Joining MALF promotes the free exchange of ideas among Friends of the Library groups in Minnesota and helps MALF to carry out its mission.

Resources include:

• Grant opportunities for new Friends groups, inc. applicants for non-profit status
• An opportunity to apply for the Evy Nordley Award for Best Project of the Year by Friends of the Library - our flagship award
• Members-only quarterly print newsletters
• Advice on select topics, and referrals to consultant versed in Friends issues as appropriate
• A statewide voice for Friends, at the local, regional and national levels

Resources

Created by our parent group, United for Libraries, the tips and lists linked below should provide an excellent place to begin.  (If you are already an old hand, look at some of the retention and revitalization sheets.)  MALF wishes to express its gratitude for the work done by United for Libraries on behalf of us all.

Additionally, you may find valuable a vareity of Minnesota-specific resources we've grouped towards the bottom. Remember, if you need something and can't find it here, you can always email us at info@mnlibraryfriends.org.

Minnesota Association of Library Friends

2017

• "Empowering Friends to Tell the Library's Story," by Dr. Julie Todaro (from Empowering Friends fall workshop series)

2015

• "The Future of Friends Fundraising," by Stu Wilson (from Beyond Book Sales fall workshop series)
• Fall Workshop Handouts on Friends Fundraising Strategies, by Stu Wilson (from Beyond Book Sales workshop series) 

2014

• "Beyond the Book Sale: Raising Real Money for Your Library," by Susan Dowd (from 2014 MLA Conference) 
• Guidelines for Organization: Friends of the Library (3rd Ed.)
• "Ten Things I Know to be True," by Melissa Brechon (from Strengthening Libraries Together workshop series).

United for Libraries

• How to Organize a Friends Group
• Fundraising Campaigns Best Practices
• A Checklist for Planning Successful Programs
• How to Organize an Academic Friends Group
• How to Organize a Teen Friends of the Library Group
• How to Organize a Friends of the School Library Group
• How to Revitalize Your Friends Group
• Getting Involved with Literacy Programs
• Planning a Friends Author Event
• The Role of the Friends Board
• The Role of a Library Trustee
• Designating a Literary Landmark
• Checklist for Advocacy
• Friends Board Development
• Moving to Center Stage in the Community
• How to Organize a Friends Foundation
• Getting and Keeping Members
• Branch Friends of the Library
• Checklist for Friends Board Strategic Planning
• Friends Board Diversity
• Guidelines for Giving
• Advocacy Campaigns and Spending Limits for Nonprofits
• Planned Giving
• Sample Memorandum of Understanding
• Library Support for Friends Activities
• When Friends Aren't Friendly
• Sample Document Retention/Destruction Policy
• Orienting New, Active Members
• When A Friend Steps Out of Bounds...

• 501c3 Questions -- and Answers!, archived MALF/MLA panel, courtesy of Charley Ravine, MAP for Nonprofits
• Complete List of Minnesota Public Libraries
• Grants and Libraries: Leveraging Resources to Strengthen Service, archived MALF/MLA panel, courtesy of Jennifer R. Nelson, Minnesota State Librarian
• Minnesota Council of Nonprofits 'Principles & Practices' - v2013
• Minnesota State Laws Governing Friends' Fundraising Events
• Minnesota State Laws Governing Friends' Fundraising Sales
• Useful List of Library-related Acronyms, courtesy of SELCO

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