The 2024 Serving With A Purpose Conference.

Our theme for 2024 is: Fundraising and Advocacy:

Our Call to Action

Your registration will include a gourmet continental breakfast, catered sit-down lunch and conference materials.

Please consider supporting this conference by becoming a "Table Sponsor". By doing so, you are displaying that you value libraries and the people who advocate for them. Each year we try to keep registration prices as low as possible and your sponsorship assists us with this priority. The price of the Table Sponsorship is $800 and includes 8 registrations, special acknowledgement in conference PR, agenda and program, 8 copies of our author’s newest novel, an exclusive afternoon treat and premium table placement in main conference area. Please look for the special ticket during purchasing.

Keynote Speakers: Charity D. Tyler –

Originally from Oklahoma City, Charity made Cedar Rapids, Iowa her home after graduating from Coe College.Charity has more than 20 years of experience in nonprofit and community leadership and has helped raise millions of dollars for organizations in her community. She has been Executive Director for the Cedar Rapids Public Library Foundation since 2015. In this role, Charity led the transition from capital campaign to annual giving, advocacy and planned giving. Prior to joining the Library Foundation, Charity was the Director of National Development for the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library.

Charity is the Immediate Past President and Financial Officer for United for Libraries, the division of the American Library Association (ALA) that supports Trustees, Foundations and Friends of Libraries.

Paul Signorelli, a San Francisco-based writer/trainer-facilitator/presenter/consultant, serves as Library Advocacy Training Project Manager for the California Library Association. As author of "Change the World Using Social Media" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021), he captured the stories of advocates working in libraries and a variety of other settings, and he continues to work with individuals and organizations to help them hone their collaboration skills to create productive coalitions to produce positive results. He recently led a one-hour “Advocacy Basics” session at the American Library Association’s LibLearnX conference in Baltimore and is scheduled, over the next few months, to facilitate a variety of other similar workshops on advocacy, community, and collaboration for onsite and online conferences.

Our Author: San Diego native Georgeanne “George” Irvine has devoted her career to raising awareness about animals and wildlife conservation. She is the director of publishing for San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, where she has worked for 46 years, as well as the author of nearly 30 children’s books about animals, including the award-winning Hope and Inspiration collection.

Major passions for George include traveling, photography, storytelling, Broadway musicals and, of course, wildlife. She lives for adventure travel and loves seeing animals in their native habitats. Her worldwide expeditions have taken her to many of the wildest places on earth—from the jungles of Borneo and South America to the mountains of China and the forests of India to the Outback of Australia and the savannas of Africa.

Note: For those that need an invoice for their city, please request invoices as early as possible to allow time for your organization/city to process and send. Ticket price cut-off dates are firm.

Contact: robinhoklotubbe@aol.com

We accept credit cards and checks.

Checks If mailing a check, after clicking on "tickets", look for the "promo code" box on the top left and enter mailingcheck (one word). Be sure to click on "apply" after that. Then follow the prompts.

Make check payable to: Serving with a Purpose

Mail check to:

Corona Public Library 650 S. Main St Corona CA 92882 Att: Serving

Be sure to mail your check amount according to the fee schedule. If check arrives late and the fee has gone up, you will be charged the higher fee.

February - March 16: $75 March 17 - April 17: $85

We have a host hotel with a special rate of $139.00 per night.

Holiday Inn Ontario Airport -2155 E Convention Center Way (across the street from Convention Center) $139.00 for two executive Queen beds. Rooms need to be booked by May 7, 2024.

1. Go to https://www.ihg.com/holidayinn/hotels/us/en/ontario/ontha/hoteldetail

2. Select a check-in and check-out date between 5.21 to 5.23

3. Go to the drop down menu under Rate Preference

4. Select Group Rate

5. On the Group Code, put SWP You are also able to call in and request to make a reservation under Serving with a Purpose You will then tell them the three letter group code which is SWP

1 888 HOLIDAY (1 888 465 4329) or front desk 1-909-2128000

We look forward to having you attend. It's going to be a great conference!

This conference is made possible by the support of

A BIG thank you to all our 2024 sponsors!