Mission Statement

The Friends of the Miami Dade Public Library is dedicated to furthering library excellence through the advancement of library initiatives utilizing a three-dimensional approach:

	Advocacy: build an active and informed base of library champions that will provide grassroots support at the county, state, and national levels to advocate on behalf of the interests of the Miami Dade Public Library System and the people it serves.
	Volunteer assistance: provide access to a pool of volunteer support for both branch programming activities and system-wide Friends activities.
	Fundraising: provide supplementary funds that help sponsor Library programming and staff development.

Goals

	Advocacy: create a structured communication program around active grassroots community support, and distribute calls to action and information in a timely manner to all Friends members as well as specific Library advocates as appropriate.
	Volunteer assistance: support Library staff in creating structured environment that ensures that all volunteers belong to a specific group and are treated as valuable assets of the greater organization.
	Fundraising: hold the annual fall book sale and one to two additional fundraising events to support Library initiatives not covered by their budget.