How Your Gift Helps
Support the Fund
Philanthropic support is critical to promoting leadership and innovation, enabling the Library to test new ideas, leverage those ideas to scale, and respond to evolving community needs. While city funding provides the Boston Public Library with a strong base of support, gifts at all levels make innovation and expansion of new services and programs possible.
The Boston Public Library is preparing for what lies ahead — ensuring all of Boston’s citizens have the access and opportunity to thrive in a post-pandemic world. From expanding youth services and workforce development programs to ensuring digital and information equity, the Library is pivoting to the changing needs of Boston, and revitalizing the future for its residents. Your gift to the Boston Public Library Fund will help preserve and share treasures, unlock opportunities and activate democracy.
Sharing Treasures – Our Gift to Future Generations
The Boston Public Library encompasses an abundance of spaces and collections, al of which belong to the people of Boston. Your gift supports the preservation and activation of the vibrant resources that define and distinguish the Library.
Unlocking Opportunity - Honoring the Spirit of “Free to All”
The Boston Public Library is committed to serving every person who enters our location. The free and open access to knowledge we offer gives patrons unlimited opportunities to become educated, gain employment, indulge in their love of reading, advance themselves and their communities, and find joy in learning for learning’s sake.
Activating Democracy – Elevating Civic Engagement
Support of the Boston Public Library Fund not only affirms the Boston Public Library’s role as a sanctuary from the chaos of modern life and a trusted beacon of information and learning, it demonstrates a commitment to uphold the openness, honesty, and transparency that make democracy possible.
