Community Library Association Forms New Support Group for Two Local Libraries
The Community Library Association (CLA) has established a new nonprofit group, Friends of CLA (FOCLA), to support fundraising, volunteerism, and advocacy for the Cooper-Siegel Community Library and Sharpsburg Community Library. Lauren Gleason and Kathleen Freyvogel, both CLA board members, are leading recruitment efforts. FOCLA aims to support library services, assist with strategic planning, upha
The Community Library Association (CLA) has formed a new group called Friends of CLA (FOCLA) to support fundraising, volunteerism, and advocacy for the Cooper-Siegel Community Library and Sharpsburg Community Library. These two libraries serve the six municipalities in the Fox Chapel Area School District. The CLA had not previously had a Friends group, which is unusual among regional libraries. Nonprofit Friends groups have existed since the 1920s and are common across arts, education, and recreation sectors.
Lauren Gleason and Kathleen Freyvogel, board members of the CLA, are spearheading recruitment for FOCLA. According to coopersiegelcommunitylibrary.org, FOCLA aims to support exemplary library service through fundraising, volunteerism, and advocacy; provide input on and help implement strategic plans; uphold library policies adopted by the CLA Board; and promote the mission to cultivate a community of lifelong learners. Recruitment is open to all library patrons, regardless of whether they live in the Fox Chapel Area School District, according to triblive.com.
Lauren Gleason believes forming the Friends of CLA group is an obvious and ambitious step due to community support.
This account was written only from facts that survived Augur's
corroboration pass — 7 corroborated across opposed news blocs,
0 contested (attributed to both sides), 2
single-source (attributed). Nothing was added; no significance was inferred.
Model Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct.
See the evidence & the verbatim quotes →