Upcoming events
Give Local Solano
Celebrate Giving Tuesday by Donating to the Solano County Library Foundation through Give Local Solano
#GivingTuesday is a global day of giving that harnesses the collective power of individuals, communities and organizations to encourage philanthropy and to celebrate generosity worldwide. Following Thanksgiving and the widely recognized shopping events Black Friday and Cyber Monday, this year’s #GivingTuesday will take place on November 27th and will kick off the giving season by inspiring people to collaborate and give back .
Give Local Solano 2018 is a Solano County-wide day of giving held in conjunction with #GivingTuesday, the global day of giving. It is a program of the Solano Community Foundation.
Our program, Reach Out and Read, gives young children a foundation for success by incorporating books into pediatric care and encouraging families to read aloud together, handed out over 11,000 books in 2017. We celebrated a milestone this year of having supplied 250,000 books since the program’s inception in 1999.
Our program, Tutor.com, combines live online tutoring, homework help, and test preparation with highly qualified tutors in a variety of subjects from algebra, calculus, and statistics to English, chemistry, and physics, provided over 7000 tutoring sessions inn 2017.
Visit www.givelocalsolano.org to find out more and to give to the Solano County Library Foundation on Tuesday, November 27, 2018.
Solano County Library Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Tax ID # 68-0342423.
Other Events
Women's History Luncheon
Mark your calendar for March 15, 2019 the date for this year's luncheon. The Foundation hosts this women's history luncheon to help support the library's women's history month programing.
Authors Luncheon
For over 18 years the Foundation has supported this literacy event that brings contemporary authors to speak about their lives and their books. This is the Foundation's major fundraiser. This event is held each year in November. See this article in the Daily Republic about November 4, 2018 event.