Support Your Library

Celebrate our 100th Anniversary

Our core community programs and services are largely supported by donors like you. Help us empower individuals and communities by providing opportunities for all to read, learn, create and connect.

Make your mark with a 100th anniversary gift

Make your mark with a 100th anniversary gift

Gifts of $100 or more in 2022 will be recognized in our online library catalog as a special, one-time Catalog of CCPL Foundation Donors. Establish your place among your favorite authors by adding your name to the library catalog!

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Our Impact

Our Impact

This year, our Foundation has designated more than $200,000 for critical programs. Kindergarten Club, a highly successful program that ensures early childhood success and family engagement, is one of the programs our Foundation funds so it can continue to help families and children in need.

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Join Our Generous Community

Ex Libris Society

The Cuyahoga County Public Library Foundation established the Ex Libris Society to honor and show appreciation to its most loyal and generous donors. Their support and commitment sustains the Library’s programs and services for future generations.

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Library Loyalist

Donate every month and become a Library Loyalist! New Library Loyalists will get a signed book of their choice.

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1922 Society

Individuals who make a commitment to the Cuyahoga County Public Library Foundation’s future through a bequest or planned gift become members of the 1922 Society, named for the year the Library was established.

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Other Ways to Support

Donor-Advised Funds

Direct Your DAF designation to CCPL Foundation. Our EIN is 26-0042432. When you make a DAF gift, please send us a note at [email protected] when you’ve made a gift so we can make sure to thank you and ensure that your gift gets to where it is intended.

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Matching Gift

Your employer may offer a matching gift program. Click the button below to find out if your employer will double your donation!

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Stocks & Securities

A gift of Stocks/Securities may help you avoid paying tax on capital gains.

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Fundraising Events

Flourish

Flourish is Cuyahoga County Public Library Foundation’s culinary fundraiser that raises funds to support our youth literacy programs. Look forward to a night of amazing food and phenomenal silent auction items that are all for a good cause!

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Reading the Green

Reading the Green is the Cuyahoga County Public Library Foundation’s annual golf outing and is always a sellout. Held at the beautiful Lakewood Country Club, the event is always filled with great golf, friends and food!

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The William N. Skirball Writers Center Stage Series

The Cuyahoga County Public Library Foundation’s signature event — the William N. Skirball Writers Center Stage Series — brings the literary world’s best writers, journalists and storytellers to the Maltz Performing Arts Center at Case Western Reserve University.

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Volunteer

Opportunities

We have volunteer opportunities available for our programs 1-2-3 READ, Homework Centers, and STEAM activities.

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Join a Friends Group

Our Library has 25 individual Friends of the Library organizations associated with our branches. The Friends organizations throughout our system fund programs in part through used books sales.

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