ABOUT US
We provide opportunities for its membership
and Library customers
Our Mission
The purpose of the Placentia Library Friends Foundation is to assist the Placentia Library District (Library) by raising funds to support and enhance its programs, activities and capital projects, promote volunteer involvement and provide educational and cultural opportunities for its membership and Library customers.
Background of the PLFF
The Placentia Library Friends Foundation is a non-profit, tax-exempt membership organization incorporated in 1970 and reorganized in 2007. It supports the Placentia Library through providing volunteers and grants of money for programs and services.
The Friends Foundation is managed by a Board of Directors elected by the membership at its Annual Meeting. The Placentia Library Friends Foundation meets on the second Monday of each month at 6:30 p.m. in the Library’s Community Meeting Room. In its recent reorganization, the Friends Foundation expanded its mission to include raising funds through major gifts and bequests, establishing endowment funds, applying for grants from corporations and foundations, and financing capital projects for the Placentia Library District.
Our Activities
- Operates a Book Store.
- Sponsors the Library’s volunteer program, including volunteer recognition.
- Sponsors an Author’s Luncheon to raise funds for programs such as the Adopt-A-Book and Book Endowment programs.
- Conducts a membership and sustaining gift campaign to fund projects for current year, as well as capital projects.
- Promotes planned giving opportunities and conducts a year-end giving campaign.
- Manages endowment funds for books and Library services.
- Purchases equipment, books and furniture for the Placentia Library and provides funding for special projects.
- Co-sponsors a Library staff recognition program with the Library Board of Trustees.
The PLFF Board Members
Join the PLFF board while exploring the variety of opportunities to serve the community through the Placentia Library!
The PLFF board members make the most of donated funds and items to benefit the community! For example, volunteers evaluate donated items (books) for resale in the bookstore. The books are sold at low prices, which makes them more accessible to members of the community! All proceeds from the bookstore earn funds for the library.
“Everybody can be great… because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Current Board
President
Gaeten Wood
Marian Kalman
Vice-President
Paulette Maskarino
Recording Secretary
Vineet Prasad
Treasurer
Brenda Benner
Financial Secretary
Ashley Nick
Membership Chair
Melissa Teeling
Bookstore Chair
Mary Strazda
Advisory Committee
Sherri Dahl
Board of Trustees Liaison