Organization
Decatur Public Library Foundation
The Decatur Public Library strengthens the community by: promoting the love of reading and life-long discovery, helping ensure children and teens are ready and excited to learn, offering robust connections to the digital world, advancing economic and workforce development, and providing a creative and welcoming environment for all.
Member's Wish List
Item/Purpose | $ Amount | % Funded |
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3 Branch Lego Table |
$5,000 |
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3 Branch Light Table |
$5,700 |
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Celebratory Items What’s an anniversary or birthday without favors? The Library would like to hand out small items to our patrons and community throughout the year and host monthly drawings. |
$15,000 |
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Color Run Supplies As a part of the Library’s 150th Anniversary celebrations, we’re planning a Color Run. These funds would be used to purchase 200 color cannons and color packets for the participants. This event will be open to all ages as a fun run, during which participants will be encouraged to wear white and become covered in color via the environmentally safe colored powders. |
$3,200 |
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Commemorative Pint Glasses The Library is collaborating with Decatur Brew Works on a brew to commemorate our 150th anniversary. The library would like to offer a branded pint glass, with the logos from involved parties. |
$5,000 |
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Marketing Materials The Library would like to celebrate and promote our 150th anniversary with banners, feather flags and street pole banners. As well as, the purchase of additional feather flags to mark the path and turns along the color run |
$8,000 |
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Year-Long Reading Challenge The Library will be running a year-long reading challenge, throughout 2025 in conjunction with the 150th anniversary celebration. We would like to provide tangible incentives (such as an enamel pin) at the 150- and 300-day marks. Approximately, 10,000 items at $1-1.50/item = $10-12,000. The Library would also like to offer a drawing for the chance to win larger items, such as tablets and VR equipment. We are planning for 8-10 drawing prizes for those reaching 150 days by the Library’s anniversary in August and 4-5 drawing prizes for those reaching 300 days by the end of 2025. The number of drawing prizes will correspond to the number of participants. Approximately $250 per prize option = $3-4,000 |
$16,000 |
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