About Us

About Madison Public
Library Foundation

Since 1993, Madison Public Library Foundation has been committed to developing sustainable and vibrant partnerships between the community and the city’s library system. Our role is to bridge the financial gap between publicly funded library services and all the experiences that library staff want to deliver to the community. We raise millions of dollars each year for collections, technology, programs, professional development, equity and innovation projects, capital campaigns, endowments and the Wisconsin Book Festival. With the help of our generous donors, we build better libraries every day.

View our 2021-23 strategic plan here.

Diversity Statement

Madison Public Library Foundation is committed to developing sustainable and vibrant partnerships between the community and the city’s library system. Our success is defined by our commitment to pulling together diverse voices and resources, and returning them to the local community through world-class library programs and services. Libraries have a special place in our lives and thrive only when they rest on a foundation of inclusion, respect, openness of and freedom from racial, economic, social or any other type of bias. The foundation is