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28th Annual Links to Literacy

The 28th Annual
Golf Tournament

November 4, 2022 at Kapolei Golf Club

the Online Auction

November 1 – 7, 2022

Shop the Auction!

Tournament Highlights Include:

  • Million Dollar Hole-in-One – 28 Players have a chance to drive for $1,000,000.00
  • Four $10,000 Hole-in-One Prize Holes on the course.
  • Helicopter Golf Ball Drop – Win up to $1,000!
  • Excellent Team Prizes, Contests, Food & Beverages throughout the course, AND much more . . .

How to Participate

  • Links to Literacy 2022 – Sponsor Registration or print the hard copy
  • Prize Donation Form or print the hard copy
  • Online Auction Donation Form or print the hard copy
  • Links to Literacy 2022 – Player Registration Form or print the hard copy

Filed Under: Fundraisers, Fundraisers, Links to Literacy

Capital Campaign

We have purchased an 11,747 SF facility suitable for our operations. We need your help to reach our goal! Help us continue to support public library programs and continue to provide affordable books to our community!

Support our Capital Campaign

$1.88 million of $2.8 million raised
$
Select Payment Method
Personal Info

In order to make an offline donation we ask that you please follow these instructions:

  1. Make a check payable to “Friends of the Library of Hawaii”
  2. On the memo line of the check, please indicate that the donation is for “Capital Campaign”
  3. Please mail your check to:

Friends of the Library of Hawai‘i
 501 Sumner Street, Unit 614 
Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96817

All contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and are tax deductible.

Donation Total: $25.00

What do we do?


Get a behind the scenes look at what we do!


Space

  • More than 75 volunteers give their time year-round to process 750,000+ donations and store 150+ pallets of books & media for our sales in our warehouse.
  • Our sales raise 50% of our revenues for Hawai‘iʻs 51 public libraries.
  • The 8,000 SF warehouse that we currently rent is bursting at the seams!
  • Industrial warehouse space in Honolulu is quickly disappearing and the time is now to secure a location for a stable future.

Support our Capital Campaign

$1.88 million of $2.8 million raised
$
Select Payment Method
Personal Info

In order to make an offline donation we ask that you please follow these instructions:

  1. Make a check payable to “Friends of the Library of Hawaii”
  2. On the memo line of the check, please indicate that the donation is for “Capital Campaign”
  3. Please mail your check to:

Friends of the Library of Hawai‘i
 501 Sumner Street, Unit 614 
Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96817

All contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and are tax deductible.

Donation Total: $25.00

Resources

  • FLH History – Founded in 1879
  • Historical Photos
  • 50 Reasons Real Books are Vastly Superior to Ebooks
  • Millennials May Prefer Reading Paper Books Over E-Books
  • Parents and Toddlers Interact More When Reading Paper Books Versus E-books.
  • The Surprising Comeback of Vinyl Records
  • Paper Books vs eBooks: The State of the Art of Reading
  • Why Digital Reading is No Substitute for Print
  • Seven Reasons Why Ebook Sales are Falling – and Print Book Sales are Rising Again – Inc.
  • Ebook sales continue to fall as younger generations drive appetite for print

Filed Under: 4-How You Can Help, 6-Blog, Announcement, Donations, Features, Frontpage, Fundraisers Tagged With: capital campaign

27th Annual Links to Literacy

The 27th Annual
Golf Tournament

with Online Auction

November 19, 2021 at Kapolei Golf Club

Highlights Include:

  • Million Dollar Hole-in-One – 27 Players have a chance to drive for $1,000,000.00
  • Four $10,000 Hole-in-One Prize Holes on the course.
  • Helicopter Golf Ball Drop – Win up to $1,000!
  • Excellent Team Prizes, Contests, Food & Beverages throughout the course, AND much more . . .

How to Participate

  • Links to Literacy 2021 – Sponsor Registration or print the hard copy
  • Prize Donation Form
  • Online Auction Donation Form
  • Links to Literacy 2021 – Player Registration Form or print the hard copy
  • PGA Guidelines for tournaments


Filed Under: Fundraisers, Fundraisers, Links to Literacy

26th Annual Links to Literacy

The 26th Annual
Golf Tournament

September 20, 2019 at Kapolei Golf Club
with Banquet and Silent Auction to follow

Highlights Include:

  • Million Dollar Hole-in-One – 26 Players have a chance to drive for $1,000,000.00
  • Four $10,000 Hole-in-One Prize Holes on the course.
  • Helicopter Golf Ball Drop – Win up to $1,000!
  • Excellent Team Prizes, a Delicious Banquet, Food & Beverages throughout the course, AND much more . . .

How to Participate

  • Links to Literacy 2019 – Sponsor Registration or print the hard copy
  • Silent Auction/Prize Donation Form
  • Links to Literacy 2019 – Player Registration Form or print the hard copy

Find more information at the tournament website!


Blue Hawaiian Helicopter Golf Ball Drop

Whether you golf or not, here’s your opportunity to support Hawai‘i’s 51 public libraries through the Links to Literacy Golf Tournament and a chance to support your favorite branch in particular.

On the day of the tournament, we will drop up to 1,800 golf balls from a Blue Hawaiian Helicopter over a designated hole at the Kapolei Golf Club! See a video from 2014 (hope for light winds). For a donation of $10, you will be assigned a numbered ball and have a chance to win fabulous prizes! Each of the first five balls into the designated hole will win a prize.

We gave away the $1,000 (plus the $500 to their library of choice) for the past two years!

In addition, you will be able to designate your Hawai‘i library branch of choice to receive $500 should your ball be the first into (at the bottom of) the hole. This is a $500 donation to the designated library in addition to the $1,000 award for the first ball into the hole.

Buy a ball online through the link provided below or call our office (M-F) and contribute by credit card over the phone, (808) 536.4174

How to Participate:

$10 Donation  –    One Ball

You may enter as many times as you’d like!

  • 1st Ball – $1,000
  • 2nd Ball – 50″ LED TV
  • 3rd Ball – $250 Gift Certificate
  • 4th & 5th Balls – $100 Gift Certificates
  • 1st Place Winner’s Library Branch of Choice – $500

Follow the link to Contribute for a Ball – Blue Hawaiian Helicopter Golf Ball Drop 2019 or print the hard copy

You do not need to be present to win. There is no purchase necessary. There is an 1,800 ball limit due to the capacity of the helicopter. Those who do not wish to contribute for a ball may show up at the golf course at 8 a.m. on the day of the tournament to claim a ball and a chance to win. Subject to availability.


Filed Under: Links to Literacy

25th Annual Links to Literacy

The 25th Annual

Links to Literacy 

Golf Tournament 

October 12, 2018 at Kapolei Golf Club

with Banquet and Silent Auction to follow

Visit the Silent auction and Tournament Website

Highlights Include:

  • Million Dollar Hole-in-One – 25 Players have a chance to drive for $1,000,000.00
  • Four $10,000 Hole-in-One Prize Holes on the course.
  • Blue Hawaiian Helicopter Golf Ball Drop 2018 – Win up to $1,000!
  • Excellent Team Prizes, a Delicious Banquet, Food & Beverages throughout the course, AND much more . . .

 

How to Participate

  • Links to Literacy 2018 – Sponsor Registration or print the hard copy
  • Silent Auction/Prize Donation Form
  • Links to Literacy 2018 – Player Registration Form or print the hard copy

Blue Hawaiian Helicopter Golf Ball Drop

Whether you golf or not, here’s your opportunity to support Hawai‘i’s 51 public libraries through the Links to Literacy Golf Tournament and a chance to support your favorite branch in particular.

On the day of the tournament, we will drop up to 1,800 golf balls from a Blue Hawaiian Helicopter over a designated hole at the Kapolei Golf Club! See a video from 2014 (hope for light winds). For a donation of $10, you will be assigned a numbered ball and have a chance to win fabulous prizes! Each of the first five balls into the designated hole will win a prize. 

We gave away the $1,000 (plus the $500 to their library of choice) for the past two years!

In addition, you will be able to designate your Hawai‘i library branch of choice to receive $500 should your ball be the first into (at the bottom of) the hole. This is a $500 donation to the designated library in addition to the $1,000 award for the first ball into the hole.

 

Buy a ball online through the link provided below or call our office (M-F) and contribute by credit card over the phone, (808) 536.4174

 

How to Participate:

$10 Donation  –    One Ball

You may enter as many times as you’d like!

1st Ball – $1,000

2nd Ball – 50″ LED TV

3rd Ball – $250 Gift Certificate

4th & 5th Balls – $100 Gift Certificates

1st Place Winner’s Library Branch of Choice – $500

      Follow the link to Contribute for a Ball – Blue Hawaiian Helicopter Golf Ball Drop 2018

You do not need to be present to win. There is no purchase necessary. There is an 1,800 ball limit due to the capacity of the helicopter. Those who do not wish to contribute for a ball may show up at the golf course at 8 a.m. on October 12 to claim a ball and a chance to win. Subject to availability.

 

Filed Under: Links to Literacy

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The Friends of the Library of Hawai‘i is a nonprofit organization whose primary objective is to maintain free public libraries in the State of Hawai‘i, to promote extension of library services throughout the State of Hawai‘i and to increase the facilities of the public library system of Hawai‘i by securing materials beyond the command of the ordinary library budget. Other objectives are to focus attention on libraries and to encourage and accept, by bequest or gift, donations of books, manuscripts, money, and other appropriate material that can enrich the cultural opportunities available to the people of Hawai‘i.

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Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96817

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