ALA depends on more than members’ dues, sales of publications, conference registrations, and grants for the revenue it needs to provide services to its members and the library community. You can help assure ALA’s financial future and the strength of some of its programs by making a donation. Please consider supporting one or more of the following causes. All it takes is your generosity and a click. With the exception of the ALA-APA, contributions to these ALA initiatives are tax deductible. Click here to donate online!
 |
|
|
| ALA-APA The ALA Allied Professional Association (ALA-APA) is a nonprofit professional organization established “to promote the mutual professional interests of librarians and other library workers.” To that end, the ALA-APA is focused on two broad areas: Certification of individuals in specializations beyond the initial professional degree. Direct support of comparable worth and pay equity initiatives, and other activities designed to improve the salaries and status of librarians and other library workers. |
|
 |
| ALA Endowment Fund This fund generates interest/dividend income, which is used to support programs, scholarships, awards and special initiatives. It is an ongoing source of funding (revenue) for programs and activities. |
||
| ALA Scholarship Fund 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. |
||
| ALA Spectrum Initiative The Spectrum Initiative is committed to improving service at the local level through the development of a representative workforce that reflects the communities served by all libraries. It does this through scholarships, fund-raising, recruitment, mentoring, leadership and professional development. |
||
| Campaign for America’s Libraries The Campaign for America's libraries is ALA’s multi-year public awareness and advocacy campaign designed to showcase the value of public, school, academic and special libraries and librarians in the 21st century. |
|
 |
| Cultural Communities Fund Cultural Communities Fund, an endowment to support cultural programming in libraries. The National Endowment for the Humanities has offered a Challenge Grant of matching funds in response. There’s no better time to maximize an investment in cultural programming. |
|
 |
| Freedom to Read Foundation The Freedom to Read Foundation was established to promote and defend this right; to foster libraries and institutions wherein every individual’s First Amendment freedoms are fulfilled; and to support the right of libraries to include in their collections and make available any work which they may legally acquire. |
|
 |
| Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund The American Library Association (ALA) is accepting donations which will be distributed to the behalf of the ALA Chapters (state library associations) in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi. |
||
| LeRoy C. Merritt Humanitarian Fund The LeRoy C. Merritt Humanitarian Fund, established in 1970 as a special trust in memory of Dr. LeRoy C. Merritt, is devoted to the support, maintenance, medical care, and welfare of librarians who, in the Trustees’ opinion, are denied employment rights or discriminated against on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, age, disability, or place of national origin or denied employment rights because of defense of intellectual freedom. |
|
 |