Friends of the Frisco Public Library

A nonprofit organization

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The Friends of the Frisco Public Library is a non-profit organization that helps enrich our community by inviting its members to volunteer for programs that promote public relations and fundraising opportunities on behalf of our library. 


Our Needs

The Friends of the Frisco Public Library depends on monetary donations as well as donations of gently used books, games and media which we then resell in our Bookshop. We also need volunteers to support the Bookshop and annual or lifetime memberships to carry out our mission.

The Library's needs include financial donations to be used to enhance hands on STEAM activity items for elementary aged children as well as technology for workforce development and community engagement. In late 2022 the Frisco Public Library will move to a new location a few blocks south. There are new and exciting things being added in the new facility which include an expansion of the Friend's sponsored Ready to Read Railroad Playscape as well as more community meeting space, technology programing and services.

We also accept donations of gently used books for resale in our Bookshop. We will have our own retail space in the new library which will rely solely on volunteers to staff. We will need more volunteers to assist during all library hours preparing books for sale, merchandising and staffing as sales people in the Bookshop. The Bookshop is a daily fundraiser for the Friends organization. 

Friends memberships are available at various levels. They include: $25 Individual membership, a $50 Family Membership, a $250 Business Membership, and $500 to $1,000 Lifetime Membership. 

Friends sells an exclusive Christmas ornament each year which is a community landmark or building. The 2022 ornament is the New Library façade and we expect to sell quite a few!

Mission

The Friends of the Frisco Public Library encourage gifts, endowments, and memorials for/ to the Library; to build awareness and public support for expanding library services, to provide direct financial assistance to the Library for the purchase of special and unusual goods or services, which are of great benefit, but cannot be purchased from the Library's budget. Examples include the building and growth of the Ready to Read Railroad into a fully Tiny Town experience for our youngest patrons. We also purchased the Trail Blazer Press which allows patrons to self-publish a book right inside the library!

Needs

The Friends of the Frisco Public Library depends on monetary donations as well as donations of gently used books, games, puzzles and media which we then resell in our Bookshop. We also need volunteers to support the Bookshop along with our annual or lifetime memberships to carry out our mission.

Organization Data

Summary

Organization name

Friends of the Frisco Public Library

Tax id (EIN)

75-2392303

Guidestar

Causes

Community Improvement, Education - K-12, Education - STEM

Operating Budget

Less than $100,000

Counties Served

Collin

BIPOC Leadership

Neither/None

Address

6101 Frisco Square Blvd Ste 3000
Frisco, TX 75034

Phone

214-629-7951

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