The Garden City Public Library is a collection site for used eyeglasses for the Recycle for Sight Program, which is run by a local Lions Club. The Lions Club has expressed its appreciation to the Library for continuing to serve as an ongoing collection site for the Recycle for Sight Program. A box is provided for the used eyeglass collection near the interior doors of the Library.

The Library partners with several community agencies to assist with services that benefit the public in Garden City as well as throughout Long Island. The Library accepts donated cell phones on behalf of the Garden City Police Department. The phones are reworked to assist victims of domestic violence, persons with disabilities, and senior citizens as 911 calling devices or given to the "Cell Phones for Soldiers Program." Cell phones may be left at the circulation desk in the Library.

In addition, the Library collects American flags to be discarded for American Legion. The flags are taken to Pinelawn National Cemetery where they are burned and the ashes are buried in sacred ground. A box is provided for this collection near the interior doors of the Library.

This summer the Library will also serve as a collection site for the LI Cares/ Harry Chapin Food Bank. A blue donation barrel is located across from the Circulation Desk until the end of August. Donations of canned and dry, boxed foods will be used to help stock Long Island food pantries, senior and children's day-care centers, soup kitchens, and shelters.