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- EIN 52-1173474
- (215) 567-5948
- 1901 Vine St Room 400 Philadelphia PA 19103 USA
- www.freelibrary.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Education
Mission: To develop resources and funding to expand, enhance, and support the services, collections, building improvements and technology expansion, and other activities of the free library of philadelphia. Programs include early childhood, family, and adult literacy; after-school homework help; teen leadership and youth empowerment summit; workplace and career placement; regional foundation center; lecture series; summer programs in reading and science; and cultural performances.
Programs: Public programs: to provide literacy, cultural and educational programming on behalf of the free library of philadelphia. Examples of such programs include: the literacy enrichment after-school program (leap), the philadelphia book festival, one book one philadelphia, science in the summer, teen programming, college prep, the author lecture series, and summer reading program.
central library capital renovation project: to expand and renovate the central branch of the library.
collections and preservation: to enhance the library's prominent research collections, such as the fleisher collection, dickens collection, poe collection, medieval manuscripts, etc.