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 a total of $82,676 in donations to and purchases for the Margaret E Heggan Free Public Library. In addition, The Friends have given the library annual cash donations. With the latest donation of $8,419 given to the Library in January 2023, our cumulative total is $151,529 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.
The 2023 donation has been used toward the following 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 a total of $82,676 in donations to and purchases for the Margaret E Heggan Free Public Library. In addition, The Friends have given the library annual cash donations. With the latest donation of $8,419 given to the Library in January 2023, our cumulative total is $151,529 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.
The 2023 donation has been used toward the following programs:
- $576.30 to support children’s service including the purchase of a new American Girl Doll, Courtney, and related items, and to host a tea party for children in January.
- $935 to support library services to all ages by purchasing a movie license so that movies can be shown to the public in the library throughout the years.
- $1945.13 to support the adult large print collection by purchasing 63 new books. Bookplates have been added to all these books acknowledging the Friends of the Library for their financial contribution.
- $2349 to support all ages by purchasing a subscription to BookPage for the year. Labels were added to all copies given to the public crediting Friends of the library for their financial support,
- $80 to support the adult summer reading program by purchasing 2 tickets to Grease at the Broadway Theater of Pitman as part of the free raffle for adult Heggan cardholders.
- $2220.00 Early Literacy Station in our Children's Library. Designed for children ages 2-8.
- Library Card Sign-Up Month raffle items: 4 tickets to Cooking with the Calamari Sisters (adults), a Regal Cinema Gift Card (teens), and 5 tickets to The Littlest Pumpkin (children).
