{"id":2717,"date":"2022-07-05T23:57:26","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T23:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegreatgiveback.org\/?page_id=2717"},"modified":"2025-10-27T13:42:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T13:42:35","slug":"mohawk-valley-library-system-archived-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thegreatgiveback.org\/index.php\/mohawk-valley-library-system-archived-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohawk Valley Library System Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Public libraries of Fulton, Montgomery, Schenectady, and Schoharie Counties<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Below are libraries from the Mohawk Valley Library System<\/a> that participated in past instances of The Great Give Back! Please contact libraries directly for questions regarding offered programming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fort Plain Free Library<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Community Food and Supply Drive<\/strong>
October 1st – November 27th
Food and Supply Drive for the local Fulmont Community Action pantry
In the lead up to Thanksgiving, the Fort Plain Free Library will be accepting donations of non-perishable boxed or canned foods, hygiene products, and household cleaning products for the local Fulmont Community Action pantry. The items that are most in need at the pantry include, but are not limited to, canned soups, sauces and vegetables, pastas such as spaghetti, elbow macaroni and rice, soaps, shampoos and conditioners, dish soaps and detergents. For further information on what items we will be taking and hours of drop off, you can call us at 518-993-4646, email us at fpfl@mvls.info, or visit our website fortplainfreelibrary.org.
No registration required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frothingham Free Library<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnstown Public Library<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Caring For Our Community<\/strong>
September 1st – December 31st
We at the Johnstown Public Library have a year round program Caring For Our Community. Approximately every two months we have a collection for a local community charity. For example August and September we are collection items for our local ASPCA, September and October we are collecting cell phones and other electronics to recycle, November and December we are collecting for the food pantry and Toys for Tots. We promote the food pantry in November but we do have a donation box to collect for them year round along with glasses and hearing aids for the Lions Club. I contact each charity that we collect for to ask them for a “Wishlist” of items that they can use which i post next to our collection box. We are grateful to have very generous patrons that donate to all of the charities that we collect for and the charities are very appreciative for the all the donations they receive.
No registration required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karen B Johnson Library<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Great Give Back<\/strong>
November 1st – December 1st
For The Great Give Back this year we will be collecting warm coats, hats, mittens and socks for The City Mission of Schenectady. We will accept gently used or new. Let’s help our community stay warm this winter season.
No registration required
Donation boxes will be at the libraries and the Whitney bookstore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Margaret Reaney Memorial Library<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Food Drive to Benefit Helping Hands Food Pantry<\/strong>
October 1st – 25th
Margaret Reaney Memorial Library in St Johnsville will be accepting non perishable food items for the Helping Hands Food Pantry. All food items are greatly appreciated, however there is a need for cereal and peanut butter.
No Registration needed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fort Hunter Free Library<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Free Little Food Pantry and Story Hour for Volunteering<\/strong>
October 20th-21st from 9:00am-1:00pm
All ages
Please contribute a can of food, paper item or toiletries that we will share with our local community. Our pantry is located right outside our library.
Our children’s story hour, 10-30 AM will feature the NYS Volunteer 2023 reading Sonia Sotomayor’s book “Just Help” to support and encourage volunteering in your community
No registration required<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gloversville Public Library<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Domestic Violence Awareness Month Luggage Drive<\/strong>
October 1st-31st
All ages
The luggage drive will collect news and gently used luggage for our partners at the Domestic Violence Program of Fulton County. The items will be distributed to people escaping domestic abuse, who may have no dignified method to store and transport the important items they manage to take with them when they seek safety.
No registration required<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnstown Public Library<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seeds of Happiness<\/strong>
October 1st-31st from 9:00am-6:00pm
All ages
In October, we will be collecting new or gently used luggage, new socks, new underwear, new women’s undergarments (bras\/sports bras), and new pajama sets. These can be any\/all sizes from child to adult including plus sizes. All of these items will be given to our local domestic violence shelter.
No registration required<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schenectady County Public Library – Central<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hygiene items collection for 518 Free Store<\/strong>
October 17th – November 30th
Adults and Children
Drop off items during library hours:
MON thru THURS @ 9AM-8PM
FRI @ 9AM-5PM
SAT @10AM-5PM
SUN @ 12PM-4PM
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Johnstown Public Library<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Food Pantry Donations<\/strong>
Helping to support our local food pantry with donations from the patrons of the Johnstown Public Library. We are accepting non-perishable food items to donate at any time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Public libraries of Fulton, Montgomery, Schenectady, and Schoharie Counties Below are libraries from the Mohawk Valley Library System that participated in past instances of The Great Give Back! Please contact libraries directly for questions regarding offered programming. Jump to a Year:202420232021 2024 Fort Plain Free Library Community Food and Supply DriveOctober 1st – November 27thFood and Supply Drive… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2717","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreatgiveback.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreatgiveback.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreatgiveback.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreatgiveback.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreatgiveback.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2717"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thegreatgiveback.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5613,"href":"https:\/\/thegreatgiveback.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2717\/revisions\/5613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreatgiveback.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}