Online Articles
- American Libraries: On My Mind—Support the Cultural Communities Fund (pdf) by Barbara Immroth
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Contra Costa Times:
Written Word Is Just the Beginning
(requires free registration) by Julie Winkelstein -
Daily Herald:
Culture Comes Alive At Libraries
by Sarah Ann Long
- It’s All Good blog:
Putting some money where the scan is
by George Needham
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Library Journal:
Support CCF Now!
by John N. Berry, III
- WebJunction:
Meeting the Cultural Community Challenge
by George Needham
ALA Press Releases
- Experience cutting-edge theater at Annual Conference and support Cultural Communities Fund (2/10/09)
- Successful conclusion to CCF fundraising campaign (12/2/08)
- Generous estate gift benefits ALA Cultural Communities Fund (9/2/08)
- ALA president urges support for final CCF fundraising challenge (4/7/08)
- RUSA supports the Cultural Communities Fund. Gift in recognition of 60+ years of the Notable Books Council (4/10/07)
- Public Programs Office launches 2007 campaign for ALA Cultural Communities Fund (9/11/06)
- ACRL makes pledge to support the Cultural Communities Fund (4/7/06)
- Peggy Barber makes planned gift to Cultural Communities Fund (2/14/06)
- ALA offers travel program; proceeds will support CCF (11/25/05)
- ALA launches 2006 Campaign for CCF; Goal is $140,000 (11/25/05)
- ALA Cultural Communities Fund receives $50,000 pledge from H.W. Wilson Foundation (9/14/05)
- ALA reports 2005 fund raising progress for CCF (8/1/05)
- ALA reports strong funding for Cultural Communities Fund; Seeks $300,000 in 2005 (3/10/05)
- Award winner Kathleen de la Peña McCook donates prize to Cultural Communities Fund (5/21/04)
- ALA establishes endowment fund for library cultural programming (5/28/04)
Testimonals
“We count on ALA’s Public Programs Office to continue to produce model programs on important issues and enduring themes for a public dialogue. We count on access to ALA-sponsored training for our staff and scholars to present these programs. And we count on ALA to help us to continue reaching new program audiences.”— Natalie Weikart, Coordinator of Adult Programming, Coordinator of the Maryland Center for the Book
“ALA’s influence has greatly enhanced and helped create our library’s role as a community cultural center. It would be difficult to overestimate the value our library and community have received from the leadership of the Public Programs Office. With our programming we have created community partnerships with the public schools, the university, the regional arts center, Wisconsin Public Radio and regional writers. Thanks to ALA’s Cultural Communities Fund, these connections will continue to expand.”— Mildred N. Larson, L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
“At the heart of the Frankenstein exhibit is the question of what it means to be human and to be part of the human community. The development of model programs for bringing these humanistic themes to the broader reading public…will be welcomed by librarians without access to the resources of better-endowed institutions. The creation of the Cultural Communities Fund is an important contribution to broadcasting humanities scholarship to Americans of diverse backgrounds, diverse educations and diverse resources.”— Susan E. Lederer, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine
“The Cultural Communities Fund will greatly advance the work of libraries as community sites where people of all backgrounds come together to explore the cultural and social issues of today’s world.”— Stu Wilson, Director of Public Awareness and Communication, The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library
“ALA must succeed in establishing the Cultural Communities Fund as a national foundation of support for public programming. If you believe that libraries are essential to the cultural life of our communities, we need your help.”— Deborah L. Jacobs, City Librarian, The Seattle Public Library
