Help Us Finish the Dream: Furnish and Landscape Our New Library

Giving Tuesday morning update!

The joy keeps building!

Today is Giving Tuesday, a Global Day of Generosity. Here in Shutesbury, the day brings a chance to support the our efforts to raise money for furniture, equipment and landscaping for the New Shutesbury Library. Today is a day for all of us to come together--investing in our community and supporting our neighbors.

Good news! 49 generous donors have already contributed $10,205, earning us a $10,000 matching gift. We’ve earned more than $20,000 and the day has just begun!

Thank you to each and every donor! Your contributions, small, medium and large, when combined, signify a community of folks who are determined to ensure our new library is the best it can be.

More Good News!

A new team of generous donors has offered a new matching gift!

If we raise another $7,500 in donations by the end of the day, it will be matched!

With this new matching gift offer, we have the potential to raise more than $35,000 today!

All together now!

Dear Friends,

By the time you read this, the foundation of our new library will be visible from Leverett Road! Thanks to your unparalleled devotion and generosity, the dream of a new library building for Shutesbury is about to be realized.

Imagine walking into that beautiful new space next year. What catches your eye? The cozy seating in the reading nook? The oversized chairs and inviting rug in the children’s room? Perhaps the AV equipment in the community room or the convenient self-checkout station.

Now picture yourself stepping outside to find a few Adirondack chairs, where you can relax and enjoy the sight of birds and butterflies fluttering over a meadow of native grasses, surrounded by native plants, trees, and shrubs.

Idyllic, right? Here’s the catch: all these amenities—and more—are up to us to provide. While the grant covers a generous 75% of the building costs, “Furniture, Fixtures, and Equipment” are our responsibility.

So, our work is not quite done. (Imagine walking into an empty building surrounded by a construction site!) We know we’ve asked a lot, and your response has been nothing short of heroic. But we’re reaching out once more to help us finish the job.

Our goal for Giving Tuesday, December 3, is $30,000 to furnish the building and landscape the grounds. And here’s some good news! A group of generous neighbors has already pledged a $10,000 matching gift. That means every donation, up to $10,000 on or before Giving Tuesday, will be matched dollar-for-dollar.

With your help, we can meet our goal! Thank you for staying the course. Together, we can be ready to open our doors next summer!