Donations At Work
Our Library is a local treasure, an internationally award-winning architectural gem, and the beating heart of our community. Your support goes way beyond books. The Billings Public Library is our community living room and a center for connection, learning, and growth.
You Make the
Magic Happen
Your Support Has Funded Programs Like These
Providing a Margin of Excellence
For over three decades, the Billings Public Library Foundation has committed to ensuring the long-term financial health and growth of the Billings Public Library through private giving and our endowment. Through a public-private alliance, the Foundation’s vision is to offer our community a library with the best resources and most innovative services and programming possible.
Nurturing Young Minds
By the age of 3 a child’s brain is twice as active as an adult’s. The pre-kindergarten years are crucial to developing lifelong reading and learning habits and that’s why the Foundation proudly sponsor’s the Library’s 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program. We incentivize young readers and their families, from day one, to ensure that all of Billings’ kids go into Kindergarten ready to flourish.
Bridging the Digital Divide
Our goal to provide access to technology and resources began with providing mobile hotspots, laptops, teen labs, and charging stations. Our recent partnership to open the new CO+Lab is bringing creativity and innovation to makers of all ages. The CO+LAB is a dynamic makerspace where creativity, learning, and collaboration come to life. Designed for all skill levels, it offers cutting-edge tools, specialized equipment, and engaging programs to help you explore, learn, and create in an inclusive and welcoming environment.
Meeting Billings Where It’s At
A Library is more than four walls — it’s a community service and we’re working hard to get out of our building and into the community. The Foundation sponsored Pedal Powered Library regularly makes its way across town to provide Library materials and free Wi-Fi . We offer Story Trails at Josephine Crossing and Castlerock Park. Our Library Express Lockers are now operating in 4 locations making materials even more accessible after hours. The Foundation is working to provide additional lockers throughout the community to meet the needs of all of Billings’ residents — regardless of where they are.
When you give a gift to the Library, your generosity lasts for generations to come. Libraries have always been, and will continue to be essential to our communities, and the Foundation works hard every day to go above and beyond to make library resources relevant and accessible like never before. When you plan a gift to the library through your estate, you’re ensuring that your legacy will last as long as we do.
Generous donations and community support make the magic happen. Your investments have enriched our Library, and in turn, helped shape the lives of countless people throughout Yellowstone County.
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Libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read,
freedom of ideas, freedom of communication.
They are about education, about entertainment, about making safe spaces, and about access to information.
—Neil Gaiman