How You Can Contribute

Become a member at a level comfortable for you
BENEFACTOR ($500) Enables us to purchase 100 books in Spanish for our bookmobile and reading programs. Thank you! You will receive 2 free tickets to our fundraisers, including the Holiday Home and Hidden Garden|Outdoor Spaces Tours, and your 1-year membership in Friends of the Library.
PATRON ($200) Enables us to purchase at least 40 books in Spanish for our programs. Thank you! You will receive 2 free tickets to the Holiday Home Tour and Hidden Garden|Outdoor Spaces Tour, special member pricing on any other fundraiser event, and your 1-year membership in FOL.
DONOR ($100) Fills our Bookmobile gas tank! Thank you! Your donation includes your 1-year membership in FOL Thank you! You will receive 2 free tickets to the Holiday Home Tour, special member pricing on any other fundraiser event, and your 1-year membership in FOL.
SUPPORTER ($50) Enables us to purchase at least 10 books in Spanish for our programs. Thank you! Includes special member pricing on any of our fundraiser events and your one-year membership in FOL.
MEMBER ($25) Your one-year membership supports reading in Rosarito and entitles you to special member pricing on any of our fundraiser events.
TEACHER/PARENT ($5) This (non-voting) membership category is for local parents and teachers who wish to support our programs and demonstrate to the community their belief in the importance of reading. This membership enables us to purchase one book for our programs and entitles you to special member pricing for our fundraiser events.

Other ways you can contribute

as a School Sponsor
with a donation of any amount
as an active Volunteer

We have exciting plans for the future

Continuing to bring our bookmobile to neighborhoods with no access to library branches and using it to create "pop up" reading programs where the bookmobile itself cannot gain access
Senior Reading Circles for older Rosarito residents, with opportunity to share their own life stories as they read
Family reading programs
Continued book donations to libraries to build their collections
Continued sponsorship of reading promotion events in the community
Continuing all of the programs we already have underway

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Give the gift of reading. Honor someone on their birthday, anniversary or other gift occasion with a contribution to one of our reading programs. Just click on the "gift books" and head to PayPal to honor them by giving back to the community in their name. Please give us their name and email address in the Special Instructions at PayPal and we will send them an acknowledgment.

Or make a donation in any amount:

With your support, the Rosarito Friends of the Library has accomplished many things. Here are some of our successes:

Seven years of the Rosarito city-wide reading initiative, Rosarito lee (Rosarito reads) now called Somos Lectores (We are readers), with programs in all 5 libraries, local schools, visits by the authors, and a Gran Evento at the Centro de Convenciones.
Our pivot, after Covid-19 led to Safer at Home/Quedarse en Casa restrictions, to the digital content in our interactive Somos Lectores... a distancia website, online book clubs and reading circles
The inauguration of our Bookmobile in 2019 to reach areas with no access to libraries, now a beloved part of the Rosarito community
Expansion of the Rosarito Lee program into the La Mision area and into a Tijuana school near the northern end of Rosarito
Moms and Tots Story Time reading program in conjunction with Grupo Inicial de Educacion no Escolarizada (Early Childhood Education group)
We donated more than $7,000 worth of Spanish language books to the local public libraries
We donated more than $2,500 worth of library/art/craft supplies to the five libraries:
We sponsored and ran children’s reading programs at all five public libraries.
We've given prizes of new bicycles, skates, scooters, backpacks, books and school supplies to participants in the children’s reading programs. Sometimes tangible rewards can motivate reading at the beginning until the children realize that reading is its own reward

How is all this possible? It takes members.... and some of those members volunteering some of their time. Please consider joining the roster of FOL current members - at a level comfortable for you.

To continue these wonderful projects, and to expand them, the organization seeks to engage new members and volunteers. Annual memberships are available at six levels. MAKE AN IMPACT, starting at only $15. We are a 501(c)3 organization AND ALL DONATIONS ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE TO THE FULL EXTENT OF THE LAW:

BENEFACTOR ($500) Enables us to purchase 100 books in Spanish for our bookmobile and reading programs. Thank you! You will receive 2 free tickets to our fundraisers, including the Holiday Home and Hidden Garden|Outdoor Spaces Tours, and your 1-year membership in Friends of the Library.
PATRON ($200) Enables us to purchase at least 40 books in Spanish for our programs. Thank you! You will receive 2 free tickets to the Holiday Home Tour and Hidden Garden|Outdoor Spaces Tour, special member pricing on any other fundraiser event, and your 1-year membership in FOL.
DONOR ($100) Fills our Bookmobile gas tank! Thank you! Your donation includes your 1-year membership in FOL Thank you! You will receive 2 free tickets to the Holiday Home Tour, special member pricing on any other fundraiser event, and your 1-year membership in FOL.
SUPPORTER ($50) Enables us to purchase at least 10 books in Spanish for our programs. Thank you! Includes special member pricing on any of our fundraiser events and your one-year membership in FOL.
MEMBER ($25) Your one-year membership supports reading in Rosarito and entitles you to special member pricing on any of our fundraiser events.
TEACHER/PARENT ($5) This membership category is for local parents and teachers who wish to support and be a sounding board for our programs and demonstrate to the community their belief in the importance of reading. Each of these non-voting memberships enables us to purchase one book for our programs and entitles the member to special member pricing for any of our fundraiser events.

Memberships are available from any FOL Board member or through PayPal. Checks should be made payable to Rosarito Friends of the Library, and they can also be mailed to:

Friends of the Library
PO Box 439060
PMB 351
San Ysidro, CA 92143