Support the South Burlington Public Library!
Welcome to the South Burlington Library Foundation, where your support helps our community flourish through literacy, lifelong learning, and connection.
Your generosity directly enhances our library's ability to provide enriching programs, valuable resources, and welcoming spaces for neighbors of all ages. Every contribution makes a difference.
Explore our site to learn how your involvement - as a donor or volunteer (or both!) - helps sustain and grow the vibrant heart of our community - the South Burlington Public Library. Together, we can nurture curiosity, inspire discovery, and build a brighter future for everyone.
Your generosity directly enhances our library's ability to provide enriching programs, valuable resources, and welcoming spaces for neighbors of all ages. Every contribution makes a difference.
Explore our site to learn how your involvement - as a donor or volunteer (or both!) - helps sustain and grow the vibrant heart of our community - the South Burlington Public Library. Together, we can nurture curiosity, inspire discovery, and build a brighter future for everyone.
"Public libraries are crucial centers of community activity, places where people from diverse backgrounds and with varied interests connect; public libraries are America at its best."
- Jason Chin, children's book author and illustrator, Caldecott Winner and South Burlington resident
About the Foundation
The South Burlington Library Foundation was established in 2018 to generate private support to enhance the quality of the South Burlington Public Library.
The Foundation began with the mission of raising funds for the new library. Building on the generous bequest from Paul O. Blanchette we ran the successful community ASPIRE Campaign which, in total, raised nearly $1 million.
Together, Foundation resources purchased technology, collections, and furnishings that were not in the City’s construction budget. Since 2021, when the library opened, the Foundation has turned its efforts toward building a sustainable funding source for the library by asking our community for support.
The Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization separate and independent of City government. We raise money from individuals, businesses and charitable foundations to supplement, not supplant public funding for the library.
The Foundation is governed by a Board of Directors who carefully steward the generosity of our donors and works closely with the Library Director to provide funds for critical library resources and programming each year.
The Foundation began with the mission of raising funds for the new library. Building on the generous bequest from Paul O. Blanchette we ran the successful community ASPIRE Campaign which, in total, raised nearly $1 million.
Together, Foundation resources purchased technology, collections, and furnishings that were not in the City’s construction budget. Since 2021, when the library opened, the Foundation has turned its efforts toward building a sustainable funding source for the library by asking our community for support.
The Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization separate and independent of City government. We raise money from individuals, businesses and charitable foundations to supplement, not supplant public funding for the library.
The Foundation is governed by a Board of Directors who carefully steward the generosity of our donors and works closely with the Library Director to provide funds for critical library resources and programming each year.
Foundation Board of Directors
Penne Tompkins, Chair
Penrose Jackson, Vice Chair
Ted Lenski, Treasurer
Anne Gilson LaLonde, Secretary
Kevin Morgenstein Fuerst
Holly Painter
John Simson
Nancy Simson
Penne Tompkins, Chair
Penrose Jackson, Vice Chair
Ted Lenski, Treasurer
Anne Gilson LaLonde, Secretary
Kevin Morgenstein Fuerst
Holly Painter
John Simson
Nancy Simson
The South Burlington Library Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization, was created in 2018 for the sole purpose of receiving, managing, and investing contributions, gifts, and bequests exclusively for the benefit of South Burlington Public Library (SBPL) and in support of its charitable, literary, cultural, educational, social, and other purposes.