Empowering Your Friends Group to Become Advocacy Rockstars

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United for Libraries Learning Live: February 2025: Empowering Your Friends Group to Become Advocacy Rockstars
United for Libraries Learning Live: February 2025: Empowering Your Friends Group to Become Advocacy Rockstars
February 2025 Learning Live

Description

Given the increasing national scrutiny of public libraries, strong Friends organizations that are steadfast in defending intellectual freedom and are proactively advocating on behalf of the libraries we support are more crucial than ever. Through this program, you will learn how a longstanding Friends organization evolved beyond book sales, created clarity and excitement where fear of the word "advocacy" once existed, and developed a simple framework for library advocacy that any group can put to use.

Speaker

Shanta Dickerson is the inaugural Executive Director of the Friends of Johnson County (KS) Library, an organization of nearly 1,000 members and 100+ dedicated volunteers who contributed more than 18,000 hours in 2023 alone. A graduate of the University of Kansas, Shanta is actively involved in her community. She serves on the Governmental Affairs Committee of the Kansas Library Association and the Membership Committee of Nonprofit Connect, Kansas City’s nonprofit association.

About Learning Live

United for Libraries Learning Live sessions takes place on the second Tuesday of each month* at 2 p.m. Eastern Time. Each month’s session will cover a hot topic of interest to Trustees, Friends and/or Foundations, followed by Q&A and/or discussions. Sessions are open to all personal members of United for Libraries and those with statewide access.

*Learning Live is not held in August due to United for Libraries Virtual: Trustees, Friends, Foundations.

How to Register

United for Libraries Personal Members & Statewide Partners

United for Libraries Personal Members

Statewide Partners (MA, MD, MI, MN, ND, NE, OR, SC, and VA)

Non-Members

Non-members may purchase a one-year subscription to Learning Live, which includes live attendance and on-demand access to 11 webinars over a 12-month period* beginning with the month of purchase.

Some Learning Live sessions are available for standalone purchase.

Event tags:
Academic Library
Administration & Leadership
Advocacy
Online
Public Library
Rural Library
School Library
Special Library
Tribal Library
Trustees, Friends & Foundations
Urban Library
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February 11, 2025
1:00 - 2:00pm CST
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