The Foundation provides vital financial support to the Library to maintain the quality of all its collections and services.

The Belvedere Tiburon Library Foundation is a grassroots organization championing a public library system that meets our community’s needs.

The Foundation is the Library’s fundraising partner, advocating for increased access to literacy and technology since 1992.

Our community-wide projects and private philanthropic events allow the Library to maintain its programs and expand its collections and resources.

Belvedere-tiburon Library Foundation

An independent library system for the 2.5 million residents of Brooklyn and the 5th largest library system in the United States.

Brooklyn Public Library

The Atlanta-Fulton Public Library Foundation is a nonprofit organization focused on education. It is based in Atlanta, GA. It received its nonprofit status in 1989.

The Atlanta-Fulton Public Library Foundation

An organization focused on education. It received its nonprofit status in 2022.

Our place-based approach empowers rural leaders and communities to accelerate educational outcomes for all students by:

- Addressing the program gap found in rural places to ensure students have equitable access to resources
- Building the capacity of rural schools and communities to be data-driven and equity-focused
- Aligning local, regional and national systems to ensure student success

Partners For Rural Impact Inc

(CLP) supports educational attainment, economic development, and cultural enrichment in Pittsburgh.

To Engage our Community in Literacy and Learning   Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh will inspire in the citizens of our region respect and responsibility for life-long learning, citizenship, and civic participation.

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

Library that houses educational programs, enrichment opportunities, and informational resources for Charles Village and throughout Baltimore City.

The mission of the VLP is to promote literacy, cultural awareness, and lifelong learning through access for all ages to information, resources, and educational …programs.  The VLP’s vision is to be a model library, a leader in providing high-quality educational programs, enrichment opportunities, and informational resources in Charles Village and throughout Baltimore City. The VLP will strengthen the surrounding neighborhood by serving as an anchoring institution, a symbol of local pride, and a gathering place for a diverse community. We promote a learning-oriented culture that is friendly, welcoming, and supportive of the success and well-being of every person.

Village Learning Place

Advocates, fundraises, and provides critical support for the San Francisco Public Library.

We raise funds for programs and capital improvements for libraries.  We advocate for public support funding for libraries.  Through sales and donations we place nearly one million books into the hands of readers each year.  We offer a broad range of programs and partnerships to support a literate community.  We help grow new ideas and support an ever-improving library system to meet the changing needs of the community

Friends of the San Francisco Public Library

Dedicated to promoting our Library as an essential institution of our society. Our volunteer members advocate, educate, and raise funds on behalf of the Library, its patron

The Friends of the Seattle Public Library is a non-profit, grassroots organization dedicated to promoting our Library as an essential institution of our society. Our volunteer members advocate, educate, and raise funds on behalf of the Library, its patrons, and the larger Seattle community.

Friends of The Seattle Public Library

Folio is a gathering place for books and the people who love them.

Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum

Dedicated to providing much-needed books to underserved classroom and community libraries.

Access Books is a Los Angeles-based non-profit organization dedicated to providing much-needed books to underserved classroom and community libraries.

Access Books

The Imagination Library of Saline County wants to put a book in the hand of every child in the county. Children in the program will be given a book every month from the first day they are born until they are 5 years old.

Imagination Library of Saline County, Arkansas

The Long Now Foundation is a San Francisco based non-profit that fosters long-term thinking and responsibility through a variety of projects.

The Long Now Foundation

Iowa City Public Library Friends Foundation is a nonprofit organization focused on education. It is based in Iowa City, IA. It received its nonprofit status in 1983.

Iowa City Public Library Friends Foundation

Library and Museum celebrating the community and history of Akwesasne

Akwesasne Library And Cultural Center Inc

Project Gutenberg is an online library of free eBooks.

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related content today.

The mission of Project Gutenberg is simple: To encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks. This mission is, as much as possible, to encourage all those who are interested in making eBooks and helping to give them away.

Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation

Northeast Minneapolis Tool Library is a nonprofit organization focused on education. It is based in Minneapolis, MN. It received its nonprofit status in 2015.

Northeast Minneapolis Tool Library

The BnF's mission is to collect, catalogue, preserve, enrich and communicate the national documentary heritage in France.

Join us to restore, preserve and make available to all our universal heritage  
 
The Bibliothèque nationale de France  (BnF) is France's oldest cultural organization, originating in 1368 as the Royal Library of Charles V. It has grown over the ensuing 650 years into one of the world's largest, most prestigious, and most digitally accessible libraries.  The BnF is a leading custodian of a world heritage. Its encyclopedic collections are unique: all disciplines, whether intellectual, artistic or scientific, are represented in a comprehensive way. 

The BnF preserves over 44 million documents. In addition, the BnF's digital library, Gallica, provides free access to 10 million documents, for people from around the world to use for reading and learning. The BnF strives to provide educational, cultural and social enrichment to all.   

Projects to support 
There is a wide variety of projects to support at the BnF: digitization, acquisition, research activities, scholarships, etc. 
We selected 2 specific projects you may be interested to support:   

- The Breviary of Charles V acquisition 
- Emergency restoration - salle des Vélins 
   
Please, click on the dedicated tabs below to find more information about them. If you wish to find another project to support, feel free to contact us. 

Bibliothèque Nationale de France

A unique cultural reality in Venice where past and present are in continuous relationship. 
Our mission: preserving the future.

About the Foundation

Fondazione Querini Stampalia (FQS)  was established in 1869 by Count Giovanni Querini, the last descendant of the Querini Stampalia family.
It is the only institution in Venice that holds the entire heritage of an ancient and noble Venetian family. It has been serving the community and providing access to knowledge, arts, architecture and history for more than 150 years, in particular thanks to the Library, the Museum and cultural events.
Inside this Renaissance palace you can enjoy important works of art by Giovanni Bellini, Antonio Canova, Pietro Longhi, Giambattista Tiepolo and Canaletto, as well as consult modern and ancient books, the family archives, ancient maps, manuscripts, engravings. The library has become a study centre open at weekends and during many holidays to give students and scholars the opportunity to access the collections and to study in the historical reading rooms.  
The Fondazione is also very active in the field of contemporary art through the project  Conserving the future, that hosted contemporary artists such as Joseph Kosuth, Kiki Smith and Jimmie Durham.  
Finally, the palace itself hosts different architectural layers, where the 16th century building is renovated and reinterpreted through the profound and elegant work of important contemporary architects such as Carlo Scarpa, Mario Botta and Michele De Lucchi.

Fondazione Scientifica Querini Stampalia Onlus

Youth education programming and Library in Mozambique, Africa
 
                                                         

We've been providing free classes in literacy, English, Math, and health to ~150 underserved youth annually for the past 3 years and need your support to continue to serve.

The Moz Library Project operates the first and only public library in a small village in Africa.

Learning how to read and write can change lives. In Mozambique, 47% of the population over 15 years old are unable to read and write. Literacy equips individuals with the ability to access information and engage in critical thinking. Furthermore, literate individuals are more likely to secure better job opportunities, leading to improved economic prospects and poverty reduction. Education also enhances public health awareness, enabling individuals to make health-informed decisions.

By investing in education, you can empower youth in a small village in Africa to build brighter futures.

Courtney Johnson was a Peace Corps volunteer from 2015-2017 and worked as a teacher in Ile, Mozambique. Illiteracy was a known problem but there was an acute lack of resources that prevented the existing institutions from tackling this issue. Some of her students who knew the material verbally, turned in tests with only strings of letters and consonants. In 2015, Courtney began to work with the local government to develop a program that would work alongside the existing education system providing supplemental literacy education to close this achievement gap.

The Library is run by local staff providing employment opportunities to 3 full time and 10 part time staff members.

The 4 Pillars
1) SAFE & HYGENIC SPACE: The Moz Library was built from scratch from 2015 to 2017. The library has to electricity providing the ability to study safely after dark. The library has access to clean water and hygienic indoor & outdoor bathrooms. 
2) PUBLIC RESOURCES: Free and Public access to resources including books, pencils, paper, electricity, and computers.  
3) FREE EDUCATION: The Moz Library offers Free and Public lessons in literacy, English and Math using a simple, replicable, and interactive literacy curriculum that serves a diversity of learning styles and individualized attention. 
4) HEALTH: The Library leverages opportunities to disseminate public health information through classes, murals, and public theater.

The library is in Mozambique, a country which sits on the southeast coastline of Africa sharing a boarder with South Africa to the south and Tanzania to the north. Ile is a medium-small town with a population of approximately 15,000 people. Ile has 5 elementary schools, 1 high school, a soccer field, a hospital, several stores, and an open-air market. The coordinates of the library are 16"02"15"S and 37"10"35"E. 

Help us close the achievement gap!

The Moz Library

The European Review of Books is the magazine of culture and ideas.

The European Review of Books is a magazine of culture and ideas, in print and online, in English and in a writer’s own tongue. We publish book-length issues three times a year, next to digital-only and newsletter-only pieces. In our pages, you’ll find many kinds of writing: travelogue, fiction, profile, parody, poem, come what may. But we champion the essay, because a good essay is the enemy of the airy platitude, the antidote to the measly « opinion ». We’re tired of opinion; Our mission is to thicken the Europe an intellectual atmosphere.

In the spring of 2021, we launched a crowdfunding campaign with future contributors like Ali Smith, Adania Shibli, David Mitchell, and Rem Koolhaas helping to spread the word. We raised a spectacular €94.000 from 852 supporters. With those funds, we commissioned early contributors, created our first issue and built our online platform. Issue One appeared in June 2022, and the print edition (3800 copies) soon sold out.

Soon after, Studio Europa Maastricht became our founding partner, supporting us with a total of €120.000 paid out over three years. This allowed us to start thinking properly about a future for our endeavor. In December of 2022, funding partner Stichting Democratie en Media made a donation of €90.000, and offers continuing organizational support. Issue Two launched in early January of 2023, Issue Three in late April of that same year, and Issue Four in November. ERBs are sold in more than 250 shops in 19 different countries around the world, and in our webshop.

In our first year and a half, we produced important, pathbreaking work by 90+ (paid) contributors with ties to 20+ countries. We continue to build a robust international network of writers, translators, thinkers and readers. With the ERB, we want to create an enduring, independent institution for the European cultural and intellectual sphere – there is a need for it, and an audience. Our venture was covered in Italy (Il Foglio, Corriere della Sera), in Belgium (De Standaard), in Spain (El Confidencial), in the Netherlands (NRC, Trouw), in Ireland (Irish Times), in the UK (Financial Times), in Germany (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Die Welt), in France (Le Monde, Le Grand Continent), in Austria (Die Presse), in the US (n+1) and more. We’ve won three awards so far – two for our design, and one for our writing.

We aim to become a financially sustainable organization within four years, and we project we'll reach that point with about 3500 subscribers, supplemented with income from issue sales and other revenue streams. We need financial help to tide us over to that point: during those years, we need to keep paying our contributors reasonable fees and launch serious marketing efforts to reach a bigger audience. But we also need to explore ways to make our content more accessible (through audio, for example) and to diversify our revenue streams (by publishing books, selling exclusive merchandise, expanding our writing programs for universities) that would secure our sustainability and independence in the future.

We are a stichting: a non-profit under Dutch law.

Stichting European Review of Books

ESCP inspires and educates purpose-driven leaders.

ESCP Business school was founded in 1819, the oldest Business school in the world, ranked among the top 10 best business schools in Europe by the Financial times. The school has chosen to teach Purposeful leadership, open to the world and based on European multiculturalism. The campuses in Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris, Turin and Warsaw are the stepping stones that allow students to experience the European approach to management
Launched by the alumni in 2005, the ESCP Foundation goal is to support the ambitions and the academic excellence of ESCP Business School through different initiatives:
-  Equal opportunities programs and Scholarships
- Research Excellence (Chairs, Professorships & Teaching Innovations)
- Student Experience
- Endowment Fund: The ESCP Foundation is also developing it to prepare and build the future
- Entrepreneurship

s & Professorships)  -  Teaching Innovations & Campus buildings - Influence of ESCP worldwide - The ESCP Foundation is also developing an endowment fund to prepare and build the future. Visit our website:  https://fondation.escp.eu/   Visit the School website:  https://escp.eu/

Fondation ESCP

Village Book Builders Inc is a nonprofit organization focused on education. It is based in Green Bay, WI. It received its nonprofit status in 2018.

We are a non-profit organization EMPOWERING villages around the world to end the cycle of poverty through EDUCATION.
Education plays a big role in the development of a community and BUILDING a library is just the first step towards creating a space dedicated to LEARNING.
We call this HOPE through books. 

We couldn’t do this without the incredible partners and donors that continue to empower youth and change lives. One of the aspects of Village Book Builders is our mentor program.  In this program we help people bring social responsibility in-house by connecting volunteers, students, and working professionals to serve as mentors to the children in developing communities all over the globe. Our annual fundraiser goes towards keeping the mentor programs and the VBB mission alive and every donation will have a major impact!

Village Book Builders Inc

The Bollandist Society is a Jesuit research institute dedicated to the critical study of Greek, Latin, Oriental and vernacular hagiographic literature as well as to the history of the saints and their cults. Founded in the early 17th century this is one of the oldest scientific societies in the world. Our research, study, safeguard and promotion of this unique heritage is possible thanks to our specialized library of 500.000 volumes, that has become an indispensable point of reference in the study of critical hagiography world-wide.

All gifts to the Société des Bollandistes are fully tax deductible when made through the King Baudouin Foundation US.

Bollandist Society

Creative Commons (CC) stewards a universally accessible infrastructure for open knowledge, culture, and collaboration. 

Creative Commons is the global nonprofit organization behind the CC licenses and public domain tools, enabling the free and open distribution of otherwise copyrighted work. We give every person and organization in the world a simple and standardized way to grant copyright permissions for images, music, research, journal articles, educational resources, and cultural artifacts; ensure proper attribution; and allow others to copy, distribute, and make use of those works.

We've come a long way since we first got started in 2001. When Creative Commons was  founded, the internet was a budding universe with high potential, and platforms widely used today like Wikipedia and Google were only just taking off. CC’s founders were keen to ensure that, as the internet continued to grow, safeguards to knowledge, culture, and creativity were firmly in place, and the Creative Commons license suite was born.

Now more than ever, CC recognizes the urgent need for these licenses in advancing Better Sharing, key to preserving our global commons. As we look toward the next 20 years, CC seeks to fearlessly advocate for Open Knowledge to address the many challenges our global community faces today from the Climate Crisis and educational inequalities to the spread of "fake news" and barriers in access to cultural heritage.

Creative Commons

We collect, preserve, and provide access to community media in order to inspire and celebrate everyone's cultural contributions.

Read/Write Library is the only library of its kind in the world and seeks to be a model for other cities to leverage their own media as a tool to recognize their residents' power and expertise in shaping local histories.

Unlike a traditional read-only library, we encourage contributions, whether community newspapers, self-published chapbooks by young poets, or art books by tenured professors, making cultural participation more transparent and accessible. 

Through our public programs and free browsing hours, growing collection of over 6,000 publications, and open source catalog, the library strives to raise the visibility of work produced by Chicagoans of all backgrounds to reveal connective threads across neighborhoods, generations, and cultures and to encourage inquiry into and ownership of the historical record. 

We recognize the contributions that all community members make to co-creating a city and believe that learning to value them plays a vital role in building empathy, community pride, and the ability to see oneself as a change agent.

Read / Write Library Chicago

Cape May County nonprofit dedicated to traditional skills & hands-on learning in nature. Nurturing Curiosity, Growing Community.

**Our Mission: Through nature and hands-on learning we help families develop personally, professionally, and spiritually.**

We strive to provide a social and enriching community to support families and create a new generation of thinkers and doers by providing opportunities to learn traditional skills, art, history, and farming.

We offer free or low-cost classes, clubs, field trip opportunities, social events, a library, and resources to local families. There is always something fun going on at our Learning Center!

*Our goal is to create a community that respects a child’s curiosity, imagination, and love for learning while teaching kids, teens, and adults real world skills they can use for life.*

We yearn to elevate childhood and equip and encourage community families and establish a learning environment that fosters a child’s creativity. With our unique geographical location and proximity to the Coast Guard training center, we also provide a home for homeschooling or non-traditional schooling students as well as transient members of the community.

**Deeply Rooted Values**
Our core values guide every aspect of our work and interactions.

**Creating Community:**
Our gatherings transcend the boundaries of traditional schooling by providing a space where kids, teens, and adults learn hands-on skills not found in a classroom. We provide a space for all students after school, as well as homeschooling and non-traditionally schooled families where students, instructors, and members can connect, forge friendships, and build a robust community that supports each other's educational journeys.

**Exploring Nature:**
Through our clubs and classes we invite families to experience education in its most natural form—immersed in the great outdoors. By learning from nature, children develop an appreciation for the world around them, embracing its beauty and wisdom. By staying connected to nature, teens and adults lay the roots and foundation for personal and spiritual growth.

**Honoring Each Other:**
We celebrate the diversity of all families from public and private schooled, to homeschooling and non-traditionally schooled families, especially with regard to service families that move often. Every family's educational approach is unique, and our community honors these differences, creating a welcoming environment where every perspective is valued.

**Affordability for All:**
We recognize that families who choose alternative schooling paths may have distinct financial considerations. We also acknowledge that learning traditional skills can be expense and out of reach for many. By offering low to no-cost options for all our gatherings, we ensure that families can access enriching experiences without financial constraints.

**Excellence with Heart:**
With a heart-centered approach, we bring excellence to every activity and event we organize. Our commitment to quality education and genuine care for our community shines through in everything we do.

Deeply Rooted Learning Center (Deeply Rooted LC Inc)

We empower animal advocates with research, analysis & strategies that maximize their effectiveness to reduce animal suffering.

We conduct essential research, maintain an online research library, and directly support advocates and organizations in their work to save lives. The range of data we offer helps our movement understand how people think about and respond to advocacy, providing advocates with the best strategies to inspire change for animals.

Our Original Studies are carefully selected, designed, and conducted to provide actionable and insightful data for the animal protection movement. Our research prioritization process helps us identify studies that have a high potential impact for animals, and our commitment to transparency and rigorous methodology ensures that our studies are of the highest quality. Our studies have been covered in hundreds of publications across animal advocacy circles as well as in mainstream media, and have been used by animal advocacy groups worldwide.

The Faunalytics Library is completely free, and houses summaries of over 4,000 peer-reviewed research articles, public opinion surveys, and blog posts offering deep analysis on every animal issue you can think of. It’s the world’s biggest collection of opinion and behavior research about animal issues, and it’s presented with an emphasis on effectiveness, readability, and useability. Sign up for our email alerts and you’ll get weekly or monthly updates on the latest research we cover, delivered straight to your inbox.

Get a comprehensive overview of a particular topic area by exploring our Faunalytics Fundamentals, a series that provides infographics and visualizations of data to help you get informed and stay informed. The Fundamentals series has everything you need to get started or update your knowledge in a familiar area, and the visuals are highly shareable beyond an advocacy audience.

Have a research question that you don’t know how to solve? Want to dive deep into a particular issue but don’t know where to start? Just ask us! Faunalytics’ Office Hours give you the opportunity to connect with us directly and get one-on-one help with research design, strategy, and general knowledge questions. We also engage in select partner projects with advocacy groups.

Faunalytics

Did you know there's more than 1 million books in the Joburg CBD. Let's celebrate that.

Johannesburg, better known as Jozi or Joburg, is best showcased by the vibrant city centre at its heart. The area that residents refer to as “Town” is set apart by the combined bustling of hawkers, cross-continental traders, and white-collar office workers alike.

Between busy public transportation routes and the overall air of Afropolitan excellence, Town has something for everyone. This diverse and energetic part of the city is a prime showcase of the literary and artistic wonders that Joburg has to offer.

The Literary District runs on community support. We send thousands of books, new and used, for free to libraries across South Africa every year. We also work with community organisations that have literacy outreach programmes and donate books to their causes.

With more than 1 million books in the City Library and dozens of booksellers in the nearby blocks, our literary culture flows through the streets. We’re working with the Johannesburg Development Agency through its Our City, Our Block programme to highlight and expand this reading culture.
 
To start, that means keeping our streets clean. With the help of a grant from the Social Employment Fund, we have hired cleaners to help us keep the district looking refreshed.

Dozens of booksellers sell their wares in the LitDistrict. These booksellers provide easy access to books to the thousands of people in the city centre. We have fostered a relationship with these underground sellers, connecting them with publishers so that they can continue to provide the community with new books. We are working together as a neighbourhood to foster more of a reading culture that we hope will spread from our home to many others.

We are in the process of adopting the park that lies at the centre of the LitDistrict. The Library Gardens stretch out from the city library and is a popular gathering point for the community. We hope to turn this park into a literary hub by cleaning it up and filling it with books that are completely free to borrow and read.

We have adopted two outdoor township libraries – one in Alexandra and another in Soweto. We stock these libraries every month to ensure that these communities have access to an ever-changing and ever-growing selection of books. We plan to build more of these throughout Joburg, starting with Library Gardens.

With grants from the city’s Department of Community Development, we workshopped six storybooks in local languages. Three of these stories were accepted by Nal’ibali for translation into all 11 languages with free distribution, thanks to a grant from the Cadbury #InOurOwnWords campaign. See ‘The First Story Ever Told’ in isiXhosa here.

We have also worked on getting stories to print that have, up until now, only existed in oral tradition. In doing this, we hope to share South African stories further across the globe. 

Many South African books that would now be considered classics seem to have disappeared. Some were banned and never reprinted after the end of Apartheid, and others simply fell out the public consciousness but are taking on new resonance now. 

We have been working to publish new editions of such classics so that these stories can re-enter circulation.  We have reprinted a duology of H.I.E. Dhlomo’s ‘The Girl Who Killed to Save’ and ‘Valley of a Thousand Hills’. Dhlomo is a founding figure of South African literature whose work has become hard to come across – something that we are working to change. 

We host publishing workshops to help break down some of the barriers between writers’ ideas and books going to print. We also sell books from independent authors on consignment, helping their words reach readers.

We host Storytime Saturday every week, either at Bridge Books or around the corner at Ernest Oppenheimer Park. With this initiative, we hope to revitalise the art of oral narrative, and to give children a fun and enriching activity on the weekend. Our readers bring stories to life in all South African languages, depending on the week’s audience. We want the kids in the neighbourhood to know that kids like them can be on the covers of books, too.

We also work in collaboration with the Alliance Française. With monthly storytelling events, we support their mission of bringing South African cultures to French expats living in Joburg, encouraging them to introduce their children to more South African stories. Plenty of local children from our area come to listen, too, and to join in on the djembe drum circle. 

The LitDistrict is a part of the Johannesburg Inner City Walkable Network, which links neighbourhoods throughout the CBD to create a clean, safe, and welcoming environment for locals and visitors.
 
 In the LitDistrict, we are working to create a neighbourhood identity based on literature and community. Local kids stop by on their way home from school to do their homework and read together and young professionals hunker down together over coffee at Bridge Books. 
 
All in all, we want our home to feel more like a home – art on the walls, places to come together, books in hands.

African Book Trust

Community-based libraries for children, teens and adults in the DRC.

Books for Congo is a dynamic organization that promotes a culture of reading in the Democratic Republic of Congo through supporting library creation, distributing books and building the capacity of local librarians and libraries. 

Books for Congo

The Fondation Pro-mahJ contributes to the development of the collections of the Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaisme in Paris.

The Fondation pour le musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme (Pro mahJ), in Paris, was created in 2003 on the initiative of Claire Maratier, daughter of painter Michel Kikoïne (1892-1968), to promote the work of artists from the École de Paris and mobilize its resources in support of the mahJ. As an essential supporter of the enrichment of the mahJ's collections and the promotion of its heritage and activities, the foundation is committed to supporting contemporary artists whose work is rooted in the École de Paris and resonates with the mahJ's collections.
Your support will help preserve one of the finest collections of works of art and objects illustrating the heritage of Jewish culture in Europe and around the Mediterranean, from Antiquity to the present day, preserved and hosted by the musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme (mahJ), as well as strengthening the museum's activities, particularly its educational initiatives. The mahJ is France's largest museum devoted to Jewish art and culture, and a place of reference for education, promoting cultural diversity and combating prejudice and discrimination, for people from all walks of life. 
The mahJ is also developing an active policy of research into Jewish history and archeologia, through conferences, symposia and meetings. It actively campaigns for better dissemination of Jewish history and heritage and for it to be taken into account in public policy.


Fondation Pro mahJ 

MTF advances the knowledge and practice of massage therapy by supporting scientific research, education, and community service 

The Massage Therapy Foundation advances the knowledge and practice of massage therapy by supporting scientific research, education, and community service.  Guiding Principles   The Foundation commits to:  • Upholding the principles of philanthropy • Contributing to the understanding and appreciation of massage therapy. • Increasing the Foundation’s visibility in health and wellness. • Sustaining the Foundation’s organizational effectiveness. • Fostering the spirit of collaboration.  Goals  1. Advance research on therapeutic massage and bodywork  2. Foster massage therapy initiatives that serve populations in need   3. Promote research literacy and capacity in the profession  4. Support the evidence-informed practice of therapeutic massage and bodywork based upon available research, client factors, and practitioner experience and judgment  5. Fortify the Foundation’s resources and organizational effectiveness  History  The Massage Therapy Foundation was founded in 1990 with the mission of bringing the benefits of massage therapy to the broadest spectrum of society through the generation, dissemination, and application of knowledge in this field. We do this by receiving donations and granting funds for research, community service, educational initiatives, and conferences, as well as by providing resources to the medical and research communities, and by educating massage therapists about the world of research.

Massage Therapy Foundation

Eagle Ridge Christian School, Inc., is a nonprofit charity focused on education based in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.




EAGLE RIDGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL

VISION STATEMENT
Eagle Ridge Christian School endeavors to raise and equip graduates who are academically qualified, spiritually equipped and physically fit. We aspire to produce graduates that are life-long learners and leaders in their fields of endeavor, valuable members of society, who love, honor, respect, and serve God, their country, and their fellow man.

THE MISSION
The mission of Eagle Ridge Christian School is to provide a quality Christian education based upon the Word of God in an environment where students can achieve maximum success academically, spiritually, and physically in the pursuit of God’s call and purpose in their lives.  

HISTORY 
Eagle Ridge Christian School, Inc. (Eagle Ridge) has a long history of success as a major Christian Educator in Southeast Missouri.  The school was founded in 1982, under the direction of Dr. Mark Carbaugh, and has seen over forty years of success in graduating hundreds of students into successful lives and careers.  

The school has grown from three teachers serving 32 elementary children to a student population of over 220 students and 40 full and part-time staff serving 6-week-old infant care through twelfth grade. 

In 1996, Eagle Ridge graduated its charter class. The next month, Eagle Ridge was incorporated as a separate entity from the church as a 501(c)(3) organization on December 22, 1997. 

In June of that same year, a 30,000-square-foot facility was built on twenty acres to house both the school and Rock of Cape Church.  They have since continued sharing space in this same facility.   
 
In the fall of 1998, the school added a 2 and 3-year-old preschool program, as well as, a before and after-care program. In 1999, Eagle Ridge began offering food service including breakfast, lunch, and an afterschool snack.

In 1998, Eagle Ridge Christian School began accreditation with the International Christian Accrediting Association (ICAA) receiving full accreditation in 2000. Eagle Ridge applied for and received accreditation from the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA) in 2001.  Today, Eagle Ridge maintains accreditation through the International Christian Accreditation Association (ICAA) and Cognia.

Cognia is the parent organization of the North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement (NCA CASI), Northwest Accreditation Commission (NWAC) and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Council on Accreditation and School Improvement (SACS CASI).  
 
The school continues to enjoy a growing, interscholastic athletics program through Missouri Christian School Athletic Association (MCSAA), and as an affiliate member of the Missouri State High School Athletic Association (MSHSAA).  This enables the school to compete with Christian and public schools nationwide.

THE NEED
We have never seen such a demand in all the forty years of the school’s existence as we are seeing now. Calls continue to come in for students, but there is not always space to accommodate the requests. We have come to a place in time where the need is great for the school and we must expand to accommodate the needs of the community.   

As Eagle Ridge has flourished in response to demand in our community, we have outgrown our current building.  The church and school presently occupy a 30,000-square-foot building, where both entities share space.  The requirements of the school have forced the Church to occupy less and less space with each passing school year.  Each year the church has given up more space to accommodate the school’s need for more classroom space. 

We believe this to be an opportune time for the school to begin moving forward with a new campus to meet all the needs of this growing ministry.  

A new campus will provide tremendous opportunities for the school to significantly grow in all areas.  Our preschool would immediately add over 100 students to our enrollment, who are presently on a waiting list.  This alone would increase the school’s annual income by $500,000 to the operating budget and provide additional jobs for many families.  

We have a vision to serve more people in our school.  To reach that potential, we must increase the size of our campus and facilities.

NEW CAMPUS VISION
The school has an opportunity to purchase 125 acres of land. This will allow us to build a 65,000 square feet facility that will allow us to fully educate, train, and equip our students’ mind, body and spirit.

The expansion will accommodate growth to more than 450 students, more than doubling our present enrollment.  In addition, the new school building will also accommodate 100+ children on the waiting list in pre-school.

Key Features will include: 
•	Athletic fields for soccer, baseball and track for our successful athletic programs
•	Modern facilities equipped with the newest and latest technologies to assist faculty and students to reach their greatest potential
•	Implementation of the newest school safety and security measures
•	Modern indoor gymnasiums suitable for all types of competitions
•	Resources and spaces to ensure the education for special needs students

ESTIMATED COSTS
The leaders of the school have now begun a capital campaign to purchase land nearby its present location to build a new school building and campus.

This Capital Campaign’s goal is $18.75 million.  This would include the 125 acre land purchase and construction costs for the new 65,000-square-foot campus.

Eagle Ridge Christian School, Inc., is identified as a Non-Profit 501(c)(3) under the Internal Revenue Service and is registered with the State of Missouri.  The Determination is on file and can be requested.    

You can search on “Guidestar.org” for verification of the school’s recognized status with the Internal Revenue Service.  

The school is recognized as an exempt organization under the Charitable Organizations & Solicitations Law, Sections 407.450 to 407.478 RSMo 2000 in Missouri, Registration No:  CO-335-23.

THE APPEAL
Children and youth today are faced with pressures we never knew, and many situations and tests that we find hard to understand. Their phones, social media, and societal pressures present distracting and complicating issues, bombarding them with misleading information, encouraging them to pursue shallow relationships, and offering empty promises.  

Families in our community are seeking morally-based organizations and educational opportunities that will collaborate with them to uphold their traditional values, especially for their children. 

Parents need help, and they are coming to Eagle Ridge because we offer an excellent and rigorous education that is also based on Biblical Truths.  

We prepare young people with the lessons and tools they need to be academically successful, make sound decisions, and achieve a positive difference in our world.
We are asking you to consider supporting Eagle Ridge’s vision and dream.  With your donation, the school can reach its greatest potential.  Investing in the future of young people is one of the greatest joys a person can experience.  

Eagle Ridge is that place, the foundation that will allow you to touch hundreds of students for generations to come.  You would be sending a message through these students to a time you will never see!  What is that message?  It is the Godly values, principles, and morals, with high academic achievements that will create a future where mankind is able to reach its greatest potential.  

Your gift will continue on through a lifetime and beyond, to multiple generations to affect change to people you will never meet.  These students are the lifeline to the future.   

Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6 (NKJV)

EXPANSION USHERS IN NEW ERA
This is your opportunity to begin a new era of Christian education and build foundations into the lives of hundreds of students, raising leaders to serve God, community, country, and mankind.  The impact of what you do with your gift is immeasurable in the number of lives that will be touched and changed.  We will be raising leaders to serve God, the community, the country, and the world for generations to come.

Your gift is one that will keep on giving!  

Just as Nelson Mandela has said, “Education is the most powerful weapon, which you can use to change the world.” 

Partner with Eagle Ridge and create a foundation for transforming students’ lives through education and change the world.

Eagle Ridge Christian School
4210 State Highway K
Cape Girardeau, Missouri  63701
http://www.eagleridgechristian.org


Eagle Ridge Christian School Inc

Founded in 2008, TGF partners with Cambodian villages for sustainable development and community empowerment to improve livelihoods

Founded in 2008 Temple Garden Foundation (TGF) works in partnership with local villages in Cambodia to improve livelihoods through sustainable development and the empowerment of communities. It supports projects that maximize community participation and minimize external support in four interconnected areas: Water & Sanitation, Health, Children's Education, and Income Generation.



**Our Vision:**

Empowered rural communities building a sustainable future.

**Our Mission:**

To work in partnership with communities to provide the resources and support needed to sustainably build livelihoods.



Over the years, TGF has contributed significantly to essential services, fostering a sustainable and self-sufficient environment in the rural area of Chi Kraeng – an area as big as Singapore. By empowering individuals and communities, we are driving sustainable and inclusive development.

Temple Garden Foundation (TGF)

Saint Monica Coptic Orthodox Church is a nonprofit religious organization. It is based in Costa Mesa, CA. nonprofit status in 2016

Saint Monica Coptic Orthodox Church

SJPLF provides advocacy, financial support, and leadership to our public libraries and educational programs throughout San Jose.

At the heart of our community, libraries provide a place where everyone can learn, create, study and explore. Mrs. Ruth Kampa – a former librarian and President of the Library Commission — embraced this with her strong passion for the Library. In 1987, Ruth had the foresight to setup the San José Public Library Foundation (SJPLF) so that the Library could receive more than just public funding. In 1992, Ruth passed away and because of her bequest the Foundation was able to hire its first paid staff member. According to the original board members, “that was the tipping point that really put the Foundation in business.” The Foundation has changed and grown over the years but Ruth’s legacy to raise funds for our San José libraries still continues today.



San Jose Public Library Foundation

Using art as a vehicle for social change, while connecting the shared history, values and futures of Africa and its Diaspora!

The experiences and cultural contributions of people of African descent have been marginalized throughout history and MoCADA’s mission is to undertake the responsibility of rewriting that history in order to give a more accurate portrayal of the contributions of people of African descent to the artistic and global landscape.

The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) uplifts the visual, literary, and performing arts as a conduit that connects the shared history, values, and futures of Africa and its diaspora, for the purpose of advancing dialogue on pressing social + political issues faced by these communities. We give platform within our safe spaces to artists whose work honor, celebrate, and expand this rich conversation while inviting our community in to explore, engage, and thrive within our collective evolution.

For 20 years, MoCADA has empowered vulnerable communities and instilled a sense of pride in visitors through representation and access to the arts including 100+ groundbreaking artists from 20+ countries (Terence Nance, Dread Scott, Wangechi Mutu, etc) whose voices have gone largely ignored; to Black, LatinX, Indigenous, especially, low income, children, women, immigrants, elders, LGBTQ+, people living with disabilities etc from the communities of Central Brooklyn and beyond.

Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art (MoCADA)

Teachers. Schools. Mentors. Support for local non-profits providing innovative education to transform communities out of poverty.

Give901 wants to see all children in Memphis given the building blocks of an empowering education:
INNOVATIVE SCHOOLS
EXCELLENT TEACHERS
AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS + MENTORING

By giving all children these opportunities, we’ll build the next generation of leaders and innovators—and a stronger, more equitable city that will continue its legacy of creativity, grit, and innovation.
To support this vision, we’ve created Give901, a way for Memphians to invest in local nonprofits that are doing life-changing, city-building work through education. We’ve assembled a portfolio featuring some of the city’s most effective educational nonprofits, and you can invest in their work. Each Give901 partner has a track record of producing measurable outcomes for the teachers and children they serve.

Let’s come together to support the frontline in Memphis education.

Let’s give the change we want to see in this city.

INNOVATIVE SCHOOLS
Memphis has come a long way toward providing educational options to all students.
Each Give901 school is located in an underserved community and primarily serves
minority students. Give901 schools are changing the Memphis educational
landscape and producing students who are ready for life-long success.

EXCELLENT TEACHERS
Give901 teacher training programs produce outstanding teachers with some of the
best retention rates in the city. Teachers impact over 3,000 students during an
average career. We’re investing in that impact.

AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS + MENTORING
Give901 after-school programs enrich, educate, and provide formative mentoring
relationships, positively impacting grades and graduation rates. Students who meet
regularly with mentors are 55% more likely to enroll in college. Give901 is confident in the
difference these programs can make in the lives of the kids of Memphis.

By donating to the Give901 campaign (which falls under the City Leadership 501(c)3) your gift will then be distributed across our portfolio of non-profit partners. We have vetted this programs for effectiveness and curated this group with the deliberate intent to utilize your generosity to create a holistic approach to supporting the future leaders of Memphis.


Give901

Christ gave us a mandate to help the poor. HopeFeathers is doing our part in fulfilling this command. 

Christ gave us a mandate to help the poor. HopeFeathers is doing our part in fulfilling this command. We are a small and effective organization.  We take a grassroots approach with the philosophy of THINK BIG, START SMALL, START NOW.  We support Christ-centered organizations that are helping children in economically disadvantaged situations.  JOIN US  HopeFeathers partners with the King Baudouin Foundation, United States, to manage our grant distributions to recipient organizations in Africa. To make a donation by credit card continue on this page.  HopeFeather's stewardship of your financial contributions is one of the hallmarks of our organization. We have deep rooted, well established relationships with all of our grant recipient leaders and we communicate with them on a consistent basis. We've visited all the countries where grants have been awarded.  You can be confident that your contributions are well managed and purposed. We do not use any of your donations for administrative costs.  Occasionally we fund travel expenses  for missionaries and volunteers supporting our goals and objectives around the world. 

HopeFeathers

JustMedia is an open-access online platform that catalogs, preserves, and centralizes media content related to criminal justice.

JustMedia prioritizes the leadership of people directly impacted by the criminal justice system, including incarcerated individuals, returning citizens, and their communities, and people who are excluded from the political, economic, and social institutions that shape their lives. Given the stark racial disparity in mass incarceration, JustMedia’s staff and Board are largely comprised of people of color. In more broadly considering people who have been excluded from the political, economic, and social institutions that shape their lives, we intentionally consider race, gender, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, and agency in making decisions around Board development and staff hiring. JustMedia has already cultivated an intersectional community and expects to hire new staff members from our community through competitive processes with a view toward equity. JustMedia has maintained partnerships, developed media literacy focused curriculum, facilitated workshops, and sustained relationships with those utilizing our database and resources.

Throughout the last year, we were able to grow our archive database from 719 films on our to 1,264 films. Additionally, we have created several resource videos that serve as navigation tools for visitors as they are researching our database. We have been able to train lawyers, advocates, educators, and filmmakers on how to use our archive using these videos and presentations.


Just Media Inc

Our Mission is to create a community Makerspace in the Greater Compton Area, with equal access to resources to inspire all.

Our Mission is to create a community Makerspace in the Greater Compton Area, with equal access to tools, workshops, technology, and resources to inspire creativity, facilitate lifelong learning, and provide inclusive and equitable opportunities for all.

Short Term Goals (2024/2025)
Expand workshop and class offerings based on community feedback;
Engage more deeply with the community;
Create a mini-makerspace to support small businesses and encourage new business ventures;
Increase Revenue Streams through membership expansion, capital campaigns, grant opportunities, community fundraisers, and sponsorships;

Long Term Goals (2025 & Beyond)
Continue enhancing services offered to the community;
Become a central fixture within the community;
Plan and develop the Compton Makers Hub with the support of the community;
Replicate our process and parts of our makerspace model to bring a makerspace to multiple underserved communities.

The Makers Hub

Get a free Insider's Guide to help you start your own Little Free Library: www.littlefreelibrary.org/start

Little Free Library

Newport Public Library brings together people, ideas, and information for the good of every individual and the community it serves

Newport Public Library is located in eastern Perry County PA. Our formal service area is almost 10,000 people. We also freely serve folks from the surrounding townships and counties, as well.

Within our beautiful building we house our growing and diverse collection of physical items- books, audiobooks on CD, DVDs, magazines, and music CDs. In our online collection we provide downloadable books and audiobooks, the databases that make up the PA POWER Library, and other online resources. We provide reference service in person, via email and social media, as well as referrals to other social service organizations. We provide basic office services, such as copies, printing, FAXes, scan to email, comb binding, and lamination. We have computers for public use and Wi-Fi available inside and 24/7 outside our building. 

Our front doors have power assist, and we have a walker for those who may need a bit of help to be able to select their own materials. We also offer curb service.

We provide a rotating collection of materials to local senior centers and the Perry County prison. We also lend and receive items through interlibrary loan programs with libraries within Perry County, within Pennsylvania, and within the US.

Programs offered include Summer Reading Challenges for children, teens, and adults, preschool storytime, and special programs such as book signings with local authors and other programs of general interest. In addition, outreach events are Discover Newport's Food Truck Festival, Canal Day, and Little Buffalo Festivel of the Arts.

Last summer we debuted our Crop Swap, where people could leave and take excess produce from their gardens. We are expanding that this year to include excess garden seeds and plants. This summer we are adding a sewing machine to be used in the library by folks who need to make minor repairs to their belongings. We are also adding six hotspots for loan, and pickup lockers for people who cannot visit thelibrary during our regular business hours. 

Our community events, hosted jointly by the library and the Friends of Newport Public Library, include four used book sales per year and our December event, Santa Claus Lane Gift Shop, at which area children can buy gifts for family members for $1 per gift. Assistance is given in wrapping these gifts, and the children leave with their peek-proof gifts ready to give.

Our annual fundraisers include a June golf scramble, our Bike4Books Bicycle Tour the last Saturday in September, and our Holiday Buy-A-Book Program. 

Current and upcoming challenges include replacement of carpeting and renovation of our HVAC system, along with the constant expansion of our collection. In addition, in order to expand our services, we need to recruit and support qualified and compassionate staff whose mission aligns with ours.

As with many public libraries in Pennsylvania, each year we need to raise about three quarters of our operating budget through fundraising. Your donation, no matter what size, will help provide a safe, comfortable, and welcoming facility with a well-rounded collection of library materials to help educate and delight all members of the community, programs to inspire people of all ages, and services to improve the lives of all members of our community. We extend sincere thanks to all who help us achieve these goals.




Newport Public Library

Cabell County Public Library

Providence Community Library serves the culturally rich people of Providence by adapting to their evolving reading and information needs with a diverse staff that delivers relevant library resources and programs, cultivates meaningful partnerships and promotes vibrant neighborhoods.

Providence Community Library

Tipp City Public Library

Workshops in Letterpress Printing, Bookbinding, Book Arts & Crafts :: Art Exhibitions :: Open Studios & Studio Rentals :: Corporate Team Building :: Events

San Francisco Center for the Book

We engage the community and raise funds to support the library.

A volunteer organization engaged in supporting the Ferndale Area District Library.  See more at: http://ferndalefriends.org

Friends of the Ferndale Library

The 16 branches of the Anne Arundel County Public Library  serve the  residents of Anne Arundel County and strive to be the essential connection to learning and enrichment for all.  The Library's Social Media Policy: http://bit.ly/aacplsm

Anne Arundel County Public Library

We are a community of learning. Visit us at spokanelibrary.org.

Spokane Public Library

A whole new approach to providing technology access and education in Omaha.

Do Space empowers our community through access to technology and innovative learning experiences.