Prince George's County Memorial Library System Foundation

Pull up fund commons- with support from the pull up fund commons grant, pgcmls Foundation completed design and preconstruction work for the five new commons labs at beltsville, bladensburg, fairmont heights, largo kettering, and oxon hill branch libraries. The grant supported a parttime staff member, commons program associate, and peer mentor interns who supported commons program pilots at branches and online. The grant also supported program supplies and collections resources pertaining to the themes of the commons: career services, small business/entrepreneurship, social justice education, creative production, and music and media production. The grant also supported five weeklong social justice camps for teenagers. In fy 23 157,037 was spent on the commons projects, primarily on the real lab via the fairmount heights branch.

The pgcmls Foundation supported establishing a new outreach partnership with university of Maryland capital region medical center to provide direct access to books from birth registration in the perinatal ward. Books from birth is a partnership with the dolly parton imagination Library that provides a free book to children each month in the mail up to their fifth birthday. It is Prince George's County's primary early literacy initiative. Books from birth registration bundles are provided to all families who register for books from birth prior to out-processing from giving birth. The bundles include a starter book, age-appropriate toy parents can use to support early literacy education, and instructional materials about the teaching newborns literacy skills. This outreach initiative has resulted in a significant increase in books from birth registrations, which now exceed 14,000 (up from approximately 13,000 at the point of starting this outreach initiative). Pgcmls Foundation is also supporting part of the overall books from birth program costs, approximately 10% of the overall program implementation cost. In june of 2023 there were 14,173 participants.

Branch programming: 128,236 was spent on programming activities associates with projects that will be housed at the dream lab, life lab, social equity commons, foundry and e-studio.

Local impact, individual giving, pgcmls Foundation store, digital collections.