The following library programs & services were supported by your membership gifts and donations. Please note that, out of more than 500 funding requests awarded, there are only unique programs & services listed here. (For example, the Summer Reading Program sees many of the same programs across different branches.)
For an ongoing list of programs & services supported this year, search the hashtag #BackedByFriends on Facebook!
Summer Reading
Amazing Library Card
Acacia
Accidental Crafter
Book Club
Cake Pops 101
Chalk Paint Workshop
DIY Essential Oil Pillows
Dr. Seuss Celebration
Fairy Gardens Craft
Fall Festival
Furniture Refinishing Class
Kids Café
Literacy Night
MiniMasters
Painting for Fun!
Polar Express Storytime
Preschool Prep
Pumpkin Carving Show
Seed Library
Sensory Storytime
STEM Programs
Storytime
Summer Reading
Teen Design Studio
Teen Makers Program
Teen/Tween Graphic Design
Water Harvesting 101
Winter Wonderland
Agave
After-School STEM
Arizona Kicks on Route 66
Basics of Saving Seeds in Your Garden
BooFest
Builders Club
Container Gardening for Adults
Discovery Time
Eat Healthy Plate Project
Fall Festival
First Five Years Supplies
Holiday Card Making
Hopi Quilting Traditions
Hummingbird Container Gardening
Kids Gardening
LEGO STEM Play
Libraries Rock! Program
MicroGreens Program
Nailed It: Painting with Bob Ross
Nailed It: Paper Flowers
Native Desert Bees Workshop
Preschool STEM
Scratch Art
Seed Library
Seed Science
Special Needs Storytime
Storytime
Teen Crafting Supplies
Teen Paracord Bracelets
Wild, Weird, Wicked AZ
Wizards of STEAM
Wobble Bots for Teens
Yoga Classes
Burton Barr Central Library
Software for College Depot
First Fridays
Super Bowl Program
Storyfest
Black History Month programming
Maker Corp
Downton Abbey program
Civil War program
Roboception
Summer Reading Kick-Off Party
Summer Solstice event
hive @ central art event
Mars Academy
World Refugee Day programming
Frida Kahlo Birthday Celebration
Dia de los Muertos programming
Family STEM Night
Printing Press program
Comic Club
Teen Survey
Smash Brothers program
Polar Express program
Jana Bommersbach author event
MACH1 supplies
Button Machine
Rug for First Five Years center
hive @ central program supplies
Teen Central supplies
Century
Books for Treats
Computer Coding
Family Night ASL Animal Bingo
Foreign Coin Collection & Geography Game
Papel Picado – Hispanic Heritage Month
STEAM/STEM Programming
Teen MakersChoice
Cesar Chavez
Accidental Crafter
African American Pioneers of Arizona
BabyTime Visual Tracking
Container Gardening
Dancing Rainbows & Swirling Symphonies
Dinovember Kids Program
Germ-Busters Program
Fiesta Foods with Chef Larry
Fun Holiday Foods with Chef Larry
GameTime for Teens
How to Make Super Bowl Snacks with Chef Larry
“It’s a Jungle out There!” Animal Adaptations
Kids Cook Classes
Literacy Luau
Reading Month Craft
Zoo: Colorful Creatures
Pokémon Play!
Reading in a Winter Wonderland
Sand Art Terrariums
Storytime
Summer Reading
Teas Please: Hot or Cold
Teen Crafternoon
Teen Gaming
Tween History of Ice Cream & Demo
Tween Origami
Wooden Pumpkin Teen Craft
Cholla
Accidental Crafter
Adult Art Recess
Americana Salute to AZ Statehood
“An Arizona Tall Tale” Story
Art Lab: Clay Pressing
Artisan Mask & Book Making
Black History Month Musical Trio
Cinco de Mayo Mariachi Performance
Container Gardening
Dr. Seuss Birthday Celebration
End of Summer Reading Fest
Fused Glass Pendants
Hip Hop Performance
Kids STEM
Musical Assembly – Hispanic Heritage
Paper Quilting
Polar Express
Pumpkin Carving Like a Pro
Seed Library
Stamp Making
Summer Bookmania
Tech Fun
Teen Crafting
Teen Universe
Violin Concert for Families
Watercolor Painting
Worm Composting
Desert Broom
Armed with Our Language Special Presentation
BabyTime with Sign
Crafternoon
DiscoveryTime
Gentle Yoga Series
Hellraising, Heroic, & Hidden Women of the Old West
Make It with Glass: Pendants
Music & Movement Program
Operation Gratitude Paracord Bracelets
Pumpkin Carving Like a Pro
Seed Library
STEAM
Steamsters
Storytime
ToddlerTime with Sign
Watercolor Weekly
Yoga Alphabet
Desert Sage
African American Art Special Program
Black History Month Program
Computer Coding
Dr. Seuss Day
Fall Festival
Family Fun STEM
Harry Potter Program
Kids Café
Papel Picado Workshop
Pendergast Summer Camp
Princess Friday
Seed Library
Summer Reading
Harmon
Community Garden
Easter/Spring Program
Harvest Festival
Seed Library
Teen Ice Cream Social
Ironwood
Artistic Planner/Journal Making
Aesop’s Fables & Nutcracker in Space Music
BabyTime
Book Club
Color to Calm
Digital City
Dr. Seuss Birthday
Edible Houses
Family H2O STEM Lab
Harvest Festival
Magic Tree House
Papel Picado Hispanic Heritage
Parchment & Prose
Seed Library
Spring Literacy Festival
Storytime
Summer Karaoke
Super Hero Day
Teen Makerspace
Teen Study Event
Teen Time
TinkerTime
Watercolor Classes
Juniper
AZ Outlaws & the Law
Cowpokes, Crooks, & Cactus
Camp Juniper
Carboard Marble Run
Circuits & Conductivity
Container Gardening
Fiber Fun Workshops
Freeze: The Science of Ice Cream
Hands-On Wildlife Presentation
Hellraising, Heroic, & Hidden Women of the Old West
Japanese Taiko Drums
Live Animals Wildlife Presentation
Music with Recycled Objects
Polar Express
Pumpkin Painting
Rock Painting
Science Sunday
Seed Library
Slime Activity
Soldering Project
Sugar Skull Caps
Technology Magic Show
Worm Bootcamp
Wow! That’s Science
Mesquite
Ancient Southwest Native History
Arizona Goes to the Moon
BigBytes Coding
Book Club
Coder Dojo
Cool Season Gardening in the Desert
Edible & Medicinal Weeds
Fairytale Craft
Growing Tomatoes in the Desert
LittleBytes
Mary Poppins Visit
Native Desert Bees Workshop
Navajo Code Talkers
Seed Library
Seed to Flower Program
Spectors of the Past
Ocotillo
Apprenticeship Workshop
Black History Month Speaker
Community Partner Breakfast
Gingerbread Workshop
Ice Cream Social
LEGO STEAM
May the 4th Be with You Family Literacy Night
Pumpkin Carving Like a Pro
Science of Fear of Halloween
STEAM Camp Atomic Models
Water Day Activities
Why Not Wednesday
Palo Verde
Book Club
Cajita Workshop for Teens
Cupcake Decorating
Hip Hop Dance Group
LEGO Candy Making
Mask Making Workshop
Monster Bash
Native American Heritage Music
Paper Electronics
Pumpkin Carving
Seed Library
Smoothie Workshop
STEAM Halloween Program
Summer Reading
Super Saturday
Zoo to You
Saguaro
Accidental Crafter
Book Club
Canvas Art
Container Gardening
It’s Beginning to Look a lot Like Crafting
Gingerbread House Workshop
Glass Jar Craft
Halloween Storytime
Harvest Party
Kids Café
Native Desert Bees Workshop
Seed Library
STEM Game Day
Stepping into STEM
Summer Reading
Teen Frankenstein Program
ToddlerTime
Watercolor Art for Kids
Worm Composting
South Mountain
3D Modeling
Banned Poetry Reading
Button Making
Charcoal Drawing
Color to Calm
Harvest Festival
Makerspace HAMA Time
My Pet Dinosaur Puppet Show
Paws for a Study Break
Polar Express
Seed Library
Summer Reading
Teen Anime Fest
TeenTime
Yucca
Chinese Marbeling on Rice Paper
Diabetes: Intro, Nutrition & Complications
Libraries Rock!
Painting on Wine Bottles
Pumpkin Carving Show
Rock Gardens
Slime It Up! Chemistry & Physics
Summer Reading