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Friends of the Bridgeport Public Library

 

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Save the Date! Saturday, February 13 @ Black Rock Library
Save the Date! Saturday, February 13 @ Black Rock Library

 

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Purchase Mardi Gras Tickets ONLINE or call: 203.576.7777 or email: Friends@bridgeportpubliclibrary.org 

Thank you Friends and Community Supporters for organizing, advocating, voting, and supporting the 2009 Library Referendum! With your help we have established a sustainable budget for the Bridgeport Public Library. Funds will be not be available until July 2010, the Library will be presenting their new Strategic Plan to the community shortly. Stay tuned! 

Membership Drive- Did you help with the library referendum? Do you love the library? Are you Artistic? Talented? Dedicated? Organized? Motivated? Do you have Ideas? If any of the above questions sound like you, PLEASE come to a Friends of the Library meeting. We need your support as we move forward. Meetings are held every 2nd Thursday of the month on the 3rd Floor Board Room, Burroughs & Saden Main Library Branch. For more information email: Friends@bportlibrary.org 

2010 Friends Board Meetings; 2nd Thursday of the month @ 7:00 pm 

  • January 14
  • February 11
  • March 11
  • April 8
  • May 13
  • June 10
  • July 8
  • August 12
  • September 9
  • October 14
  • November 11
  • December 9

Become a Friend of the Library 

The Friends of the Bridgeport Public Library, Inc. founded in 2002, is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization charged with advocacy, fundraising, and programming initiatives to help make our libraries thriving community centers of discovery and lifelong learning. Contributions to the Friends provide the Library purchasing power beyond its municipal allocations. Funds have sponsored a wide range of free Library programs and services that have a positive impact on community members across Bridgeport. 

JOIN THE FRIENDS BY MAIL
Click Here to access a form that allows you to provide your information and designate your donation. 

A printable sheet is produced for you to mail to: 

The Bridgeport Public LIbrary
925 Broad Street
Bridgeport, CT 06604 

When mailing a check, please indicate your designation on the check’s memo line. 

JOIN THE FRIENDS ONLINE- write in the notes field that you would like to join the Friends and any other information you would like to provide us. 

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updated December, 2009   

LIFETIME ($10,000+)

The Aiello Family Foundation

PATRON ($1,000)

Thomas Errichetti
Marta Jo Lawrence

BENEFACTOR ($500)

Robert & Sheila Hughes

SPONSOR ($250)

Maxine Bleiweis & Joel Lang
Ralph Council
Miguel Felix
Joseph & Peggy Ianniello
Jane W. St. Onge
Janet Toplansky

ADVOCATE ($100)

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Michael & Claudine Baransky
Lilia E. Figueroa
Edwin A. Gomes
Barry & Lilyan Hawkins
Karen Hunter & Patrick Bowen
Jayanthi & Ramchandra Iyengar
Gerald P. Lawlor
Carol Leighton
Carmen Lopez & Dale W. Radcliffe
Daniel & Maria O’Neill
Howard T. Owens Jr.
Ellen Richard
Jack Scanlon
Armin K.F. Schomburg
Donna Spigarolo
Alexandra & Peter Oldershaw
Ms. Mary-Jane Foster

FAMILY ($25+)

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Eric Arnett
David & Carin Barbour
Gloria Binkley
Emeline Blackwood
Harold & Marguerite Brienes
Janet Byrne
Edith Cassidy
Jacqueline Cintron
Wendy L. Daley & Marc Disilvestro
Katryn Doud
Brad Durrell
Knapik/Robison Family
Bill & Agnes Feige
Mary Ann & Cosmo Filiberto
Barbara & Henro Higgins
Carl & Barbara Johnson
Edward & Anne Kamens
Anne Glazebrook Kehoe
Jim Klewicki
Bert & Janet Krauss
Anne LaBelle
William J. Lavery
John Marshall Lee
Maura McNeil
Hely U. Moore
Alice Nealon
Cornelia O’Neill
Laura Pennock
Kathryn Reese
Caroline & Abraham Reyes
Frank & Gioia Riccio
Peter & Agneta Smith
Suzanne Solensky & Jay Rozgonyi
Ben A. Solnit
Shelley Strohm
Christine Toni
Kim McLaughlin & Robert Traber
Diedrik & Kathryn Van Renesse
Lucille & Peter Vecchiarelli
Andrea Vielmetti
Susan & Scott Warner
Barbara Bresler
Brad R Durrell
Maria McNeil
Susan Errichetti
John Dibella

FRIEND ($10)

Lusine Abovyan
Margaret Amoroso
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Ann M. Argust
Karry Ballard
Michael Barber
Lydia Barrieau
Ellen Beveridge
Irene Billings
Margaret Blagys
Joseph Brochin
Dori Buster-Hanson
Mary Carrano
Diane Cavallo
Laura Cerino
Vichitpundhu Chuasomboon
Dorothy Cicero
Denise L. Clemons
Marie Coppola
Mary Jo Creatore
Nannette Cristino
Abi Eiger
Thomas Evans
Richard Fewell
Sylvia Fidellman
Gloria Francesconi
Angela Frusciante
Lois Gebeau
Franklyn Green
Ruth Green
Barbara Hall
Marie Halstead
Ali Jasim
Judith Jones
John Kraynak
Beth Lazar
Mary M. Lazo
Lorraine Liquigli
Paula Maurao
Noa Mayerson
S. Judith McDermott
James McMahon
Joyce McPherson
Josephine Messina
Margaret Michaels
Edna M. Miller
Loretta Mitro
Joan Moran
Paul Morton
Ho Van Nguyen
Kimberly Nordling-Curtin
Wendy Nylen
John Olson
George Oviatt
Irma Palko
Ann Parker
Raymond Prunier
Betsy Ross
Gillian Sarjeant
Brett Scheid
Rachel Schrank
Bella Shiferman
Emma Shtypel
Rudolph & Helen Shupik
Rose Smith
Gloria Steele
Keith Stetson
Ora Lee Stokes
Eleanor Suden
Nancy Teixeira
Rick Torres
Stan & Gilda Vogel
Diane Vulcano
Dorothy Wagner
Herbert F. Walker
Sylvia Walter
Marion Weldon
Jean B. Wilson
Judith Zaluda
Pamela L. Zimmer
Laura Zofcak
Deborah & Wallace Zuckerman
Mike & Nancy Szwejkuwski
Lashaunda Jones
Selma Shzketoff
Jess Friedman

THANK YOU FRIENDS!