2019 ANNUAL REPORT FOUNDATION STRATEGIC BOARD INITIATIVES Susie Younkle, President Heather Clefisch, Vice President Grow restricted gifts to increase MISSION Ron Bote, Treasurer monetary support for the library. Tanya Salman, Secretary Madison Public Library Allen Arntsen, Immediate Past Improve fundraising in all areas, Foundation promotes and President with increased investment in the Gail Ambrosius supports Madison’s public development team to expand Sheila Conroy money available to the library. library facilities, services Tom DeChant and programs. Ariel Ford Build a strategic collaboration Noel Goeddel with the library to fund innovation, Dick Goldberg urgent needs and special Shanna Wolf VISION Jeanne Grist campaigns. Madison Public Library Jennifer Hannon Christopher Hughes Foundation provides Support racial equity and inclusion OUR CORE Marnie Hulan in library and foundation activities leadership and resources to John Icke through funding, and staff and VALUES Christopher Jaye help develop and sustain a board makeup. Shannon Kleiber Support world-class library system. Tom Kuplic Anne Lucke Leadership Nancy Pandhi Integrity Jillana Peterson Nadine Pfotenhauer Inclusiveness Jaime Healy-Plotkin Phil Plourd Advocacy Rajesh Rajaraman Natalie Rew Francesca Rodriquez Melissa Selinger Gene Williams Shanna Wolf Shanna Wolf Shanna Wolf Foundation board member Tanya Salman at Lunch for Libraries Sam Faulkner, Events Director at A Room of One's Own; board member Marnie Hulan; Lisa Ryan; and library 2 and foundation board member Jaime Healy-Plotkin at the Wisconsin Book Festival Schedule Launch Party 3 STRATEGIC LENS LITERACY is the ability to MISSION Shanna Wolf interpret and understand. It is our purpose. Madison Public Library Library Director of Public Services Krissy Wick (center) at the provides free and equitable Dream Bus grand opening ENGAGEMENT encompasses access to cultural and LIBRARY how we connect to the community and build relationships. It is how educational experiences. BOARD we do business. We celebrate ideas, Jaime Healy-Plotkin, President Shanna Wolf promote creativity, Jair Alvarez, Vice President COMMUNITY includes all of Alyssa Kenney, Secretary/Treasurer Madison. It is who we serve. connect people and (January–October) OUR CORE enrich lives. Cindy Fesemyer, Secretary/Treasurer EQUITY refers to the measures (November–December) we take to help the people in VALUES VISION Eve Galanter our community realize their full Learning in Lisa Hempstead, MMSD potential. It is how we serve. all forms Madison Public Library: Representative Ald. Barbara Harrington-McKinney, ACCOUNTABILITY means we take your place to learn, City Council Member Diverse responsibility for our actions and share and create. Joseph Rosas perspectives Greg Dunkelberger produce results. It is our promise. Intellectual freedom Customer experience Collaboration Innovation Shanna Wolf Making a difference Library Director Greg Mickells speaking at the Goodman South Madison Library remodeling celebration 4 5 2019 FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOUNDATION REVENUES $3,353,431 FOUNDATION EXPENSES $2,302,518 1. Contributions: Program services $2,259,086 1. Grants: $981,825 2 1 2. Special events: 2. Capital New $ 1 9 1 , 0 3 1 campaigns: 1 donors 2 3. Investment $586,552 3 659 Loyal Friends income: 3 . Wisconsin donors 3 Fundraising $ 3 2 , 9 7 5 Book Festival: event proceeds 265 4. Investment $ 2 1 5 , 8 9 6 4 $131,876 income on 4 Supporting services assets held at 4. Administration: Madison *Investment income earned from assets $147,674 5 held at Madison Community Foundation Total Community increases endowment funds, which annually 5. Fundraising: donors Foundation*: support library and foundation staff, Sustainers collections, facilities and program services. $370,571 2,961 $870,339 Grants 60 awarded AGENCY ENDOWMENTS 2019 2018 $154,850 Alicia Ashman Library Endowment Fund $53,540 27,177 Central Library Endowment Fund $182,702 161,117 Number of gifts Goodman South Madison Library Endowment Fund $208,906 188,153 Volunteers 4,232 Hawthorne Library Endowment Fund $24,650 21,380 135 Lakeview Library Endowment Fund $123,944 110,420 Professional Development Endowment Fund $7,431 – Rosemary Lee Civic Engagement Internship Fund $80,000 – Book Festival Madison Public Library Foundation Endowment Fund $5,415,022 4,751,349 B e q u e s t s members & Meadowridge Library Endowment Fund $130,458 114,087 benefactors 7 Mohaupt Fund for the Sequoya Branch Library $93,519 84,810 111 Summer Reading Pinney Monroe Street Library Endowment Fund $26,647 23,269 bicycle Program Judy P. Olson Book Discussion Kit Fund $14,745 13,365 funds racks sponsored Pinney Library Endowment Fund $63,834 49,790 Pinney raised capital $17,164 35 Print Books Purchase Fund $109,105 98,928 campaign Elizabeth Moon Proctor Scholarship & Professional gifts Development Fund $68,296 $ 61,612 224 Sequoya Library Endowment Fund $363,800 326,618 TOTAL $6,793,080 $ 5,947,265 $225,245 from the endowment funds were reinvested into the library and foundation in 2019. 7 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Workshops, conferences, webinars and other training events helped library employees grow personally and ANNUAL FUND This fund includes any contributions professionally. Numerous staff traveled to conferences that the donor doesn’t earmark for a particular purpose. With these and major literary events, including BookExpo America, dollars, the library is able to boost collections and technology; offer the International Book Fair and the Oral History Association Annual Meeting. Others participated in innovative, equitable programming; help library employees grow in local career growth events like the YWCA Racial Justice their careers; and serve patrons in many other ways. Summit. Staff Day facilitated training, team building and conversations among the entire library’s staff. TECHNOLOGY Funds were used for software licenses like Adobe Creative Suite so library patrons can access useful PROGRAM VENTURE FUND programs that they may not have on their own computer, The Bubbler used the Program Venture Fund to work and to improve patrons’ user experiences across library with a local software company on building an app that computers and other equipment based on a consultant’s will help staff measure the effectiveness and impact of recommendations and an Access to Independence audit. Bubbler programs for kids, teens and other community members. This app will make it easier to collect COLLECTIONS observational data on things that are hard to measure, such as creativity and engagement. The library added hundreds of eBooks, graphic novels, board books, picture books and teen nonfiction titles, as well as audiovisual items. MINI-GRANTS These smaller amounts of money went toward: • a redesign of the Kidspages youth library newsletter EQUITY & INNOVATION • community English classes at Goodman South Madison Library These grants introduce underserved people to new tech- nology, culturally diverse library materials, and inclusive • recruiting new library staff at national conferences library experiences in meaningful ways. Efforts included: • the weeklong Black Arts Matter Festival, which • the Meadowridge Virtual Learning Project, which included performances, a poetry slam contest, employed virtual reality-based gaming equipment a film screening and other events (through PlayStation) to teach real-world information • an intern position that tracked program attendance library concepts to children and young adults and surveyed families to inform future programming • new World Language Collection titles to better serve • Celebrating the 10 Avatars (Dashavatar), a non-English and ESL readers celebration of Indian and South Asian heritage with • an out-of-school program model based on the dance performances, demonstrations, art-making philosophy of True Play opportunities and Indian food • expansion of the Madison Living History Project to • the Community-Driven Book Club Kits, which gather and preserve oral histories of people from supported local authors, promoted discussion, all walks of life and amplified historically under-represented voices and subject matter • Library Takeover, which equipped marginalized groups with funding, staff time and space to design their 8 own events 9 DREAM BUS DEBUT Library, foundation and county officials cele- closest library branch. It’s important to LEAD GIFTS Numerous individuals, brated the grand opening of the Dream Bus provide access to materials to people where on April 10 — also National Bookmobile Day — they are.” businesses, foundations and organizations helped our at Kennedy Heights Community Center. The Dream Bus collection includes: libraries meet community needs with contributions to The mobile library is a cooperative project • fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels and young our funding priorities. It was a fantastic year, and many of Madison Public Library and Dane County adult/teen books in English and Spanish lives were touched by the library's work. Library Service that brings collections, exterior • films and other videos in English and Spanish programming space and free Wi-Fi to five • music and audiobooks under-resourced neighborhoods weekly: Allied • stories told from diverse points of view, Drive, Leopold, Vera Court/Kennedy Heights, and featuring characters of many cultures Reindahl Park and Park Edge/Park Ridge (near GOODMAN SOUTH MADISON LIBRARY REMODELING and backgrounds Elver Park). Staff circulate books, provide Goodman South Madison Library got a Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway said she’s