of your library. The generosity of individuals, businesses and other organizations allowed us to enhance the collection and support numerous successful initiatives. For example:
- Library Literacy Outreach Programs for Preschool Age Children
- Renowned Author Presentations
- Recorded and Foreign Language Collections
- The Friends Scholarship Fund
- All Fairfax Reads
- Summer Reading Program
Under the leadership of past chair, Joan M. Kane, the Foundation partnered
with the Library and Signature Sponsor, Verizon to implement Art
in the Pages, the community’s first ever public art
sculpture project. Large open book statues, transformed into vibrant
works of art, are displayed at library
branches and other locations.
We need your help to meet the growing demands of our 500,000 registered
library card holders. Last year, library customers made over 3 million
visits to our branches and more than 3.7 million visits to the library
Web site. I sincerely hope that we can count on your continued
generosity since considerably less than 1¢ of each local tax dollar
is used for the Fairfax County Public Library. Private cash donations,
in-kind gifts, or memorial gifts are critically needed.
We’re asking you to continue your level of support and if you can give more, please do. If you have not yet contributed, please consider the Fairfax Library Foundation in your charitable gifting. There are no minimums and of course no maximums as all gifts are appreciated. We will recognize you in our annual report and on our Web site. However, the best reward is that feeling you get upon entering a library branch when you can say, “I am a member of the community of givers that helps maintain one of the finest systems in the country,” . . . and that’s a fact!
Thanks again for your ongoing support.
Best,
Alvah T. Beander
Chair, Board of Directors