Donations & Grants
Your generous donations and grants enable F.O.L.K. to support our libraries, literacy, our scholarship recipients and our community. Through your increased donation levels we can continue our support of the libraries and meet the needs of our Kona communities. Mahalo.
Friends of the Libraries, Kona Acknowledges the Generosity of these 2022 Major Donors
Thank you for your generous contributions in support of our Kona Public Libraries
Grants
Anonymous Grant to the F.O.L.K. Scholarship Fund
James and Linda Odom Kid's Reading Program
Arne & Ruth Werchick MLIS Scholarship Fund
Irene Horvath
Keith & Joyce Kimball F.O.L.K. Scholarship Program
Donations
Don & Roberta Gallagher
In Memoriam Donations
Members have asked to make a donation to F.O.L.K. on behalf of a deceased loved one. Donations will be acknowledged with a new book with a book plate honoring the memory of your loved one and it will be added to one of our library collections.
In Memoriam Donations will be accepted at levels of $50.00 or more.
In Memoriam
We remember those who have passed away and the generosity of those who made donations in their names.
Lily Able
Brianna Alvarez
Kate Goodson
Fred Hornbruch III
Joyce Kimball
Denise Ulrich
Book Donations
Friends of the Libraries, Kona welcomes gifts of books to sell in our lobby and at monthly book sales. All proceeds from these sales are used to benefit the libraries of West Hawaii in Kealakekua and Kailua-Kona. Receipts are available upon request.
Drop-off days at the Kailua-Kona Library loading dock are on Wednesdays and Saturdays between 9:00 and 11:00 a.m. Kealakekua Library donations are accepted at the circulation desk during open hours.