Your Donation Matters!

In 2017, the Friends & Foundation of the Rochester Public Library worked with a Rochester couple to create a new permanent fund aligned with the values of the Rochester Public Library and the Greater Rochester community: the Equality Fund for Humanity & Enlightenment.

The Equality Fund for Humanity & Enlightenment is a permanently endowed restricted fund of the Friends & Foundation of the Rochester Public Library. Invested earnings will be used annually to supplement library resources, programs, and materials in pursuit of a world free of discrimination, by promoting education and equality of opportunity for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual (LGBTQIA+) people, especially those who intersect with any or all of the following:

• youth
• impoverished people
• feminists
• people of color
• immigrants
• all members of the public who wish to educate themselves regarding the above people;

with all resources, programs, and materials secular in point of view, and all materials and resources in the sciences or social sciences based on research conducted using the scientific method.

This Fund has been used to enable RPL and MCLS staff to conduct LGTBQIA+ film screenings and events, register as an organization at the regional Pride Parade, and more!

Your tax-deductible donations to the Equality Fund for Humanity & Enlightenment will support the Rochester Public Library by providing supplemental resources, programs, and materials in perpetuity. Your gift will help bring equality and intellectual freedom for all people in our community now and in the future — via a one-time, annual or estate gift.

To give a gift today, complete the Special Projects Donation Form and mail to the Friends & Foundation of the Rochester Public Library, 115 South Avenue, Rochester NY 14604, or contact FFRPL Executive Director at dborgus@ffrpl.org.