Consider a tax-deductible gift to your library. Some ways you can contribute to your library are:

  • Donate your time, money and expertise to Bentonville Library.
  • Nominate your library as your community, school, or corporate organization's project for the year.
  • Honor a friend or relatives birthday with a book for the library.
  • Donate a book...or a whole shelf of books!
  • Remember your library in your estate planning.
  • Support the Bentonville Library Foundation.
  • Give to the library through your company's matching program for charitable giving.

Top Five Reasons to Give to the Bentonville Library Foundation:

  1. Offers more than the community expects. Libraries have entered a new era. Large multimedia collections, the latest technology and free public programs provide a place for powerful personal growth. BPL offers our community members the opportunity to explore ideas and cultures - involving them in a broader world.
  2. Provides access to information. Libraries continue to be the basis for a free society with access to information for everyone. Libraries will always be the repositories of information.
  3. Makes our city a better place to live.The Bentonville Public Library is a social and intellectual gathering place for everyone - a vital community center that informs and inspires.
  4. Helps our children and young adults succeed. Through programming and specialized collections, the Bentonville Public Library is committed to helping children and young adults succeed in school and in life.
  5. Our library is enhanced by the Bentonville Library Foundation and its contributors. The Foundation's support plays a key role in the library's success. The result of the generosity of individuals, corporations and foundations can be witnessed on a daily basis. From the mom and toddler enjoying story time, to the college student researching a special assignment, to the entrepreneur developing a business plan, the Bentonville Public Library is many things to many people. Your gifts will ensure that for generations to come the BPL will be powerfully relevant and completely accessible to all members of our community.