![]() There are no meetings in July and August. The Friends meet on the second Tuesday of the month at 1pm at the New Milford Public Library. ![]() Donation of piano, computers, video games, children’s room mural made possible by the Friends of NMPL and generous donations from the Harmatz Family in honor of their parents Dan and Selma.Guest author appearances to build interest in books and reading.Membership meetings of interest to library supporters.The Friends of the New Milford Public Library actively promotes and supports the library with: Speaking out in support of local, state and national libraries. There is a donation bin for Better World Books that is emptied regularly, located on the side of the Main Library that can be accessed from the driveway between.Raising funds to buy books and materials not covered by the budget.Enhancing the resources and services of the library.To learn more about requesting books, click here.Friends are library supporters and volunteers dedicated to: ![]() To learn more about donating books, click here. We are continually looking for new opportunities to reach all children who are so in need of books to call their own! The Bridge of Books Foundation over the years has participated in a prison-reading programs, donated to reading coaches and focused on the needs of bi-lingual readers. From massive book distributions to in-classroom reading, we love to celebrate Read Across America Week! We also sponsor events to coincide with Read Across America Week. At one event, we gave away over 1300 books in less than four hours! Once the parents and children get over being astounded that BoB’s books are free, the children are delighted by an opportunity to select as many books as they want to take home and keep. We participate in community events such as resource fairs distributing books directly to children who attend. They have helped us distribute literally tens of thousands of books all over New Jersey. One Youth Corps Supervisor reported distributing books to an after-school program in Camden that had NO books! The Bridge of Books Foundation has donated books to all eleven Youth Corps sites including Asbury Park, Camden, Trenton, Vineland, Jersey City and Edison. Our relationship is a win-win for all of us, enabling Youth Corps members to identify and benefit children in their communities and allowing us to reach more children efficiently. The New Jersey Youth Corps is a full-time voluntary program with a strong focus on community service that provides education, work experience and life skills training to approximately 1,000 out-of-school youths between the ages of 16 and 25. One of our oldest and most treasured partnerships has been with the New Jersey Youth Corps. Special Partnership with New Jersey Youth Corps Keansburg, Newark, Trenton, Asbury Park are just some of the school districts for which we have provided We have delivered tens of thousands of books to schools throughout New Jersey for reading programs in the summer and throughout the year. In addition, we provide Spanish and bi-lingual books to agencies around New Jersey as requested. Click here to see a complete list of agencies Childcare centers ,family centers, youth organizations, adoptive service groups are just some of the types of agencies that receive our books. The Bridge of Books Foundation has given books to New Jersey’s underserved children through over 100 New Jersey agencies and organizations. Not just at schools, the logical place to do, but at community centers, at neighborhood events, through special youth partnerships, parent/child prison reading programs and special Bridge of Books Foundation sponsored events. ![]() From the very beginning we have aimed to ‘think outside the box’ and find new and creative ways to get books into the hands of all New Jersey children, anywhere and everywhere. We believe that ALL children should have books to call their own and we are passionate about making this happen. We supplement these with targeted book purchases for example teen books, bilingual and young adult books. We collect books through book drives, individual donations and donations from publishing houses. Our goal is to get as many books as possible into the hands of New Jersey’s underserved children. All children should have books to call their own!
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