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Libraries often have more potential supporters around them than they realize. My Library Support Map is a practical LSN tool that helps library staff, fundraisers, board members, Friends, and volunteers identify the people who already care about their library, those connected to it, and others who could become donors, advocates, connectors, or champions. Especially useful for libraries getting started with fundraising, the tool shifts the focus from fundraising tactics to relationships and helps users identify one person they can begin engaging now. As an LSN Organization Member, you have access to this and many other tools to help support your work.

Strong public library foundations do more than raise money. They help libraries increase visibility, deepen community partnerships, demonstrate public value, and plan for long-term sustainability. This LSN framework offers a practical way for foundation leaders, boards, and library directors to understand what strategic foundation leadership can look like.

Every library foundation evolves. The question is whether its strategy, board, systems, and library partnership are evolving with it.

LSN’s Public Library Foundation Lifecycle Framework offers a simple way to understand where a foundation may be in its development and what questions leaders should be asking next. Designed for public library foundations and their library partners, the framework can support board reflection, strategic planning, leadership transitions, and conversations about long-term sustainability and impact.