The Library opens its doors for everyone. The Foundation helps widen what is possible once you walk through them.
Discover how the Fort Worth Public Library Foundation funds literacy, college advising, music, STEAM and other free community programs and how you can help.
Public funding builds the framework. Donors help fill it with possibility.
The Fort Worth Public Library is a City service, and public funding supports its essential operations. But tax dollars cannot cover every program, resource or new idea that could help our neighbors.
That is where the Fort Worth Public Library Foundation comes in.
We work alongside Library staff to understand what people across Fort Worth need and raise private support to help make it happen. Donor generosity helps bring free college advising, early-literacy programs, music experiences, technology, adult education and more within reach.
When you give to the Foundation, you give to the Library and to the people who walk through its doors every day.
A Library card can lead almost anywhere! It can help a child fall in love with stories, an adult work toward a high school equivalency credential, a teenager make sense of college applications or a local musician find a new audience. The Foundation supports programs that give curiosity somewhere to go and give neighbors of every age a place to take their next step.
Amplify 817 helps local musicians reach new listeners, build professional connections and contribute to a music collection that sounds distinctly Fort Worth. Come out and listen to the sounds of our city at the annual 817 Showcase and celebrate the community growing around their work.
Check out Amplify817
LaunchPad college Application and mentoring turns “Where do I start?” into a real plan. Students receive free, individual guidance with college selection, applications, essays and the decisions that come with planning what happens after high school.
Explore LaunchPad
Big questions are welcome at the library. Hands-on science, technology, engineering, arts and math programs invite young people to test ideas, build something new and discover what happens when curiosity gets a few tools to work with.
Discover STEAM Programs
One thousand books. One very proud reader. Families read together, mark each milestone and build an early relationship with books long before the first day of school.
Start Reading TogetherLibraries begin with words: stories, questions and ideas passed from one person to another. But confidence, connection and opportunity are built through what people can do with those words. With the support of donors like you, knowledge becomes a plan, a skill, a performance, an application or a new place to belong.
Watch how the Fort Worth Public Library Foundation helps move our community from words to action and from ideas to impact.
Your gift can help provide a college advising session, a STEAM workshop, an instrument to rent or a welcoming place to gather.
No matter the size, your contribution helps Fort Worth’s libraries respond to the people who rely on them and make room for the ideas that should come next.
Ways to give to the Fort Worth Public Library Foundation:
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