Donate to the Library

The Library appreciates montetary donations of any size! Whether it’s spare change in our donation box or a sizable check. We will put it to use!

Donations can be specifically given to be used for…

1. Where they are most needed, determined by library staff.

2. Materials Donation (Books, CDs, DVDs, etc)

3  Furnishings and Equipment (furniture, toys, etc.)

4. Technology (Computers, scanners, printers, maintenance, etc.)

Honorarium gifts are suitable for funerals, graduations, weddings, birthdays, and any other gift-giving event.

Donations in memory of a family member, friend, or other loved one, are an amazing remembrance gift that will aid the community for many years to come. These gifts can be in the form of monetary donations to the library used for specific materials, or put toward purchase of larger items such as furniture, special collections, etc.

We offer Honorarium cards, free of charge, with your donation at the library.

For more information, contact the Cadott Community Library at cadottpl@cadottlibrary.org or (715) 289-4950. Checks should be made payable to the Friends of the Cadott Community Library OR the Cadott Library Board.

The George and Alice Miller Trust has been supporting the library since 1963! It was dissolved in 2019 for better management and in 2020, the Trust was officially turned over to the Chippewa Foundaton to become the George and Alice Miller Endowment. The foundation is a public charity that serves the Chippewa Valley.

Gifts can be made to the endowment at any time or written into advanced directives. For more information about how to make a gift, visit the Foundation’s Website: http://www.yourlegacyforever.org

Join the Friends of the Library!

The need for a strong library is greater than ever. In the past 10 years alone public library usage has increased by 25% nationwide! With the increase in usage and attendence, demad for services and resources offered by the library increases too. 

The Friends make it possible to increase our capacity to serve but we couldn’t do it without your continued support. 

Joining the Friends is easy! Vist their page for more information, or stop into the library to pick up one of their brochures. The Friends members will be absolutely vital in our future plans for getting our new building!

It can be very confusing to know where and how your donations are best utilized. When in doubt: donate to the Friends of the Library! All contributions are tax deductible. Here are some general guidelines for where your donations should be directed and how they’re used:

The Friends:

• General Purchasing Use
• Programing & Event Funding
• Non-Specific Material Purchases
• Summer Reading Program Aid
• Friends generally pay for single-time events and items, with exceptions of Director suggested materials purchasing.

The Endowment

• Long-Term Gift. For as long as the Endowment exists, your gift will continue to be invested and earning.
• Purely monetary
• Funds recieved from the Endowment will generally go toward events, equipment, and materials.

The Building Fund

• Checks made payable to the Village of Cadott. We suggest putting “Library Building” into the Memo field.
• Can be given to a librarian OR dropped at the Village Hall.
• Building Funds are just that: specifically and only used toward the expenses of our new building. We cannot use those funds toward any other needs.
• At the end of our grant period, all remaining building fund donations will likely be reverted to the George & Alice Miller Endowment for continual growth.

Per Memorials: We suggest that memorial funds now be made in donation to the Friends of the Library. This is to ensure that those funds are spent specifically on memorial funds and not potentially underspent and reverted back to the village general fund at the end of the fiscal year. Our same stipulations laid out in our brochure apply and our director takes care of the purchasing.