Funded with Our Mission
To support the Margaret E. Heggan Free Public Library, the Friends of the Margaret E. Heggan Free Public Library of Washington Township is a private non-profit corporation founded in 2005 whose purposes include stimulating interest in and use of the library and engendering good will toward the library.
If you are interested in making sure that the written word is made available to all residents, in promoting reading for knowledge, information and pleasure, and in joining together with other like-minded residents, be a true Friend of the Library. We invite you to become an active member and join us at our meetings on the third Tuesday of the month at 4:00 p.m. in the library. Membership fees and all monies earned by the Friends are donated to the library in the form of library materials, building needs, and programs.
Please join us in this effort and enjoy the good feeling that comes with helping the Library to continue to enrich the lives of all residents of our community.
Since 2005, the Friends have made an annual cash donation to and purchases for the Margaret E Heggan Free Public Library. With the latest donation of $10,000 given to the Library in January 2024, our cumulative total is $161,529 since 2005.
The primary fundraiser is book sales through the Friends' Bookstore. THANK YOU to all of the book donors who keep our bins full so that the book supply is always fresh. THANK YOU to Bookstore frequenters who keep the income flowing with used book purchases.
A few ways recent fundraising donations have been used to support Library programs…
To support the Margaret E. Heggan Free Public Library, the Friends of the Margaret E. Heggan Free Public Library of Washington Township is a private non-profit corporation founded in 2005 whose purposes include stimulating interest in and use of the library and engendering good will toward the library.
If you are interested in making sure that the written word is made available to all residents, in promoting reading for knowledge, information and pleasure, and in joining together with other like-minded residents, be a true Friend of the Library. We invite you to become an active member and join us at our meetings on the third Tuesday of the month at 4:00 p.m. in the library. Membership fees and all monies earned by the Friends are donated to the library in the form of library materials, building needs, and programs.
Please join us in this effort and enjoy the good feeling that comes with helping the Library to continue to enrich the lives of all residents of our community.
Since 2005, the Friends have made an annual cash donation to and purchases for the Margaret E Heggan Free Public Library. With the latest donation of $10,000 given to the Library in January 2024, our cumulative total is $161,529 since 2005.
The primary fundraiser is book sales through the Friends' Bookstore. THANK YOU to all of the book donors who keep our bins full so that the book supply is always fresh. THANK YOU to Bookstore frequenters who keep the income flowing with used book purchases.
A few ways recent fundraising donations have been used to support Library programs…
- Annual subscription to BookPage.
- Early Literacy Computer Station in our Children's Library. Designed for children ages 2-8.
- Additional books for the adult large print collection. Sixty-three books purchased in 2023 plus 80 books in 2024. Bookplates were added to these books acknowledging the Friends of the Library for their financial contribution.
- Purchase of a movie license so movies can be shown to the public in the library throughout the year.
- Ice cream coupons for the children’s summer reading program. Local Theater tickets for the free summer reading program raffle for adult Heggan cardholders. Plus, a variety of Library Card Sign-Up Month raffle items.
- Additional projects funded with financial support from the Friends include landscaping, irrigation, and LED lighting upgrades, plus a beautiful decorative bench sculpture.
