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Sponsors and Community Partners

The Ridgefield Library is grateful to the following sponsors and community partners who have helped enrich and expand the many resources and programs the Library is able to offer the community, either through financial assistance or as co-sponsors for programs and services.

The Library relies on many local organizations like the League of Women Voters and RACE to bring forward ideas and resources for co-sponsored programs, while the Library provides physical space they lack and a wide network of communications channels to spread the word. The Library also often co-sponsors and helps promote events held by our partners in their own venues (such as Books on the Common, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and Keeler Tavern).

The Library frequently organizes community-wide educational initiatives that engage numerous organizations in town. Recent projects include The Big Read: Ridgefield Reads The Grapes of Wrath and the International Year of Astronomy.

Contact: Mary Rindfleisch, Assistant Director, 203-438-2282 x1009 mfrind@ridgefieldlibrary.org

Program Sponsors | Community Partners

 

Program Sponsors

Friends of the Ridgefield Library

The Friends of the Ridgefield Library is a key partner in nearly every aspect of the Library. Their financial and volunteer support makes possible many of our most popular offerings such as the annual Summer Reading Program and the Ridgefield Folk series.

 
Donofrio Family

The Donofrio family provides funding for the Donofrio Technology Series, a series of educational programs that aim to encourage young people, especially girls and minorities, to pursue careers in engineering, science and technology.

 
Wadsworth Russell Lewis Fund

The Wadsworth Russell Lewis Fund helps the Library present programs that engage the community, such as the current multi-session, multi-media commemoration of the life and works of Charles Dickens..

 
 Film Series

The twice monthly Hollister Film series is made possible thanks to a generous individual donor.

 
Books on the Common

Books on the Common, Ridgefield’s independent book store, co-sponsors the Library’s Author Talk series, and supports the Library during their Ridgefield Library Days promotion.

 


Piccolo Pizza, Pasta & Catering supports the Library with a fundraising promotion to celebrate the end of Summer Reading.

 


Summer Reading 2011 was supported by incentives donated by The Toy Chest, Deborah Anne's Sweet Shoppe, Piccolo Pizza, the Ridgefield Playhouse and Ridgefield Parks and Recreation.

Community Partners

In addition to the ongoing partnerships listed below, in 2010-2011 the Library collaborated with the following on a variety of programs and services:

Ayindisi, Book Groups for Literacy, The Enchanted Garden, Hearts and Minds Music, Michael Chekov Festival, Newcomers Club, Productions for Young People (PYP), Ridgefield Boys and Girls Club, Ridgefield Community Center, Ridgefield Crossings, Ridgefield Lyme Disease Task Force and Ridgefield Health Department, RMAC, Western Connecticut Youth Orchestra, Womenheart, Woodcock Nature Center

Thanks to Jesse Lee Day School, Ridgefield Community Kindergarten, Almost Home Day Care, The Children's Corner, Creative Children's Corner, My Nursery School, Ridgefield Montessori School, St. Stephen's Preschool and The Growing Tree. The Library's Miss Diane visits these organizations regularly to present special story times and, in turn, many of them provide children's artwork for display in the stairway leading to Children's Services.

The Ridgefield Public Schools welcome Library staff regularly for before, during and after school enrichment programs, and the Library hosts frequent field trips by young students and their teachers, as well as the annual East Ridge Poetry Night. Library-initiated programs have brought scientists, performers and others into the classroom as part of The Big Read, the International Year of Astronomy and Einstein's Big Idea.

 

The Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and the Performing Arts was the Library's partner in The Big Read and has been generous with making its stage available for Library programs such as appearances by Frank McCourt and Mary Higgins Clark.

 
Ridgefield Guild of Artists

The Ridgefield Guild of Artists co-sponsors the Library’s ARTalk series, a series of art, architecture, and design lectures, workshops and art field trips.

 
Ridgefield Chamber of Commerce

The Ridgefield Chamber of Commerce co-sponsors programs at the Library to help local businesses, entrepreneurs and job seekers. The Library also takes an active role in Chamber-sponsored events such as Fall for Ridgefield Weekend.

Downtown Ridgefield

The Library is proud to work with its neighbors in the Downtown Ridgefield organization on events such as the Holiday Stroll.

 
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art

Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art partners with the Library for their Draw On! program and other creative projects, most notably Advancing Creative Thinking: Imagination to Innovation, a two-day conference on creativity to be held April 27-28, 2012.

 
Ridgefield Action Committee for the Environment

Ridgefield Action Committee for the Environment (RACE) co-sponsors programs throughout the year to encourage good stewardship of the environment.

 
Ridgefield's League of Women Voters

 

Ridgefield’s League of Women Voters co-sponsors programs to encourage informed voting and other issues relating to voting and women’s rights.

 

The Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra presents frequent pre-concert music appreciation lectures at the Library and often includes special works in its repertoire as part of programs such as the International Year of Astronomy.

 

 

Therapy dogs from ROAR are a popular part of our childhood literacy programs - and seem to enjoy being read to as much as children enjoy reading to them.

Ridgefield Cultural Festival

 

The Library partners with the Ridgefield Arts Council on the annual Cultural Festival and other projects to promote the arts, including the forthcoming creativity conference.

 

Library staff members have presented monthly book discussions and occasional other educational programs at Founders Hall since it opened its doors 10 years ago.

Ridgefield Branch of the American Association of University Women

 

The Ridgefield branch of the American Association of University Women co-sponsors lectures, film screenings and more.

 

The Library has served as the public gallery for the Lions Club Peace Poster contest for many years.

 

 

Ridgefield Visiting Nurse Association co-sponsors numerous programs related to health and wellness

 

 

The Library is pleased to participate in the Keeler Tavern's annual Hunt for Mary Keeler's Lost Lamb and to welcome the Tavern as the venue for a sold-out Victorian Tea as part of this winter's What the Dickens! program.

 

The Ridgefield Prevention Council co-sponsors programs that support a safe and healthy environment for all of Ridgefield's families.

 

Discovery CenterThe Discovery Center co-sponsors many imaginative and educational programs at the Library.

 

 


Ridgefield Green Village Initiative co-sponsors programs throughout the year to encourage good stewardship of the environment.

 



The Library has been a frequent host to programs related to the town's participation in the Neighbor to Neighbor Energy Challenge.

HVCA
The Library collaborates with The Housatonic Valley Cultural Alliance to promote arts, culture and history in Western Connecticut.

 

 

 

To become a program sponsor contact: mfrind@ridgefieldlibrary.org

To co-sponsor a program contact: libraryprograms
@ridgefieldlibrary.org

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