Dear Friends,

Cambridge is a city of learners. And in this city of people who aspire to create and maintain an exceptional quality of life for all residents, a great public library—like ours—is essential.

But what makes a good library great? I would argue that the investment of private philanthropy makes all the difference. For as long as libraries have existed in this country, the generosity of people and private institutions has always helped make that leap.

The Cambridge Public Library Foundation serves as the vehicle for philanthropic investment in this wonderful institution, and we are steadfast in our commitment to the Library’s continued innovation, dedication to democracy and equality, and ability to respond to emerging community needs. The Library is always evolving to meet the needs of Cambridge residents, better protect people’s rights, and encourage personal growth for everyone who walks through the doors. We are so proud to aid these efforts.

In the past year, and with your support, the Cambridge Public Library Foundation has invested almost $100,000 in ongoing library programs for families, immigrants, and seniors; innovation in the Library’s STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) spaces; and strategic planning that will benefit our community for generations to come (see more on page 3).

I hope these pages inspire you. Thank you for choosing to invest in Cambridge’s greatest democratic institution: the Cambridge Public Library.

Sincerely,

Shippen L. Page President, Library Foundation Board of Directors

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$2,000 MINDFULNESS PROGRAMMINGIn collaboration with the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine at UMASS Medical, the Library hosted an Introduction to Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program. This lecture examined the science, benefits and practice of mindfulness, as well as tools and strategies for responding effectively to stressors in everyday life.

$11,500 CHILDREN’S ROOM MURAL A large-scale mural inspired by the work of Cambridge resident, and children’s book author and illustrator Ed Emberley, was painted in the Children’s Room in January. The mural was created by local artist Caleb Neelon, who has authored or collaborated on more than two dozen books, and whose art can be seen around the world.

YOUR FOUNDATION GIFTS AT WORK!$6,894CURIOUS GEORGE LECTUREThis year’s 3rd annual Margaret & H.A. Rey Curious George Lecture Series featured acclaimed graphic novelist Kazu Kibuishi. Mr. Kibuishi, a New York Times bestselling author, kept an audience of 200+ children and adults captivated with his personal story and photographs, and answered questions while demonstrating a “digital painting” technique.

$10,000SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, ARTS AND MATH PROGRAMMINGThrough a partnership with local organization Innovators for Purpose, the Library has provided intensive Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math (STEAM) programming for youth, ages 11-16 in Cambridge. Working in the Library space, students created robots that help differently abled people, designed and built a permanent wayfinding art installation in Kendall Square, and are currently developing an Augmented Reality app that will help publicize the Library’s new Hive makerspace.

$36,803 STRATEGIC PLANNINGThe Library has undergone a very thorough strategic planning process, led by a professional consultant, over the last year. The process has included months of community input through surveys, social media, and community forums as well as robust staff involvement, and concept development. The new strategic plan will guide the Library’s service to the community over the next three to five years.

$1,850 MUSIC IN THE PARK SERIESA series of three family-friendly musical concerts were held on the Library lawn, featuring a Senegalese dance/pop music group, an all-women salsa band, and a jazz ensemble.

$5,876 PROGRAMMING FOR SENIORSThe Creative Aging program, for adults 55+, is a series of intensive eight-week courses that center on the arts. Taught by certified artists and instructors, the goal is to offer participants an opportunity to learn new skills and forge connections with other community members. This year’s courses included Poetry, Drawing and Storytelling.

$13,742 LIBRARY MATERIALSThe Library continues to invest in its collections at a high rate. Some materials, including new Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math (STEAM) kits and some foreign language editions either are outside the scope of the budget or are difficult to procure through traditional methods. The Foundation is proud to support the Library by contributing funds for its collections.

$500 ARCHIVESThe Cambridge Room, the Library’s archive, hired a consultant who digitized, described and made available an additional 200 photographs from the local documentary photographer Olive Pierce. The consultant also processed the personal papers of Nancy Venable Raine, a poet-in-residence at the Cambridge Arts Council when it was founded in the late 1970s.

$9,877 LIBRARY DIRECTOR’S DISCRETIONARY FUNDThese funds cover the costs of small projects and Library needs that present themselves throughout the year.

Participants in the Library’s Creative Aging Drawing class

The Ed Emberley-inspired mural in the Children’s Room.

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PATRONS & CIRCULATION

PROGRAMS

1,200,944 print & AV items were circulated

52,326 items were added to the collection

175,248 reference questions were answered

7,954 books circulated through senior services

628 book deliveries made to seniors

62% of programs were for children and families, bringing out 52,000 participants

431 preschool storytimes

304 visits to preschools

490 toddler sing-alongs

1,344 welcome baby bags

2,096 programs were offered for children, teens and adults

80,000 people attended a program at the Library

Programs outside the library had 14,872 participants

169 book groups met

The Library had over 900,000 visitors last year

80,000 active cardholders

9,700 cardholders were added

COMPUTER USAGE

ARCHIVES

LITERACY

MUSEUM PASSES

8,000 museum passes were borrowed for access to 13 local museums

The Cambridge Room has 94 collections spanning 393 subjects for research

2,665 learningsessions were driven by 4,400 volunteer hours serving 9,600 attendees from 60+ countries

Computers were logged-on to 129,564 times

9,600 patrons took a computer class

Digitized historic material had 32,000 monthly views

BY THE NUMBERS

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Almost 500 donors contributed to the Foundation’s success in fiscal year 2019. To all, thank you! We recognize and appreciate the following individuals, businesses, foundations and community organizations. A § symbol designates that the donor has given every year since the Foundation’s inception in 2015. A ǂ symbol designates that either part or the entire gift was for the Foundation’s Endowment. $10,000 +Anonymous DonorJanet Axelrod and Tim Plenk §Cambridge Trust CompanyAmy Domini ǂ§Paul FunkKatie LappNellie Mae Education FoundationShippen Page and Anne St. Goar §Debbie Porter and Nicholas Negroponte ǂGoogle.orgNancy and Fred Woods ǂ§

$5,000 - $9,000Ed Belove and Laura Roberts §Luise Erdmann §Kate and Ben FlaimLia and William Poorvu §Stan and Susan Twarog §

$2,500 - $4,999Anonymous DonorCathy Chute §

Dena B. FeldsteinElizabeth and John GilmoreSuzanne OgdenBetsy Rudnick and Bruce Posner §

$1,000 - $2,499Anonymous Donor (2)Glenn Batchelder and Candace YoungCarly and Sam BerkSusan A. BernsteinGenevieve Berumen and Saul TannenbaumJudy and John BrightKay Calvert and Jim ManziMissy and Marshall CarterDonna Davis §Thad and Lulu DavisSusan Flannery §Elissa Freud and Steven WillisMarnie and Seth GaleLauren K. GibbsTunie Hamlen §Carol and Michael HirshLauren Holleran and Katie SalterRichard M. and Priscilla HuntJaqueth Hutchinson §The Johnson FamilyEdward Kerslake and Melinda GrayBill and Elisabeth LaskinTom LehrerJane and Wayne LiJenny Netzer and Ellis SeidmanChristian Nolen and Susan DennyPatricia C. PayneWilliam L. RawnGail Roberts

Abby Rockefeller and Lee HalprinManuel Rogers, Jr.Ann and Jim Roosevelt, Jr. §Julia SheehanThe Steinert FamilyKatie and Ryan WelchRobert Zevin §

$500 - $999Anonymous DonorBarbara BogerKathleen and John BornRegis de SilvaStefanie and Anish DhandaFrederick EkMartin Elvis and Guiseppina FabbianoJean EntineJulia and Lansing FairPam and Don GillerAndy Goldberg and Suzi WojdyslawskiSandy Gould and Jon ComeGail and Roy GreenwaldSusan Hall and David BassWendy HoldingMartin and Marci KarplusSonia Kowal and James WildashEllen KramerStuart and Sally Lesser §Jane and George MetzgerLynne and Neal MillerKyra and Coco MontaguJane and Robert Morse §Susan PaineMary-Lou PardueRiva PoorCathy and Jim RaffertyTamara and Tony Rogers

David Sandberg and Dina Mardell §Ellen Semonoff §Nancy and Rae StieningRamie Targoff and Stephen GreenblattJohn Walsh Charles O. Wood, III and Miriam M. Wood §Susan B. Wood

$250 - $499Anonymous Donor (4)Peter and Mary Lee AldrichHolly and David AmblerPhilip Balboni and Elizabeth HoughtelingPatsy Baudoin and Madge KaplanRuth A. ButlerJohn F. Cogan, Jr. and Mary CornilleElizabeth Coxe and David ForneyAnn and Alfred CromptonMonica and Matthew CurtisJone and Saleh Daher, JrDavid and Katharine DavisAlessandro Doria and Chiara GerhardingerAnne Ellsworth §Micheline FedermanCarol L. FishmanShanti Fry and Jeffrey ZinsmeyerJoshua FuhrmannSusan GlassmanPatricia and Loren GrahamLindsay and Garth Greimann §Betsy GrobanAnne GualanoRobert Higgins

THANK YOU TO OUR SUPPORTERS2019 FINANCIALS (JULY 1, 2018 - JUNE 30, 2019)

ADOPTED BUDGET

REVENUE Fines & Forfeiture $65,000 Donated Funds $176,000 Intergovernmental Revenue $439,040 Taxes $10,821,120TOTAL $11,501,160

EXPENSES Salaries & Wages $8,270,170 Library Services $2,977,840 Travel & Training $77,150 TOTAL $11,325,160

UNAUDITED FINANCIALS

REVENUE Contributions $262,358 Unrealized Investment Income $96,692 Realized Investment Income $12,091 Grants $90,000 TOTAL $461,141

EXPENSES Foundation Expenses $207,635 Library Contributions $99,043 TOTAL $306,679

CURRENT ASSETS Cash $280,814 Pledges Receivable $65,937 Grants Receivable $20,000 Prepaid Expenses $5,230 Accrued Interest $902 Investments $1,072,676 TOTAL ASSETS $1,445,559

CURRENT LIABILITIES Accounts Payable $2,797Accrued Expenses $7,653 TOTAL LIABILITIES $10,450

NET ASSETS Unrestricted $611,664 Temporarily Restricted $507,899 Permanently Restricted $315,546 TOTAL NET ASSETS $1,435,109

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Romaine and Mary HornJacqueline and Jonathan KingJudy Kramer and Mark WagnerBill and Lisa LaheyWynn LeeWinifred LenihanCynthia LivingstonYo-Yo Ma and Jill HornorJohn D. and Kristin H. MacomberAdelaide MacMurray-Cooper and David CooperCatherine MannickSusan NapierAnna and Larry NathansonVictoria and Mark OlivaBarbara and Art PowellPaul and Ann SaganEllen Sarkisian §Marion and John SchoonSara SegallRobert N. ShapiroMartha and Tim ShawRina Spence and Gary Countryman

Fredericka and Howard StevensonPatty and David Straus §Charles M. Sullivan and Susan MaycockMaryann ThompsonSamuel Thompson and Anne BunnMary Tiseo and George PillsburyElizabeth Van BurenAndrew VerardoLilla WaltchSusan and Don WareHugh L. WarrenDalena WrightJ. YuLaura Zimmerman and Joe Shay

Under $250Anonymous Donor (22)Cora Abel and John BusterElizabeth Adams and Clifford LasserGretchen Adams and Robert Hayes

Maureen AhernRobin Alt and Peter WohlauerSarah AlvordPeter Ambler and Lindsay MillerKumkum AminGodfrey and Janet AmphlettEliza and Michael AndersonElissa AronsJanet and Bernard AserkoffJeannette and Charles AtkinsonAnn Lewis AustinJeannette Austin and Richard LazarusDeborah AvantLawrence BacowJames BakalarMaria Balinska and Wojciech SzczerbaPamela BanksMelania BarangeJoel and Betsy Bard §Dinah H. BarlowKim Barnette and Glendon Foley

Lisa BarsottiJeffrey BedoreJune BedoreRichard Belin and Rosanne O’BrienMonica and Michael BennettDonald L. Berman and Meredith MossAlfred B. BigelowWilliam BitopoulosJohn Black and Roberta WhiteLinda Cabot BlackJoanne BlondinLarry Blum and Judy SmithPeggy and Gene BlumenreichSalvatore J. Bonacci, Jr.Rustam and Maggie BoozAnne BoveDorian BowmanSuzanne Boxer and Colin MurphySusan F. BrandLouise H. BrayStephen and Joanna BreyerCarol Brown

Leslie Brunetta and Peter LoftusEdward BuckbeeHarriet Bundy and Richard Hermon-TaylorPhil and Hilary BurlingJanet Burns §Robbie Burnstine and Louis A. RodriquesJill Burrows §Susan H. Bush §Lewis Bushnell and Karen DavisTim and Sarah CabotDaniel Calano and Kate ThompsonJamie CanfieldCathleen CarceoAnne ChakrabortyPatsy CherneyRobert ChewJohn and Ann CobbVirginia ColemanLouise and Loring ConantLindsay Leard Coolidge and Charles A. Coolidge, IIINancy CottFran CroninPaula and Phillip CroninNancy and William CrowleyAllison Crump and David SolomonPhilip CrutchfieldMark L. CurbyBarbara and Richard CurrierDede Danforth and Geoffrey UnderwoodAlice Daniel and Harold JarmonAlice DeLanaPhillip DevlinMary DillNancy and Tom DingmanRuby P. DonohueElsa Dorfman and Harvey

SilverglateMichael DowningJana and Peter DublinMarcia Dworkind and Charles MerzbacherSuzanne DworskyMary and Felton EarlsCheryl EhrenkranzNatalie EisenPeter B. EllisJean EvansJonathan EwingSandra and Toby FairbankIris and Robert FangerMeade FascianoLenore FeigenbaumJan and Joe FerraraSusan FleischmannVirginia and William FooteDonald and Marjorie ForteKate FrankSusan Freedman and Mark ZeidelNatalie Z. FuechselCharles and Constance GagnebinDeborah GalefNancy GalluccioMargaret and Bruce GelinLinda GladdEleanor Glimp §Alison Goldberg and Jon LewisSusan GoldhorJudy Ann GoldmanDorothy and Don GonsonNancy GoodwinGeorge GovermanLinda and William GreenMary Greer §Tim GrovesTheresa Hamacher and Greg SchumakerSuzanne and Easley Hamner

Ned and Margaret HandyFay and David HannonRichard Harriman and Kristen WainwrightSusan Hartnett and Wayne RailaGlenn HeinmillerJohn and Catherine HennJill HeroldNorma HeronDudley R. and Georgene HerschbachCornelia HerzfeldMichael and Monica HigginsJoanne HilfertyAnnette and Paul HodessInge HoffmanDan HoganGerald and Nina HoltonHilary and John HopkinsArch HorstKeith L. and Catherine B. HughesHelen JacksonJean JacksonMarcia W. JacobNancy JacobsonMadeline JacquetElizabeth A. JamesonGish Jen and David O’ConnorKathy JenkinsDolores JohnsonVida and Dean JohnsonStephen H. KaiserZeke KatzLoulie and George KentNancy P. KingWilliam and Sheila KingJoyce KlineJohn and Sharon KochMichele KoronyKaren and John Kosko §Rozann Kraus and Daniel M. Epstein

Joan Krizack and Andre MayerJean Kwo and Javier de LuisRichard Lacoss and Cynthia Oldham §Bonny LambLori and Eric LanderTesair Lauve and John GradySherry and James LeffertSuzette and Robert LevensonSusan M. LewinnekFrankie LiebermanCharles LiebschutzLinda and Peter LindquistLestra Litchfield and Steven AtlasWarren and Jean LittleVirginia Loeb and James SperlingHambleton and Michelle LordMargaret A. LourieSandra G. LovellAnne LowellNoah LutherRobert LymanDavid MaherCharles MaierPolly MalcolmJessica L. MaloneWendy Mariner and Toby NagurneyDavid Marks and Lilian KempJean MartinThomas and Jane Martin §Grace Dane MazurMaria and Micah McCauleyGerald McCue and Ruth FieldsDiane McDermottRuth and Victor McElheny §Hilary and Peter McGheeMargaret C. McMahonMargaret and Brian McMenimen

In January 2018, Brian Walsh and Jennifer Hendrickson were married. Long-time volunteers for the Cambridge Public Library’s Literacy Project, the couple asked their guests to make donations to the Project in lieu of gifts.

By Jeffrey BedoreBy June BedoreBy Jamie CanfieldBy Linda GladdBy Anne GualanoBy Romaine and Mary HornBy Zeke KatzBy Michele KoronyBy Charles LiebschutzBy Jessica MaloneBy Matthew MuskinBy Robyn SanchezBy Sara SegallBy Amer TadmoriBy Rebecca VanpeltBy John Walsh

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Priscilla McMillanSusan Mead §Laura MillerLauren MillerAnnie MockDan MonahanJoseph Moore and Annette LaMondScott Moriearty and Yolanda KodrzyckiJohn and Lucia MuddClaire Muhm and Rory O’ConnorJeremy and Lucy Murray-BrownMatthew MuskinZuzana Nagy §Jean and David NathanVirginia NewesMuriel and Scott NicholsDavid R. Oran and Silvia ArromJohn O’ReganBeatrice M. OakleyPete and Pamela OldhamJacqueline Olds and Richard SchwartzElinor and Neil OlkenMartha and David Osler §Leslie and Joan OttingerBirch PavelskyAmanda Peters and David EmersonCeleste Peterson and Johan PaulssonBarbara D. Petery §Jeanne PetropoulosR.L. Philbrick, Jr. and Marion SeverynseLaurence Pierce and Maureen O’SullivanMalcolm Pittman and Ellen MayerMichael PlummerVirginia Popper and

Greg Morgan §Adam Pool and Kristina GjerdeMary Pat and Gervasio PradoCara Presseau and Judith RyanAndrea and David PritchardDaniela PutnamSarah PutnamMiriam ReederMarguerite and Mark ReynoldsAvery Rimer and Richard WeissbourdRobert RiordanArnold RobbinsGabriela and Bob RomanowEmily Romney and George HeinMary RupertRobyn SanchezJudith Opert Sandler and James Sandler §Cosmo J. SantulloDoris and Simon ScheffRobert SchiffmanRobert SedgwickMary Ann SerraSilvia and Joel ShapiroMichael Shinagel and Marjorie NorthJulie SilbermanJane S. SillmanMargaret and Tom SimonsJill Slosburg-AckermanAnne and Edward SmithLisa and Murray SmithJo and Mike Solet §Peter SquiresMary Alice StantonBarbara and Toby SteinNan Stein §Phyllis R. SteinAlex Steinbergh and Jeanne

SCRIBE SOCIETYThe Foundation is deeply grateful to the members of our Scribe Society who choose to leave a generous legacy gift to benefit the Cambridge Public Library. Their generosity will provide essential support for generations of library patrons to come.

If you would like to become a member of the Library’s Scribe Society, or receive recognition for your legacy gift to the Library, please contact the Foundation at 857-235-9278 or email info@cplfound.org.

TRIBUTE GIFTSIn honor of Maria Balestrieri

By Andy Goldberg and Suzi Wojdyslawski

In honor of Molly and Anna Brenner

By Sarah Alvord

In memory of Professor Robert S. Cohen

By Gerald and Nina Holton

In honor of Mark L. CurbyBy Birch Pavelsky

In memory of Hellen Milroy Davie

By Catherine Mannick

In honor of Donna DavisBy Anonymous Donor

In honor of Anna Maria Clocchiatti Doria

By Alessandro Doria and Chiara Gerhardinger

In honor of Torrance Dunbar

By Susan Goldhor

In honor of Connor EpsteinKraus

By Rozann Kraus and Daniel Epstein

In honor of Kate FlaimBy Phillip Devlin

In memory of Nancy Goodwin

By Robert Lyman

In honor of Shira GubbBy Maria and Micah McCauley

In honor of Katie LappBy Lawrence Bacow

By Barbara and Art PowellBy Fredericka and Howard Stevenson

In honor of the Library Staff

By Susan Hartnett

In honor of Leah Nathanson

By Anna and Larry Nathanson

In honor of Shippen PageBy Anonymous DonorBy Donna DavisBy Barbara and Art Powell

In memory of Suzanne Pearce

By Dorothy and Don Gonson

In memory of Julia PhelpsBy Susan Napier

In honor of Kathleen E. Plummer

By Michael Plummer

In honor of Debbie PorterBy Anonymous Donor

In memory of Mary and Manuel Rogers, Sr.

By Manuel Rogers, Jr.

In memory of Paula Forman Schiffman

By Robert Schiffman

In honor of Joan ShawBy David Marks and Lilian Kemp

In honor of Claire SilversBy Wynn Lee

In memory of John J. Sullivan

By Anonymous Donor

Anonymous Donor (2)Janet AxelrodEd BeloveDonna DavisTunie HamlenSusan Hartnett and Wayne Raila

Shippen Page and Anne St. GoarPatricia PayneBarbara PeteryPat PrattBetsy RudnickChristine J. Spadafor

Members of the Scribe Society at the 2019 Spring Appreciation Luncheon

BedellCarole SternJim and Sue StockardDonna Stone and Foster HinshawRobert B. Straus §Robert SpurrKara Swanson and Washington Taylor, IVAmer TadmoriTee Taggart and Jack TurnerPatrick TaiJudy and John ThomsonNatashia TidwellCharlotte R. TroubhSandra B. UyterhoevenRebecca VanpeltJanaki VaradhanRenata von TscharnerJudith Wechsler

David WegmanKaren Weintraub and Mike KuchtaOren Weisberg and Tamara CharmMurray Wheeler, Jr.Sharon and David WhiteEllen and Matthew WidmerMary WilkesJulie and Thomas WilsonJohn G. WoffordAlice and Robert WolfToni Wolfman §Betty and Gil WolskyCarolyn Woollen-Tucker §Marjory WunschAnn and Mead WymanRichard and Sally ZeckhauserCarolyn Zern

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BOARD OF DIRECTORSShippen L. Page, PresidentDavid Sandberg, SecretaryKatie Lapp, Treasurer

Ed BeloveJudy BrightJill BurrowsKay CalvertCathy ChuteAmy DominiKate FlaimSusan FlanneryLauren HolleranDebbie PorterBetsy RudnickStan Twarog

Janet Axelrod, ex officioMaria McCauley, ex officioDonna Davis, emerita

STAFFKatie Welch Executive DirectorMaddie Doctor Development Associate

DESIGN: BRIAN THOMAS

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