A letter to our wonderful MLP Community
I’m Robin Carpenter and I was honored to become a member of the MLP Board last November. I’m now serving as the Board President and also volunteering as our Interim Executive Director. Over these past ten months there have been many changes for MLP. The board realized that we needed to streamline to avoid deficit spending, particularly in the face of the loss of state funding. To achieve this the board agreed to move from an advisory and fundraising focused board to a hands-on managing board. Our first step was to enlist the aid of a consultant through CVNL, Ira Okun, who has a wealth of experience dealing with the types of challenges facing MLP.
We revised our bylaws to broaden our focus beyond partnering only with the Marin County Free Library and the City of San Rafael. We agreed to hire an independent Executive Director working directly for the MLP board and enter into partnership agreements with any libraries, cities or other organizations that would work with us in our mission to promote literacy.
Due to budgetary issues the City of San Rafael isn’t providing staffing at the San Rafael Library locations after September 15th, but are still graciously providing us space. We will have MLP staff there and of course our intrepid volunteers and plan to stay open on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 10am to 6 pm. We will be doing an Orientation in early September and Tutor Trainings in October and November.
Other major components of MLP remain intact and are continuing to serve their communities efficiently and effectively. FLAGship (Families Learning and Growing) is funded by First Five of Marin through next June and the West Marin Literacy program, continues to be funded by the Marin County Free Library.
On the first of September we mailed a letter with more information, which you can read by clicking here.
Our FLAGship FUNdraiser was a huge success.
Thank you to all of our supporters who came to Give Back Tuesday at Ironsprings Pub and Brewery. We were told that it was their busiest Give Back Tuesday ever and we'll let you know how much we raised when the numbers are in. Thank you Ironsprings for giving back to FLAGship. You can keep up with the further adventures of FLAGship by liking our Facebook page!
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