April 2014-May 2014 - Library Foundation

SACRAMENTO
PUBLIC LIBRARY
www.saclibraryfoundation.org
Advocacy.
FOUNDATION
News
Advocating for stronger libraries and
advocating for children are what the Board and Staff of the Sacramento Public
Library Foundation are doing to make Sacramento a stronger community.
Mary Ellen Shay, Kristan Otto, and April Butcher are all volunteering their
time and talents to the Measure B support committee to make sure that the
tax augmentation for City Libraries passes on June 3, 2014. Past and present
Foundation board members and Foundation staff are
holding house parties to educate community members ad•vo•ca•cy
about the Library and the Measure B initiative. Mary
1. the act or
Ellen Shay and April Butcher are bringing Land Park
process of
residents together on April 25, Patty Fairbanks is
supporting
teaming up with Mimi and Burnett Miller in East
Sacramento on April 30, and Kristan Otto is gathering a cause or
neighbors in Campus Commons on May 6. At these
proposal : the
house parties, Library Director Rivkah Sass and/
act or process
or City Councilmember Angelique Ashby will give an
update on the Library and the importance of Measure
of advocating
B. And finally, through interest earned on unrestricted
investments, the Foundation has given nearly $32,000 something
to this effort through education and direct campaign support.
In addition to advocating for the Library as a whole, the Foundation is also
advocating for those who cannot advocate for themselves – children. Right now
literacy rates as measured by grade level reading are alarmingly low. Less than
37% of Sacramento’s fourth graders are at grade level reading. The library is a
place a child can not only learn to read, but learn the joy of reading. They can
check out books of their own, which for many children, is a little like having
another birthday. When children gain a love for reading, their confidence grows
and their ability to learn increases. The Foundation is supporting the Library’s
Summer Reading Program over the next several years and working on helping
the Library increase the numbers of Children who participate. In addition, the
Foundation is looking to put literacy vans in low income communities so that
kids who can’t get to the library can still have access to the library. In order to
ensure the stability and growth of these initiatives beyond the next few years,
the Foundation is establishing an endowment that will be dedicated to keeping
these programs operating.
Perhaps one day in the future, a young adult from Sacramento will say, “Reading
is what we do as a community in Sacramento.”
April-May, 2014
Mission: To enhance the
Library’s ability to serve the
community by raising private
funds.
Vision: The Foundation will
increase endowments and total
revenues to fund programs that
promote children’s literacy.
Our Goals: Increase total
annual revenues with an
emphasis on funding children’s
literacy programs without
sacrificing traditional program
funding. Develop approaches to
increase funding for Foundation
operations independent of funds
raised for the library. Enhance
the capacities of leadership
particularly in the area of
fundraising.
Foundation Board of Directors
President, Mary Ellen Shay
Vice President, Dan McVeigh
Treasurer, Patty Fairbanks
Secretary, Nancy Stockman
Clark Carter
Vince Jacobs
Nancy Lawrence
Kristan Otto
Marilyn Park
Beth Southorn
Wendy Wood
Library Leadership
Library Director, Rivkah Sass
Deputy Director, Denise Davis
Foundation Staff
Executive Director, April L. Butcher
Database Coordinator, Dejan Zbur
Newsletter Design: Sheila Grant
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Authors on the Move: What a Night!
Mistress of Ceremonies and host for Capital Public Radio’s Insight
segment Beth Ruyak kept the room happily moving through a
packed evening of authors who circulated to tables, to talk about
their work, an auction offering additional author experiences,
and a well-received keynote address. “Once Orville {Schell}
began to speak, not a single person left their table until he was
done,” noticed longtime supporter M.J. Hamilton. Orville Schell
delighted guests with his depth of knowledge and ability to make
the current and past issues surrounding China accessible and
interesting. Don Brodeur mentioned a week later, “I could have
listened to Orville speak all night.” In addition to our keynote,
authors from around the state gave our audiences a more
personalized literacy experience. Referring to Anthony Marra,
Lisa Woodard-Mink said, “he was so personable and humble and
then he mentioned that he was going to New York to receive an
award.” This year’s Author’s Selection Committee, led by Kathy
Les, did an incredible job of bringing an amazing group of authors
to Authors on the Move.
Photos clockwise from top left: Councilmember Angelique
Ashby, author Keenan Norris, guest Cindy Woodward,
keynote speaker Orville Schell at book signing.
Auctioneer Pat Hume kept bidders engaged and, during this year’s Summer Reading paddle raise, helped garner
$60,650 dollars of support for the Library’s Summer Reading Program. Reversing the summer slide in reading skills
is a challenge for all families and the Library’s summer reading program aims to be part of the solution! The organic
and locally farmed dinner by Chef Jason Poole, paired with S & L Wines, topped the evening with culinary satisfaction!
A special thank you goes out to our authors who helped make the live auction better than ever! Allison Brennan,
Bill Markley, Bob Madgic, Cheewa James, Chris Enss, Chuck McFadden, Eileen Rendahl, John Lescroart, Johnny
Boggs, Judith Horstman, Karen Levy, Keith & Maryellen Burns, Kirstin Chen, Marci Nault, Michael Spurgeon, Sasha
Abramsky, Sherry Monahan, Tess Taylor and Will Bagley.
The combined professionalism of Beth, Pat, Orville, the authors at tables, and the hotel team behind the scenes made
this year’s Authors on the Move a memorable and gratifying evening for all! Thank you to all of our donors who took
part in this year’s Authors on the Move. We really appreciate your support!
East Meets West Hoe Down
Get Your Tickets and Join in the Fun.
Saddle up with western authors for an East Meets West Hoe
Down at the downtown Pagoda building on June 25, 2014. This
is a different kind of author experience reflecting how the West
and East cultures have come together in California. You will
dosey-doe with six award-winning authors including Will Bagley,
Chris Enss, Sherry Monahan, Cheewa James, Johnny Boggs, and
Chris Enss
Nancy Plain.
Food powerhouses Mulvaney’s B & L and Fats Family of Restaurants are
partnering up to provide tasty appetizers and complimentary wine will be
served. And finally the new Confucius Institute at UC Davis is wrangling up a
demonstration on how to make and serve up Chinese dumplings.
A big thank you to Tom Naygrow, who has graciously offered the Pagoda building
at 429 J St (Downtown at 5th & J Streets) to make this event come to life!
The event will go from 5 p.m. to 8.p.m. Parking across the street is easy and
inexpensive. Entrance is $50 per head so call 916.264.2990 and let us know
how many tickets you’re riding into town with.
On May 6,
2014 the
Sacramento
Region
Community
Foundation
is conducting a region-wide
“Day of Giving. Donations
made on this day will be
partially matched, making it a
value-added day to give. You
get this newsletter because you
give, so if you have a friend
that does not give, please
tell them about the work of
the Library Foundation and
how their first gift can make a
difference.
Meet Our Board of Directors
Sacramento Public Library
(Kristan) is serving
Foundation Board Member Kristan
as treasurer of the
Otto, who describes herself as “not
a tax advocate” is, nonetheless,
Yes on Measure B
an advocate for Measure B, the
support committee...
$12 additional library levy on the Sacramento
City June 2014 ballot. She is a developer with
The Ross Company as her firm. She has also served with SACTO, a group
that works to develop and encourage more businesses to come to or grow
in Sacramento. She sees library services, with schools and public safety, as
the essentials in a healthy, prosperous, desirable community. She is serving
as treasurer of the Yes on Measure B support committee to help our City
Libraries maintain locations, hours, and services.
Otto has had a lifelong interest in horseback riding. She grew up in a home on
the edge of Sacramento’s development and could visit horses in the pasture
near their property. Her parents got her lessons and horse jumping became
a passion – until she fell too many times and received concussions that ended
the activity. Now she visits her horse, a very large pet.
Aside from working in real estate development consulting, her current passion
is shot put at the Olympic Masters level. If you think about throwing an eight
pound object 25 feet, you’ll have a sense of the strength and balance training
that this sport entails. She is proud to compete with other people who are in
professional sports activity. In fact, she has just completed her first throw that
involves the twisting “put” that you see in video footage – a feat of balance
that achieves real distance. Otto co-chaired the recent Authors on the Move
as part of the Foundation’s advocacy and fundraising for the library. She
continues to push for the good of the whole community by creating awareness
of the need for accessible resources for everyone across all ages and incomes.
Advocacy Update
Councilmember Angelique Ashby
Learning How to Be There For Our Libraries...
When I ran for office
in 2010 to join the
Sacramento City Council
I knew I would be
fighting for neighbors,
parks, public safety, employment
opportunities, and infrastructure
projects, but I did not anticipate a
need to fight for libraries. Maybe
that is because I took for granted
that the libraries have always
been there in my lifetime. Like
many folks, when I was young I
participated in summer reading
programs. As a teen, and later
as a college student, libraries
were the perfect spot to study
and do research. Now, as a Mom
and community leader, the library
is a great place to take my kids
and to host neighborhood events.
I can succinctly tell you all about
what libraries have meant to me. I
think most people can tell you how
libraries,
It is not just
in one form
or another,
about what the
have offered
them access, libraries have
connectivity,
done for us, it’s
parity and
opportunity. also about what
But the
we need to do for
question I
am asking
our libraries...
at this point
in my life and career is more John
F. Kennedy ‘esque’. It is not just
about what the libraries have done
for us, it’s also about what we need
to do for our libraries right now.
How do we ensure the long term
funding necessary to sustain the
stability our libraries need in order
to continue providing vital services
to our communities?
In Sacramento the answer to that
question is a citywide campaign
to support additional funding by
way of a ballot measure this June
to enhance the funding for our
libraries. The measure is identified
by the letter “B” and as such has
been tagged “Be there for your
libraries!”
The effort to pass this measure
started long ago and included an
intensive partnership between the
library leadership and the most
organized and supportive library
organizations (Friends of the Library
and the Library Foundation). The
success of this ballot measure
hinges on the relationship built
between these three entities.
There are several key principles:
keep costs low, educate the public,
empower volunteers, build a strong
consensus, and develop a strategic
campaign to move things forward.
But all of that’s just political rhetoric
without the team in place to
implement.
As Chair of the Library Authority
and Mayor Pro Tem for the City
of Sacramento, I am driven to see
this ballot measure through. As a
community member, Mom, lifelong
learner, lawyer, and business owner,
I have a renewed gratitude for all
of the people who have dedicated
time, money, and resources to
“being there for our libraries” all
along. It is that foundational long
term commitment that enables an
effort like Sacramento’s Measure
B to ever have a fighting chance at
appropriately funding our libraries.
Thank You!
Major Donors: ($5,000 +)
Tim S. Hallinan & Fred Petrich
Kelly Foundation
Nancy Lawrence & Gordon Klein
Marilyn & Dean Park
Mary Ellen Shay
Union Bank
Director’s Circle ($1,000 - $4,900)
Joseph & Ann Angelo
Barbara J. Arnold, MD
The Avid Reader
Pat E. Canterbury
Cohn Reznick LLP
Stacey & Leland Crawford
Downey Brand LLP
Patricia & Neil Fairbanks
Steven H. & Sandra L. Felderstein
Gregory S. Geeting &
Glee Johnson
David Reed & M.J. Hamilton
Deanna Hanson
Janet Hume
Cecilia Delury & Vincent Jacobs
Mayor Kevin Johnson
Kikkoman Foods Foundation Inc.
Wendy Kirkpatrick
Lady’s Secret Foundation
Kathleen Les & Harold Thomas
Martha Lopez
Douglas Malone & Lisa Heschong
Dr. Dennis & Nancy Marks
Frances B. McVeigh
Stephanie & David Meeker
Burnett & Mimi Miller
Beth Mullen
Elaine Myer
Tom Naygrow
Kristan Otto
Don Pasquini
Jenny & Phil Petersen
Jeff Raimundo & Rebecca LaVally
Beth Ruyak & Mike McWhirter
S & L Vinyards
Patrick & Antionette Sabelhaus
Sacramento Bee
Lisa Sawyer
Robert & Barbara Sawyer
Kimberly A. Smith
Hedda & Tom Smithson
Beth Southorn & Amy Camp
Nancy Stockman
Mary Jo & Jim Streng
Karen Thomas & John McFadden
Wells Fargo Bank
Lisa B. Woodard-Mink
Donald & Gloria Yost
Laureates ($500 - $999)
Rebecca Baumann & Dan
McVeigh
Ian & Kate Boase
Ahamadou & Isabelle Bocar
Lois Bromagem
Confucius Institute at U.C. Davis
Fats Family of Restaurants
Susan Goodrich & Michelle Martin
Cecilia Gray
Dee Hartzog
Robert Honaker
Collette Howell & Aubrey Hubbert
Carolyn Hubbert
Gary R. Hunter
Hyatt Regency Sacramento
Dean G. & Marijane B. Jacobs
Mr. Eric Jones
Irwin Karp & Ann Bancroft
Mann, Urrutia, Nelson CPAs
Debi Jean & Robert Machado
Roberta Marlowe
Josef & Susan Moorehead
Mulvaney’s B & L
James & Carlin Naify
Roxanne O’Brien
Tim & Sally O’Hara
Paul & Claudia Buck Page
Alan M. Roth, M.D.
Abe & Rivkah Sass
Charles & Nancy Shulock
Jerald Silva
Roger A. & Barbara A. Smith
Eric & Araceli Solis
Deidra G. Thorpe
Kathleen Whalen
Wendy & Dean Wood
Nancy C. Woodward
Bibliophiles: ($250 - $499)
John & Karen Agee
Todd & Jennifer Aquilina
Ian & Kate Boase
April L. Butcher & Andrea Javist
Joel & Susan Contreras
Dennis & Jean Corelis
Mary C. Doak
Julia Drake
Vince Elliott
Richard Ellis
Rick & Linda Eytcheson
Janet & Jack Gouge
Pauline Grenbeaux & Gerald Rogan
Christie & Michael Hamm
Fritz Harold & Martha McBride
Dr. & Mrs. James Hepler
B.J. Hoyt
Lial Jones & Stacey Powell
Mimi Kearns
Charles & Mindy King
Kathryn Kirkpatrick
Roz Knight
Tom & Shirlee Krabacher
Brian & Dorothy Landsberg
Jan & Marshall Lee
Ms. Large & Mr. Levinson
S. K. Macomber
Mama Kim Cooks
Dennis H. Mangers & Michael Sestak
Mrs. Georgia McDonald
Humphreys McGee
Brendan & Diane Moore
Fred Morrison & Jennifer Niemann
William & Dr. Joanne Murphy
Dr. Gail K. Mynard
Margaret Kent Newton
Kenneth & Sally Owens
James & Ethel Pascoe
Jenny & Phil Petersen
Michael G. & Susan E. Phillips
Robin Pleau
Ron Pomares & Marilyn Mahoney
Katie McCleary
Kevin & Sarah Price
Devan & Bob Rappleye
Robert & Marilyn Ricci
Ms. Marilyn Parish
Suzette Riddle
Tim & Lorie Shelley
Roger A. & Barbara A. Smith
Sobon Estate & Winery
David Sobon & Anna Sierra
Linda & Harry Struthers
Steve & Susie Swatt
Cathy Taylor
Ron & Linda Tochterman
Van Erp, Petersen & Babcock Llp
Maureen & Jim Wanket
Clayton Whitehead & Rey Guerrero
Lisa B. Woodard-Mink
Stan & Lynn Zumbiel
Literati: ($100 - $249)
Robert & Doris Adam
George W. Adams
Herbert Alber
Christina Allan
Pat Altenburg
Nancy Arndorfer
Catherine Arostegui
Councilmember Angelique Ashby
Carolyn Bahl
Tim Beilby
Surjit & Nancy Bhala
Janet F. Bollinger
Terrie Bressette & Lu J. Hoge
Don & Liz Brodeur
Mr. & Mrs. Geoffrey Brown
Kenneth & Sue Wenrich Bucholz
Geraldine C. Buehler
Ann Burke
William & Karolee Bush
Eileen J. Buxton
Lisa Bynum
Jane Canty
Mr. Caputo III
Lee Champion
Dr. Michael W. & Elizabeth C. Chapman
Ted A. Cobb
Margaret E. Conway
Linda J. Cook
Judy Corderman
Jana Cortez
Jonathan & Terri Cristy
Frank & Mary J. Curtis
Jim & Ann Daniel
Aleck & Nancy Darr
Robin Datel & Dennis Dingerman
Rodney & Susan Davis
Joy M. Doyle
Elizabeth L. Dreher
Scarlet La Rue Edber
Rhonda Egan
Merry A. Ellis
Gregory & Beatrice Favre
Councilmember Darrell R. Fong
Bonnie L. Ford
Carla Foreman
Bamford & Lorraine Frankland
Janet Gilberg
David & Erla Goller
Richard C. Graves
Kathryn & Larry Hanson
Ari & Stacey Hersher
Diana Hoeffner
Marsha Holmes
Collette Howell & Aubrey Hubbert
Patrick & Lisa Hume
Marc & Karen Irish
Douglas A. Jewett
John & Lynnett Johnston
Mary Jones & Kingsley Macomber
Todd & Jennifer Kaufman
Marty & Charlotte Keale
Kathryn Keyes
Barbara W. Kletzman
Brian & Dorothy Landsberg
John & Carrie Lane
Gregory Lee
Richard & Jan Luoma
Susan F. Lyon
Terri Lyn Malmgren
Barry & Carolyn Martin
Stanley M. & Katherine Martinson
Phil J. & Joan D. McDonald
Charles & Barbara McFadden
Douglas J. & Karen L. McGehee
Robert J. & Lisa M. Meline
Dan & Monica Meyer
Sheree & David Meyer
Jona Milo & Don Jarrell
Kenneth L. & Elizabeth P. Mitchell
Julia Moore
Pam Moore
Kurt T. Mueller
Patricia Nelson
Laurie E. Nelson
Tim & Sally O’Hara
Charlie & Phyllis Olivares
Mary B. Palley
Lori Ann Pardau
Kimberly Paul
Howard L. Payne
David J. Rater
Robert J. & Denise A. Reynolds
Robert & Marilyn Ricci
Ms. Marilyn Parish
Bob Richardson
Patricia L. Roberts
J.D. Rowell
Jeff & Rita Rubin
Robert B. Rucker
Pamela G. Saltenberger
Arthur G. & Susan E. Scotland
Anita L. Scuri & J.D. Simon
Margaret & Richard Snider
Edward Speegle
David & Karen Spencer
Donald R. & Dorothy A. Steed
John E. & Janet Whiting Stefanki
Margaret C. Stewart
Richard & Patricia Stewart
Sharon Stokes
Wendy Stokes
Dr. & Mrs. Mark Stoner
Joe Sullivan & Kay Brooks
Gerald & Sandra Swafford
Thomas D. Swift
James & Ellen Taylor
Robert G. Thompson, Jr.
Holly Tigard
Virgil J. & Janet S. Toney, Jr.
James Roy Vasser
Dennis & Arlene Warren
Carole Watson
Wilma R. Zanze
Jeff & Cindy Zettel
In Memory
Dorothy R. Adams
Sandra Cook
Shari Ellis
Eva Z. Holmstrom
Majorie R. Jewett
Charlotte Krale
Mary S. Ming
Jessica Leigh Morehead
Josephine K. Nesbit
Leda Pasquini
Lynn Smith
Nancy Stewart
Lois Warren
Jack Watson
Colleen Wunderlich
In Honor
Cynthia Allan
Joanne Berkowitz (Murphy)
Patricia L. Roberts
Noni Wetzel
Named Emdowments
Boxer Family
Friends of the Sacramento Public
Library
Indru & Pramila Kriplani Trust
Alex Law Memorial Fund
Lois Ann Rosenberg
George J. & Olga Suffal
Contributions received January 14
through March 18, 2014