The mission of the the Friends of the Stoneham Library as a non-profit educational charity, is to foster a community of volunteers and donors that want to support the cultural life of the community through good library services.
The primary goals and activities of the charity are:
To build an engaged community based volunteer organization that is enthusiastic about supporting the Stoneham Library
To organize and run events that the community enjoys and helps raise awareness of the library and its programs
To encourage gifts, endowments, memorials, money or other materials beyond the resources of the library budget
To donate all funds raised, to the Stoneham Library in support of its Children, Teen and Adult services and programs
Advocate for the public library at the town level to ensure ongoing support and funding
To support the very talented team of library staff with volunteers for special projects at the library
