Your donations to FFRPL help support the Library’s community impact through:

Legacy programs

• Books Sandwiched In reviews
• Tuesday Topics
• Annual Sokol H.S. Literary Awards

Collections

• Books & materials, e-books, DVD’s

Unique Resources for Loan

• Framed artwork, ukuleles and sewing machines at Central Library
• Thousands of toys at the Lincoln Branch’s Toy Library
• Empire Passes for FREE entry at NY State Parks
• A portable document reader that can magnify materials up to 131x
• Pre-loaded GoChip Beam movies with wifi hotspots (with support from the Reynolds Library Board)

Creation of Special Spaces

• imagineYOU Digital Media Learning Lab for teens
• Renovation of Central Library’s newly named Kusler-Cox Auditorium (2018)
• Health Central – volunteer medical professionals screen blood pressure, body mass index and glucose levels for patrons at no charge

Community Collaborations

• Terrace Revitalization Project (2019), in partnership with the City, County, key community stakeholders, Board and Art committee members, donors and patrons: renovation of infrastructure, large-scale public art, community gathering spaces and site-specific historical information
• Safe to be Smart youth program at Central Library and five city branches (since 2000)
• Partnership with Writers & Books in support of Rochester Reads
  • Novelist Omar El Akkad, American War (2019)
  • Novelist and memoirist Reyna Grande, The Distance Between Us (2018)
  • Novelist Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted (2017)
  • Essayist and memoirist Sonja Livingston, Queen of the Fall (2016)
  • Novelist Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles (2015)
• Sponsorship of Greater Rochester Teen Read authors G. Neri (2019) and Laurie Halse Anderson (2018)

Special Events

• Annual Publishers’ Circle Library Celebration Dinner
  • Palaces for the People author Eric Klinenberg (Nov. 2019)
  • Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston (Nov. 2018)
  • Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Amy Goldstein (Nov. 2017)
• Award-winning adventurer Jennifer Pharr Davis (April 2018)
• Libraries After Dark: May the 4^th Be With You (May 2018)
• Libraries After Dark: Fringe Carnival @ Central Library (Sept. 2018)
• Young Adult fiction superstar Rick Riordan (Oct. 2017)

Free Computer Access

• Support for health and business database subscriptions at Central Library
• Computer classes at Central Library in English and Spanish

Exhibits

• Punjab: Land of Five Rivers (Dec. 1, 2021 – March 5, 2022)
  
• Thrift Style (2021)
• Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race (2020)
• Stonewall @ 50 (2019)
• Crafting Democracy (2019)
• International Art of the Book (annual)
• NY State Suffrage Centennial’s Because of Women Like Her (2017)