Richmond Public Library Foundation

susan.revere@rva.gov
804-646-5511
Main Library
101 East Franklin Street
Richmond, VA 23219


Richmond Public Library Foundation relies on donations to support Richmond Public Library’s mission to Inform, Enrich, and Empower.

 

Your donations support valuable library programs like:

RVA reads event at a Richmond preschool

RVA Reads

Richmond Public Library’s early literacy program connects young Richmonders with books and helps build school readiness and early literacy skills. Active in daycares, childcare centers, and Richmond Public School’s preschool centers. For more details and to sign up to volunteer, visit here.

VSU choir singing at Main Library

Gellman Concert Series

Offers free concerts highlighting numerous genres to the public since 1973. If you can’t join us in person, you can watch online here. 

Richmond Room and Memory Lab

The Richmond Room is home to Richmond Public Library’s Business, Law, and Nonprofit resources. Also a good entry point to the Memory Lab , and a place to start your genealogy, family, or neighborhood research in our Local History and Special Collections.

A Summer Intern Holding several books about basketball

Early Learning Summer Intern Program

Summer is a key time for libraries, children, and literacy. With your support, the Foundation offers a structured, mentored, and paid college intern program. This program increases library capacity and helps young families connect with literacy resources and programs.

Logo for the annual Read Up Richmond program

Read Up Richmond

Read Up Richmond is an opportunity for people from different walks of life to come together, learn together, and enter into a conversation with our larger community. Join us as we Read. Listen. Connect each fall.

Volunteer with RVA Reads

RVA Reads volunteers read and gift books to over a thousand young readers across the City of Richmond. You can join our efforts to increase literacy rates across Richmond.

How can I help today?

Among other efforts, your donation helps us expand programs, fund summer internships, and enable upgrades to children’s and young adult areas across the library system. The Foundation accepts gifts of cash, online donations, or by check. Library supporters can make gifts through wills and trusts, IRA gifts through required minimum distributions or qualified charitable donations, and through gifts of stock. Gifts are tax-deductible as allowed by law. Thank you for investing in Richmond Public Library.

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