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March Newsletter: Double Your Impact during our Spring Forward Campaign
We announce our Spring Forward matching gift campaign; We encourage you to sponsor a gala table before they sell out; We celebrate a larger venue for this year’s OBOB author talk; We invite you to celebrate diversity at a multicultural celebration; We promote a Canyon Theater author talk with Stephen Graham Jones; We show solidarity with a fire fund grant to the Library Foundation of LA; We search for our first Director of Annual Giving; We catch you up on all the library news you may have missed.
We are hiring! Apply for our Director of Annual Giving position
The Boulder Library Foundation has an immediate opening for its first-ever Director of Annual Giving to be responsible for developing, implementing, and cultivating the Library Foundation’s annual giving program in accordance with the Library Foundation’s fundraising plan, including a growing annual fund program.
February Newsletter: 2025 Boulder Library Gala, new grants for the library & more
In this month’s newsletter: We announce “The 2025 Boulder Library Gala: Remarkable Night Creatures”; We issue 11 new grants totaling $394,000 to Boulder Public Library District; We launch a search for our first Director of Annual Giving; We invite you to a free author talk we’re sponsoring in the Canyon Theater; We promote the search for applicants to the Library District Board of Trustees; We encourage you to participate in One Book One Boulder; We catch you up on all the library news you may have missed.
January Newsletter: An impactful 2024 & what’s to come
In this month’s newsletter we review and thank you for a very successful 50th anniversary year; we celebrate the close of our NoBo Capital Campaign; we encourage you to become a One Book One Boulder Circle Leader; we promote our library’s wonderful volunteer opportunities; we recommend an illustrator talk in the Canyon Theater this Saturday; we announce a new name for the cafe at Boulder Main; we catch you up on all the library news you may have missed!
December newsletter: Most popular library books of 2024; New board member; Holiday gift idea & More
In this month’s newsletter we reveal Boulder Public Library’s most popular books of 2024, we encourage you to make a year-end gift to support your library, we welcome a new member to our board of directors, we promote our merch as a great holiday gift for library lovers, we get excited for this year’s Winter Reading Challenge, we invite you to vote on a new name for the cafe at Boulder Main and we catch you up on all the library news you may have missed.
November newsletter: 50 years of philanthropy & what’s next; Library promises delivered; A BoulderReads! tutor remembered & More
We celebrate 50 years of support for the Boulder Public Library; We summarize what our donors supported this year, and what’s on tap for 2025; We bring you the KGNU interview with Bonnie Garmus, recorded live at our gala; We outline all the promises that our new Library District has delivered this year; We share the story of a gift memorializing a BoulderReads! tutor; We catch you up on all the library news you may have missed.
KGNU Radio Book Club featuring Bonnie Garmus from the 50 Year Gala
Listen to the Radio Book Club interview recorded on our gala stage, and broadcasted on KGNU on October 24, between Bonnie Garmus and Maeve Conran!
October newsletter: Celebrating gala success; Carnegie Library re-opening; Doris Hass Legacy Circle & More
In this month’s newsletter: We celebrate a tremendous 50 Year Gala with Bonnie Garmus, and share photos; We announce that Carnegie Library for Local History has re-opened for walk-ins; We pay tribute to our founder by renaming our planned giving program in her honor; We share the story of a gift memorializing the life of a library lover; We welcome Tina Ottersberg to our foundation’s Board of Directors; We catch you up on all the library news you may have missed.
August newsletter: Library board retreat, Seeking Gala Volunteers, Signed book pre-sale & More
In this month’s newsletter: Highlights from the annual Boulder Public Library District board retreat; volunteer opportunities and signed book pre-sale at our sold-out gala; our Legacy Circle planned giving program for Legacy Giving Month; the library’s Democracy Series leading up to the 2024 election; artists to answer the library’s open call for art exhibitions; library news you may have missed.
Seeking Gala Volunteers: Opportunities available Sept. 25-27th
Seeking Gala support volunteers September 25-27.
