Organizations Filed Purposes:
Library Support:Friends has an annual direct support program that funds various library programs, resources and equipment. As a community foundation, Friends awards support to the San Francisco Public Library (SFPL) for innovative, free programs and services that are open to everyone across San Francisco in the areas of: children and teens, neighborhood branches, arts and culture, exhibitions, careers and job support ESL and new immigration support, technology and media learning, remote outreach (bookmobiles), and special collections and infrastructure support for affinity centers throughout the Main Library. Examples of popular programs that rely almost exclusively on Friends' support are One City One Book, the Summer Stride Reading and STEM Program, Tricycle Music Festival, and the publication of At the Library, a free newsletter of activities at the Main library and the 27 branches. Friends's funds also support professional development for library staff, including paying for specialized training and conferences, and grants to Librarians, to pilot new innovative services that if successful, are often expanded system wide.Through Friends, community members express their support and aspirations for the SFPL as: - Persuasive Advocates committed to a strong and responsive library with reliable public funding. - Engaged Champions advancing the SFPL's mission for community literacy and expansive free resources and opportunities for everyone.- Generous investors bridging the funding gap between what the city provides and the cost of additional programs, resources and services that San Franciscans want and need.
Community Program: Through ongoing efforts to support the library, Friends connects readers with books and authors. Each year, through its Community Book Program, ("CBP"), Friends takes in over one million (1,000,000), donated books and media, which it in turn resells to the public through two bookstores, online sales and a number of specialty book sales (including some of the largest book sales on the West Coast). The SFPL also selectively acquires rare books from Friends that enhance the SFPL's collections. Many books are also donated to schools and other non-profit organizations.This fiscal year, Friends re-engineered what has been known as Books Operations into the Book Program, embracing its activities more accurately and fueling its growth as a valuable community asset that supports the SFPL's mission for literacy and literary engagement. The Book Programs's four fundamental goals balance literacy and a national model for environmental responsibility. These goals are to: - Increase access to low-cost books and media through multiple venues of convenience and affordability. - Redirect free books from the traditional market to underserved and low-income children and families.- Promote literary engagement through free literary activities. - Keep more than one million books and media out of landfill and recycling plants each year.
Advocacy:Friends continues the tradition of active and vocal support to ensure excellence in library services for all users. Friends' long and successful track record includes its critical role in passing four ballot measures over the last 30 years. Through its advocacy efforts, Friends helped pass a $106 million bond measure to build and refurbish 24 neighborhood branch libraries city-wide (2000, Prop A), championing the Library Preservation Fund, ensuring increased library hours, services and budget (1994, Prop E); spearheading the legislative campaign to build a $109.5 million new Main Library (1988, Prop A) and securing over $9.7 million in state funding. Most recently, Friends helped pass a measure that will bring in over $1.2 billion to the library by renewing the Library Preservation Fund (2007, Prop D). We continue to work with elected officials, community groups and the library administration to ensure a premier library system for San Francisco.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Marie Ciepiela | Executive Director | 35 | $149,843 |
| Craig Palmer | Director of Development | 35 | $135,945 |
| Bob Daffeh | Dir. of Finance & Admin. | 35 | $135,384 |
| Byron J Spooner | Literary Director | 35 | $111,151 |
| Michael Warr | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Sapna Satagopan | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Ashley Nutter | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Daphne Li | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Sarah Jones | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Catherine King | Board Member (End 10/19) | 1 | $0 |
| Sarah Ives | Board Member (Start 1/20) | 1 | $0 |
| Reese Aaron Isbell | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Betsy Klein | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Judith Chi | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Matt Bissinger | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Aurin Bhattacharjee | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Gina Baleria | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Tyrone Cannon | Treas./Board Member(Transition 1/20) | 1 | $0 |
| Gabrielle Bozmarova | Treasurer (Start 1/20) | 1 | $0 |
| Jay Auslander | Sec./Board Member(Transition 1/20) | 1 | $0 |
| Kathy Bella | Secretary (Start 1/20) | 1 | $0 |
| Elizabeth Kelly | Vice Chair | 1 | $0 |
| David Stringer-Calvert | Chair | 1 | $0 |
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