Ricoh USA Donates to Friends of Parsippany Library

Ricoh USA celebrated Read Across America with a donation to the Friends of the Parsippany Library. A company-wide collection yielded ten cartons of books which were delivered to the library by organizer Connie Riebenfeld.

Riebenfeld, an Executive Administrative Assistant of the Northeast Region, helps to run an annual event to support a local community organization. She was inspired to celebrate Read Across America Week by spearheading an effort to collect books from employees. She set up an appealing drop box and the response was overwhelming.

Connie described the company’s motivation in setting up the collection.

“Book donations promote knowledge and literacy while also reducing waste. Ricoh is pleased to support the good work and fundraising efforts of Friends of the Parsippany Library.”

Peg Miesnik, Co-President of the Friends, shared the group’s gratitude for Ricoh’s donation.

“We are so happy to have a generous community partner like the employees of Ricoh, USA in Parsippany. They understand how important our library is to our town.

“Book donations are a boon to the library’s fundraising efforts as they help restock both the Little Nook (the Friends bookstore in the Main library) and several Bag Sales that the Friends hold each year,” she said.

The next Bag Sale will be held on March 28 through April 14 and will feature the Ricoh donations.