2023 Annual Campaign

“Celebration of the Written Word”
This year, funds will support city library programs and resources for all ages including children, teens, families, and adults.

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Literary Legacy Program

Help the Riverside Public Libraries in
Preparing for Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond

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2023 Fall Fundraiser: Love Letters to Donors

The Riverside Public Library Foundation is pleased to announce our 2023 fundraising event, Love Letters to Donors, on Sunday, November 5th, 2023, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Main Library, 3900 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA 92501.

Please consider attending this extraordinary evenings to celebrate our donors and to preview the newly named Library spaces and Foundation Donor Wall supported with funds raised by our ongoing Literacy Legacy Program.

We are planning an exciting evening in the Main Library with its stunning views of the city of Riverside from the Reading Room and Terrace. We will serve scrumptious finger foods along with wine and beer. Raffles for wine and “Bucks for Blooms” along with a chance to donate to specific Library programs will fill our evening celebrating our donors.

Event reservations are $100 per person. Be sure to select “Love Letters to Donors” on the Donation page.

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Thank you for your support which increases and sustains the library programs and opportunities for all Riverside’s citizens.

Riverside Public Library

Literary Legacy Program

Help us support Riverside's libraries through this 5-year fundraising program. Learn more about this program...

Some of Our Success Stories

Orange Terrace Library

Raised approximately $200,000 for the new Orange Terrace Library.

Storymobile

Helped to fund the READy-Set-Go Storymobile.

Story Time Kits

Provided Story Time Kits for Daycare Providers.

Helped Students

On-Line Homework Help for Riverside Students.

Casa Blanca

Provided furnishings & Artwork for the Casa Blanca Family Learning Center.

Eastside Cybrary

Provided Computers for the Eastside Cybrary.

The Riverside Public Library Foundation raises funds to ensure the excellence of library services for Riverside residents. Take a moment to explore the things we've done for residents and Riverside libraries. Then help us by donating.

"Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

Germain Greer

"A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, public universities, and so on.

Robert Reich

"It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we've seen with the Internet's development."

Noam Chomsky