Corporate Support

How your company can support us

ALA, the voice of America's libraries, works with companies to align corporate responsibility goals with ALA mission-driven initiatives. Through outright donations, employee gifts (often matched), cause-marketing, event or program sponsorship, fundraisers benefiting ALA, named scholarships and travel grants corporate collaborators provide essential support to the library community. 

We can offer your company several opportunities:

• Enhance your company's profile through a collaboration with the nation's oldest and largest library association, supported by number of internationally known celebrities and high-profile spokespersons.
• ALA has a dedicated media relations team which works with our corporate collaborators to highlight shared causes. 

Headquartered in Chicago, with a substantial presence and office in Washington D.C., ALA has 8 divisions representing various types of libraries and library specialties, and 12 offices focused on specific issues. 

How Companies and ALA can work together

Cause Related Marketing
Your company may be able to increase its sales by designating a certain percent or amount of money from your products to ALA.  

Customer Fundraising 
Companies can help raise money for ALA by giving customers the opportunity to donate. This can reap huge dividends in terms of building customer loyalty and brand equity for your company.

Donations
Many companies or their charitable foundations choose to make an outright corporate donation. Donations may be directed as chosen by the Company. Unrestricted donations help ALA address time-sensitive areas of need. Corporate donors are recognized to member and public-facing audiences. 

Matching Gifts
ALA is grateful to companies that provide employee gift matching programs. We are fortunate to have several companies that include ALA as an option for employee donations. Some employers match 1:1 or 2:1, increasing the impact and benefit to libraries. 

Scholarships and Travel Grants
Multi-year pledges or endowed gifts provide assistance for graduate and Ph.D. students. Named scholarships reflect a corporation’s investment in the library profession. Travel grants supported by companies extends the opportunities for library workers to experience in-person conferences that would otherwise be out of reach. 

Event and Program Sponsorships

ALA, its Divisions, Offices, and Roundtables offer event and program-based sponsorships. These high-profile contributions may be committed year-by-year or through multi-year agreements. 

For more information about ALA's Corporate Partnerships Program, please contact the ALA Development Office at development@ala.org or telephone at (312) 280-5871.