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What We Do

Madison Public Library Foundation mobilizes the Madison community to continuously improve, promote, and support Madison Public Library. Your gifts allow us to take the library beyond city funding to a new level of excellence designed to reach the whole community. A Madison, Wisconsin nonprofit organization, the foundation fuels literacy, opportunity, and lifelong learning through equal access to free resources. Our work relies on charitable donations, corporate sponsorships, grants, fundraising event support, and other generous investments that help us Build Better Libraries Every Day.

Library patrons doing yoga at Central Library event
Abraham Verghese

Lunch for Libraries April 29

Our 14th annual Lunch for Libraries will feature Abraham Verghese, M.D., best-selling author of The Covenant of Water.

Mom and two children sitting on floor during Lakeview Library programming

Library Giving Day

Library Giving Day is April 1. Celebrate the Past and Inspire the Future by participating in a special giving opportunity!

Madison Public Library logo items – T-shirt, mug, hoodie, tote bag

Visit Our Online Store

Want everyone to know how much you love Madison Public Library? Check out apparel from our new library merchandise store!

Two Madison Public LIbrary women librarians at checkout desk in 1964

Support Library’s 150th Year

The upcoming 150th celebrations will honor the library’s rich history while providing a vision of its future in serving the community.

Toddler on hands and knees at storytime

Winter Newsletter

Read about plans for the library’s 150th year celebration, our new board members, the Book Festival spring schedule, and more!

2022 annual report illustration with characters

2023 Annual Report

Read our annual report to learn how the foundation invested donor dollars in library materials, technology, programs and other efforts.

“The library works at all sorts of levels to make the community more knowledgeable and just a better place to be.”

– Diane Grypp, patron

“Madison Public Library cares about the atmosphere, and allowing the library to be a free community space, where no one is discriminated against. … It’s a safe place.”

– Hasan Kaya, patron