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If you have noticed that the city's Little Libraries look much improved and the contents regularly restocked, you are correct. Thanks to the efforts of FAL volunteer Stephen Johnson, all of the city's Little Libraries have been repaired and refurbished to make them water tight and
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The LA Times recounts the vision of Katia Padilla who grew up in Mexico and loved to read, but books were too expensive. She dreamed, “I had a library all for myself.” She now lives in Chula Vista and has placed two little free libraries in front of her house.
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Bransten Lecture for the Fine Arts Museum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD9G9uo8KDM Blog on FAMSF website: https://legionofhonor.famsf.org/Wangechi-Mutu_Q-and-A Video: Wangechi Mutu: I Am Speaking, Are You Listening?”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4j0u9x1j2o&t=3s
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Matching gifts are used by many Bay Area companies to promote philanthropic giving from their employees. Gifts from employees' spouses and retirees may also qualify for a match. Your company may also offer a volunteer grant program in which companies provide monetary donations to organizations where employees volunteer regularly.
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An unexpected award arrived in the mail for FAL recently. Each year Girls Inc. of the Island City selects Alameda organizations and individuals who have gone above and beyond to support the empowerment of girls and to inspire them to be strong, smart, and bold. This year the Friends of
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On July 20th, the Friends of the Alameda Free Library was joined by Alia Volz, a San Francisco native and author of the memoir Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020), winner of the Golden Poppy Award for Nonfiction from the California
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The ARTSFUND grants program was established to assist nonprofit arts organizations throughout the county of Alameda and is managed by the Office of the Alameda County Arts Commission under the leadership of Melissa Wilk, Alameda County Auditor-Controller/Clerk-Recorder and the members of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors. These funds
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On June 14th, the Friends were joined by art docent Avril Angevine for a presentation on the work of Dorothea Lange, who produced an astonishing body of photographic work in a career that lasted from the 1920s, when she ran the most successful portrait studio in San Francisco, to her
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On June 9th, George Takei - a social justice activist, social media superstar, Grammy-nominated recording artist, New York Times bestselling author, and pioneering actor whose career has spanned six decades - joined the Friends of the Alameda Free Library to discuss They Called Us Enemy, his firsthand account of the
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On May 26, 2021, the Friends of the Alameda Free Library was joined by Francesca Lia Block, MFA, who has authored more than twenty-five books of fiction, non-fiction, short stories, and poetry and has written screenplay adaptations of her work. Ms. Block’s talk centered on her writing process, how
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Registration for the 2021 Summer Reading Program is now open and everyone, from birth to adults, can join in the fun. Participants may register online at alamedafree.beanstack.org. Registrants can participate from home, on a mobile device, or while on vacation. This year prizes include ice cream cones from
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President Biden has proposed massive legislation to rebuild our infrastructure and reshape the economy. Unfortunately, the legislation ignores the critical need for funding to build and modernize public libraries. A new bill, Build America’s Libraries Act, does just that. It has bipartisan support and would provide funding to construct