Other Giving Opportunities

The American Library Association affords contributors a range of opportunities to support its mission "to provide leadership for the development, promotion, and improvement of library and information services and the profession of librarianship in order to enhance learning and ensure access to information for all." Within the framework of this mission ALA recognizes diversity as a strength and works with its many divisions and units to achieve its goals and priorities. 

Giving to ALA Major Inititaives and Campaigns
ALA Scholarships
The American Library Association is committed to promoting and advancing the librarian profession. To demonstrate this commitment, the ALA and its units provide more than $300,000 annually for study in a master's degree in library and information studies from an ALA accredited program, or for a master's degree in school library media program that meets the ALA curriculum guidelines for a National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) accredited unit.

ALA Spectrum Program
Spectrum is ALA's national diversity and recruitment effort designed to address the specific issue of underrepresentation of critically needed ethnic librarians within the profession while serving as a model for ways to bring attention to larger diversity issues in the future. The Spectrum Program provides scholarships and professional development programs to improve service at the local level through the development of a representative workforce that reflects the communities served by all libraries.

The Campaign for America's Libraries
Cultural Communities Fund
Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund

Giving to ALA Round Tables
Continuing Library Education Network and Exchange (CLENERT)
Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange (EMIERT)
Exhibits (ERT)
Federal and Armed Forces Libraries (FAFLRT)
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered (GLBTRT)
Government Documents (GODORT)
Intellectual Freedom (IFRT)
International Relations (IRRT)
Library History (LHRT)
Library Instruction (LIRT)
Library Research (LRRT)
Library Support Staff Interests (LSSIRT)
Map and Geography (MAGERT)
New Members (NMRT)
Social Responsibilities (SRRT)
Staff Organizations (SORT)
Video (VRT)

The American Library Association is a 501(c)(3) charitable and educational organization. Contributions to ALA are tax-deductible to the extent provided by law.