United for Libraries offers a variety of products and services to help your Friends Group, Trustees, and Foundation be successful. From Books for Babies kits to start an early literacy program in your community, to handbooks for Trustees and Friends, United for Libraries is your first resources for materials to help you support your library.
Power Guide for Successful Library Advocacy
United for Libraries, along with the Neal-Schuman Foundation, believe strongly that advocacy can and does work. We’ve seen evidence of it from coast to coast in all types of libraries at the local and the state levels. Developing an advocacy campaign, as you will soon see, is not rocket science but it does take dedication, hard work, a core group of people who are passionate about the cause and the support of many, many people in your community. This guide will take the mystery out of advocacy, provide you with an organized step-by-step approach, and allow you to develop a set of strategies that will motivate your community to pressure funders to support the library or in the case of a referendum or a bond issue – to vote “yes.”