Annual Fund
SUPPORTING COLLECTIONS, TECHNOLOGY, PROGRAMS and morE
Give to Our Annual Fund
Madison Public Library Foundation’s annual fund provides critical support to core library needs. Some of these include:
- collections
- technology
- programs
- professional development opportunities for staff
- equity & innovation initiatives
- library leadership requests
- mini-grants for smaller projects that present themselves throughout the year
View our current appeal here.
The foundation’s Grants Committee meets throughout the year to review requests from library leadership, and issues nearly $100,000 each year for these purposes. View our grants flyer to see what our annual fund grants supported in 2023.
Past Annual Fund Grants
Total granted: $190,000
Technology – AV Upgrades at Goodman South Madison & Sequoya libraries
Collections
Library Strategic Planning Project
Professional Development
AASPIRE Internships
Mini-Grants: Library Takeover, ART Party, BIPOC & Pride Affinity Groups, Central Podiums, Sewing Machines at Sequoya Library, Barbara Dimick Memorial Bench
Total granted: $338,730
Digital and physical collection items, including eBooks, newspaper subscriptions, picture books and popular books
Professional development and staff training
Technology, including Zoom and phone software for staff to communicate during the pandemic
Equity & Innovation
Mini-Grants for arts and oral history projects
Director’s Discretionary Fund
Total granted: $388,681
Technology – Hardware & Software Improvements
Professional Development
Staff Day
Kanopy Video Streaming Service
Sequoya Library BCycle Station
AASPIRE Internships
Six Mini-Grants: Birding Backpacks, Library Takeover, Dane County Jail Library Self-Care Classroom Books, Prison Support Group Books, Progress Center for Black Women Business Mini-Library, Staff Morale Boosters, Pride Affinity Group
Total granted: $137,550
Collections, primarily eBooks
Professional Development and Staff Day
Technology, including licenses for software that patrons use
Equity & Innovation
Mini-Grants, including Library Takeover and book club kits
Director’s Discretionary Fund
2021
Total granted: $285,771
Pandemic-Related Technology
Collections
Professional Development
Staff Day
WE READ & Play
Amplifying Community Voices
Mini-Grants
2018
Total granted: $187,000
High Use & New Media Collection Improvements
Professional Development
Staff Day
Systemwide Technology Improvements
The Wonder of Learning exhibit
Director’s Discretionary Fund
Black Men Run, Brown Boys Read
Pathway to Cooperative Entrepreneurship
High Loss Materials Replacement
Increasing Accessibility at the Library
Meet Your Madison Public Library
Who Matters? Volume Two intergenerational photo exhibit
Madison Public Library Foundation
201 W. Mifflin Street
Madison, WI 53703
608.266.6318
Tax ID: 39-1777242
