How Many Ways Can You Support Our Library?

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Become a volunteer and donate your time and energy.  There's always a need for volunteers to read (and sing) with children or to serve as after-school tutors for local students. Volunteers help in many ways to supplement our bare-bones library staff so that we can offer more programs and serve more patrons.  Call 575-581-4608 for details.  Adult literacy training is being offered in Espanola for persons wishing to train to become volunteer teachers of reading skills in our library.  Contact Rio Arriba Adult Literacy or 505-747-6162. The training is free.
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Be an advocate for NM's rural libraries to the 2024-2025 state legislative winter sessions.
We need the legislature to fully fund at a level of $50 M for the established NM Rural Libraries Endowment Fund while the state has a budget surplus.  We only need another $27 M to make this goal.  Find postcards you can personalize at the library to individual legislators beginning the first week of November, 2024. 

Give to our fundraiser solicitations:
In 2024 we plan to conduct an end-of-the year fundraising effort with a goal to raise $10,000.  (100 persons/$100). 

Our December 7th Holiday party will feature a Silent Fundraising Art Auction, followed by good food and festivities for all ages.  Donations accepted for the Auction beginning 1 November.
Why do we need help?
Our sparsely populated village has  around 1,100  scattered residents who call El Rito home.  In 2023 we must generate at least $90,000 in grants, donations, and fundraising campaigns to pay the bills, buy books and run our programs.  

​If this this doesn't scare you away - please consider joining our Board of Directors and support us with your guidance and insight! Our Board meetings are open to the public and held the 2nd Thursday of each month at Noon.
Other Way to Donate:
Check whether your employer will match or add to your payroll monthly contribution to our library through United Way, PNM and others.
Make a Gift in honor of a much loved friend or familly. Endowments can help us create new staff positions, finish old or start new building projects, and create on-going programs to serve this community.   
Remember this library in your Estate Planning  We now have an El Rito Library Endowment Fund established Feb. 2022 with the Santa Fe Community Foundation. This Fund can receive gifts of cash, stocks, or real estate. Contact El Rito Library Director Lynett Gillette director@elritolibrary.org. or Gabriela Gomez at the Santa Fe Community Foundation ggomez@santafecf.org.
Make a Tax-Free Charitable Rollover Gift  If you are over 70 1/2 years old and have an IRA, you can directly donate up to $100,000 annually to qualified charitable non-profits like our library. These withdrawals are also known as Qualified Charitable Distributions. Such withdrawals directly from the IRA to the library would be tax-exempt.