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YALSA offers many opportunities for donations. Learn how to become a Friend of YALSA or how to support the Leadership Endowment. Interested in planned giving? Learn more on our planned giving page.

Become a Friend of YALSA

Meet the 2008 Friends of YALSA

Our Mission

Friends of YALSA was created to ensure excellence in the Association's traditional programs and services to library workers serving teens and to support growth in new directions as our profession meets the exciting challenges of the 21st century.

As a Friend of YALSA you can choose to support one or more of these initiatives at the core of YALSA's mission. Friends support:

Continuous Learning: creating opportunities for all members and library workers to grow through grants, providing scholarships to those in need and offering distance learning and institutes.
Advocacy: educating members, library workers, the general public and policy makers about the importance of providing excellent library services to teens, and the critical role that library workers and libraries play in helping teens develop key literacy skills and a lifelong appreciation of reading.
Research: guiding and promoting research in the field of young adult librarianship through grants, publications, and other means to ensure that the field of librarianship has the necessary knowledge to meet the needs of teens.
Teen Literacy & Young Adult Literature: sponsoring literacy initiatives such as Teen Read Week, YALSA’s booklists and book awards, guaranteeing YALSA's place in the forefront of our nation's adolescent literacy campaigns.
Planning for the Future: helping to attract new members and retain existing ones, creating public awareness campaigns, planning and carrying out new initiatives to pursue excellence in library service to young adults, and more.

To Become a Friend:

You can become a Friend of YALSA in any giving category.

Platinum Circle $1,000 or more
Gold Circle $500-$999
Silver Circle $250-$499
Bronze Circle $100-$249
Friends' Circle $25-$99
Other

Make your tax-deductible donation in either of the following ways:

Donate online by credit card at the ALA Development Office's secure Web site. (Fill in the amount you would like to donate in the YALSA box of the "Give to a Divison" section).
Send a contribution by mail, using the printable, mail-in form. Complete the form and mail it back with your donation to: Friends of YALSA, 50 East Huron, Chicago, IL 60611.

Special Recognition for Friends of YALSA

A letter from YALSA recognizing your generous donation for your tax records

A letter from ALA/YALSA recognizing your generous donation for your tax records
Special listing in YAttitudes, YALSA's quarterly e-newsletter
Special listing on the YALSA Web site
Friend of YALSA conference badge ribbon
Reserved seating at the YALSA Membership Meeting, Edwards Luncheon & Printz Program at ALA’s Annual Conference
Acknowledgment at the annual Membership Meeting
Platinum and Gold Circle members receive a special invitation to meet with the Edwards Award winner at a reception at ALA Annual Conference
Platinum members who attend ALA's Annual Conference and/or Midwinter Meeting may make hotel reservations through ALA's VIP Housing option (please contact the YALSA office at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 4390, to do this)

For More Information

Request a Friends of YALSA packet to be mailed to you by contacting the YALSA office at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 4390, or via email at yalsa@ala.org.

Previous Friends of YALSA

2007 Friends of YALSA
2006 Friends of YALSA

Leadership Endowment

Meet the Leadership Endowment Donors!

At the 2007 Annual Conference YALSA Past Presidents Jennifer Gallant and Pam Spencer Holley announced their plans to donate funds to establish a leadership endowment for YALSA. The Board of Directors supported this effort. In August, a letter from Gallant and Holley went out to all of YALSA’s Past Presidents encouraging them to donate to this new fund and just over $11,000 was raised. In February 2008 YALSA’s Board of Directors voted to move $25,000 from the operating budget into this fund in FY09.

Goals: The primary purpose of the YALSA Leadership Endowment of is to generate income to support the development of future leaders both within the association and throughout the profession in order to insure the future growth of YALSA and the field of young adult librarianship.

Use of Funds: YALSA’s leadership recognizes that the importance of establishing an endowment to generate permanent interest/dividend income which can be used to support specific leadership development initiatives such as scholarships, fellowships and awards, mentoring programs, leadership institutes, travel and workshop grants, etc. The principal of the endowment is not available for current operations, and the interest/dividends as a portion of the net earnings would support identified programs, in accordance with ALA Long Term Investment Policy 8.5. The endowment would include only monies donated without restrictions. All funds in the YALSA Leadership Endowment, regardless of their sources, are considered to be the funds of YALSA.

Your Support: A gift to the Leadership Endowment will enable future generations of librarians to provide excellence in library services to teens. Your gift is tax deductible. ALA/YALSA is a 501(c)3 charitable organization and tax payers may deduct contributions representing up to 50% of the donor's adjusted gross income if the individual itemizes on her/his tax returns. Contributions are deductible for the year in which they are actually paid or delivered. ALA/YALSA respects your privacy and will honor your wishes. If you wish to remain anonymous, please indicate that when you send in your gift. Donate online by credit card or send your gift to YALSA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611.

Donor Recognition: Donors will receive a letter from ALA/YALSA recognizing your generous donation for your tax records, a special listing in YAttitudes, YALSA's quarterly e-newsletter, a special listing on the YALSA website, a Leadership Endowment conference badge ribbon, reserved seating at the YALSA Membership Meeting, Edwards Luncheon and Printz Reception at ALA’s Annual Conference and acknowledgment at the annual Membership Meeting. Individuals who contribute to the Leadership Endowment via planned giving, will also become members of ALA’s Legacy Society.

For further information, please contact YALSA’s Executive Director at 1.800.545.2433 x4391 or byoke@ala.org.