News & Events.Our community deserves a much-improved space for meetings and events. Vineyard Haven Public Library Building Fund, Inc. (VHPLBFI) is undertaking a capital campaign to make this idea a reality.
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Capital Campaign Announces 2022 Matching Gift!
New challenge will cover costs for state-of-the-art audiovisual systems
VINEYARD HAVEN January 20, 2022 -- The Library Building Fund is pleased to announce a new fundraising challenge for 2022. A local family of year-round Tisbury residents has offered to match one dollar for every two dollars raised up to $30,000, for a total of $90,000 to be raised through this challenge.
Funds raised through the "Media Challenge" will support expenses related to optimizing multimedia presentations in the new facility. Plans call for up-to-date technology, lighting and acoustics, including a state-of-the art sound system with assisted hearing loop, a large retractable projection screen with a high resolution projection system, and large windows opening the room to the garden but that can be easily darkened with drop-down blackout shades.
The capital campaign has now passed the halfway point towards the $2 million fundraising goal. A challenge grant from the Sibbri Foundation in 2021 raised more than $100,000, bringing the total raised to more than $1 million as of January 1st!
$50,000 Challenge Grant for Vineyard Haven Library Capital Campaign
Matching grant could put Library Building Fund over halfway mark for capital campaign
VINEYARD HAVEN September 28, 2021 -- The Vineyard Haven Public Library Building Fund, Inc. is pleased to announce a $50,000 challenge grant from the Sibbri Foundation. The grant calls for the Library Building Fund to raise $50,000 by December 31, 2021, which will then be matched dollar for dollar by the Sibbri Foundation. Every gift or pledge for a future gift made before the end of 2021 will be counted towards the challenge, so a gift or pledge today will be doubled.
VHPLBFI is raising the funds needed for the library addition project through gifts and grants, without further taxpayer funding. To date, VHPLBFI has raised approximately $900,000 towards the $2 million campaign goal. An additional $50,000 in gifts to be matched by the Sibbri Foundation would take the campaign past the halfway mark. "We’ve seen wonderful support for the library and look forward to meeting this fundraising milestone near the end of this year,” said Building Fund President Arch Smith. “We are excited to have the Sibbri Foundation gift to offer encouragement to bolster donations, with a matching grant every donation becomes even more important.
On Thursday August 5th at 5pm, join us for a special fundraising event with author Martha Hall Kelly at the West Chop Club Casino. Martha will discuss Sunflower Sisters, her second prequel novel following her bestselling historical fiction debut, Lilac Girls. This limited-capacity event is sponsored by the Vineyard Haven Library Building Fund, Inc. Reserve your place early to meet Martha and learn about the Library's exciting new program room project. A reception and book signing will follow the talk. Copies of Sunflower Sisters will be available for purchase.
Tickets are $10 and may be purchased online: www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-martha-hall-kelly-to-benefit-vineyard-haven-library-tickets-161676710393
Vineyard Haven Library Building Fund appreciates the generosity of the West Chop Community for providing the event space.
Tickets are $10 and may be purchased online: www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-martha-hall-kelly-to-benefit-vineyard-haven-library-tickets-161676710393
Vineyard Haven Library Building Fund appreciates the generosity of the West Chop Community for providing the event space.
On Thursday, July 9th at 5pm, The Vineyard Haven Public Library Building Fund presented a free virtual event with New York Times Book Review Editor Pamela Paul. Pamela Paul is the editor of the New York Times Book Review and oversees books coverage at the New York Times, which she joined in 2011 as the children’s books editor. She is also the host of the weekly Book Review podcast for the Times. She is the author and editor of five books, including My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues, and How to Raise a Reader, co-authored with Maria Russo. Her work has appeared in the Atlantic, the Washington Post, the New York Times Magazine, Time, the New York Times Education Life, the Economist, Vogue, Psychology Today, and other national publications. This event was presented as a conversation facilitated by Vineyard Haven seasonal resident Maureen Sullivan, a widely-recognized leader and educator in the library profession and past president of the American Library Association.
View a recording of the event: Pamela Paul: How to Raise a Reader
View a recording of the event: Pamela Paul: How to Raise a Reader
