Building Better Libraries Every Day
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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.

Lunch for Libraries 2023
Our sold-out spring fundraiser will feature best-selling author Emily St. John Mandel! She’ll discuss Sea of Tranquility, her latest novel.
The Wisconsin Vote
Watch our most recent Educational Series event, The Wisconsin Vote: Partisanship, Polling, and Public Opinion, featuring Professor Charles Franklin.
2021 Annual Report
Read our annual report to learn how the foundation invested donor dollars in library materials, technology, programs and other efforts.
Read Our Latest Newsletter
Meet the foundation’s new Executive Director and three new board members, learn about the three spring Library Takeover teams, and more.

– Diane Grypp, patron
– Hasan Kaya, patron


Madison Public Library Foundation
201 W. Mifflin Street
Madison, WI 53703
608.266.6318
Tax ID: 39-1777242