Featured Fundraising Initiative
Every $100 donated for KDL Books for Babies puts a baby board book and valuable library resources into the hands of 30 families with newborns. Together, we can inspire a lifelong love of reading and learning in our community's children.
Reading to babies boosts cognitive and language development, strengthens the caregiver-child bond, and builds a foundation for future literacy skills. Doing this is so important because a child’s brain doubles in size in their first year with 90% of brain development happening before age five.
Make a Gift that Lasts
- Planned Giving: Leave a legacy by supporting the Library via bequests, charitable IRA distributions, gifts from your estate and will, and more. Provide free and open access to education and opportunity for generations to come.
- Honor & Memorial Gifts: Remember or celebrate someone special by making a gift in a loved one's name.
- Book Dedication: Print a name and personalized message inside a Kent District Library circulating book.
Ways To Give
1. Donate
A gift to our library helps us provide library material, service and programming needs that rise above millage funding. Unrestricted gifts allow the library to direct funds where they are most needed. You may also direct your gift toward a specific branch.
2. Company Match
Your gift could be matched by your employer! Check with your HR department to see if your company has a matching gift program. It’s a simple way to increase the impact of your contribution.
3. Be a Sponsor
Sponsoring a program, an item on the wish list of one of our branches, or an event gives you or your business a unique opportunity for charitable giving and gets your name in front of thousands in our community. Contact us at contact@kdl.org or (616) 784-2007 for current sponsorship opportunities.
4. Volunteer
KDL volunteers bring Information, Ideas, and Excitement to everything we do. As a volunteer, YOU connect KDL to COMMUNITY! Volunteers grow support for the importance of libraries! Learn more about our current volunteer opportunities.