The Venice Area Chamber of Commerce recently bestowed the 2009 Non Profit Business of the Year award on the Friends of the Venice Library. The announcement of this year's honorees was made at the Chamber's annual luncheon held at the Plantation Golf and Country Club.
Lisa Backer, President of the Venice Friends, was surprised and delighted by the award: "The Friends were one of ten nominees that included the American Cancer Society, Habitat for Humanity, the United Way of South Sarasota County and the Venice Theater, Inc. It was truly an honor just to be nominated among such other well-deserving organizations.
"This award means so much to the Friends of Venice Library—it validates all of our efforts in supporting Venice Library. Each and every Friend, Board member, volunteer and staff member shares a piece of this award in making a difference in our community. Our volunteers who work in every department of the library giving over 17,000 hours last year made a difference, the Friends supplementing the library budget by $30,000 makes a difference, having energetic, creative, and professional staff to partner with makes a difference. These are just a few of the reasons we are proud to be awarded Non-Profit Business of the Year."
And while this award was given to the Friends of the Venice Public Library, Inc. it should be valued by all of our fellow Friends groups in the Sarasota County Library System. We all recognize the benefits of being part of a system, each of us doing our own little part to create a better library system for all of Sarasota County."For more information on the Venice Friends visit venicefriends.org. To find all the Sarasota County library's Friends groups, visit sclibs.net/Friends/Friends.aspx.
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