About
Make a Difference
Each year the library staff provides the Board of the Friends with a funding request. These funds are used to cover costs of programs, supplies, and other support, but not for staff salaries and benefits; those costs remain the responsibility of the City. Through book sale and fundraising efforts, Friends of the Prescott Public Library raise money to serve you better! To make a donation to Friends, checks can be mailed or dropped off at the Prescott Public Library:
215 E. Goodwin Street, Prescott, AZ 86303.
Book sale income, donations, and other contributions to the Friends, fund a variety of projects, including:
- Children’s reading programs and special events.
- Chamber music concerts.
- Author talks and book signings.
- Special collections of books and DVDs.
- Purchase of new furnishings and library shelving.
- Story Walk at Granite Creek Park.
- Library of Things: Hiking kits, Binoculars, Telescopes, Ukulele’s, and garden seeds to name a few.
- Mobile phone charging stations inside the library.
- And many more – the Library Lion and Library Lizard sculptures, a passive water catchment system, the Beyond Words mural, Live Homework Help, and Spotlight on the Stars to name a few.
Friends also accept and administer bequests of funds given to benefit the library.
Monetary donations, donations of books and magazines, and bequests turn into countless library services and Friends of the Prescott Public Library funded programs.
Board of Directors
William Arnold, President
Barb Collins, Vice President
Mike Gulley, Secretary
Deb McCasland, Treasurer
Rosie Hartner
Lindsay Rader Glanzer
Shannon Rosenbaltt
Mike Seifert
Janet Steven
Endowment Information
Friends of the Prescott Public Library are pleased to announce an established endowment with the Arizona Community Foundation (ACF). ACF works with local and statewide communities to build and grow philanthropic resources for Arizona’s future. Friends are proud to have created an avenue, through ACF, for lifetime and legacy giving to benefit the Prescott Public Library for future generations. Your gift to the Friends will provide library programming for children and adults in our community for years to come.
