We’ve Merged!

 

The Friends of the Port Townsend Library and the Port Townsend Public Library Foundation became a single charitable organization—the Port Townsend Library Friends and Foundation—as of January 1, 2024, when our separate but similar missions became one.

          The Friends and the Foundation unified to support the library and community with more books, programs, materials, and projects than each could ever do separately. After a year of exploration, the two boards voted at their respective November 2023 meetings to merge into one nonprofit, the Port Townsend Library Friends and Foundation.

          Under the merger agreement filed with the Washington Secretary of State, all responsibilities of the two organizations, including stewardship of donated funds (unrestricted and restricted), will continue uninterrupted under a single board of directors.

          For everyday business and our website presence, our shortened trade name remains Friends of the Port Townsend Library, the name familiar to many in the community and under which the Friends has operated since 1978. An alternative trade name, Port Townsend Public Library Foundation, will be retained for receiving all donations that specify the Foundation.

          Here’s to the future of the Port Townsend Public Library! 

 

Deb Vanderbilt
President, Friends of the Port Townsend Library

 

John Capps
President, Port Townsend Public Library Foundation