Janet McKelvey
Foundation Board Chair
The Toronto Public Library Foundation believes that a great library is a fundamental requirement for any city to achieve its full social and economic potential. We believe that Toronto’s Library is absolutely vital to the city we live in, and vital to our city’s success.
The results of our fundraising efforts in 2009 prove you do, too! Despite the economic downturn, donors responded generously in recognition of how vital the library is to them personally, and to our city. As a result we realized our best year ever with increased fundraising revenues and gifts-in-kind benefiting the library in unique and meaningful ways.
Since our inception in 1997, the support of our donors has enabled the Toronto Public Library Foundation to raise over $47 million dollars to enhance the collections, programs and services, and community spaces of Toronto’s Library. We could not have achieved such success without our generous donors, and for that we thank you.
This report gives us an opportunity to recap some of the year’s highlights. Thank you to everyone who helped make 2009 such a success. We look forward to working with each and every one of you to build on this great momentum in 2010.
