The Mandel Public Library offers life-changing programs, services, and resources to children, teens, and adults in our community, all free of charge thanks to the financial support provided by the West Palm Beach Library Foundation.
When you support the Foundation, you make our community a better place to live, work, and play! Here’s how you can help.
Begun as a tiny reading room in 1895, the Mandel Public Library of West Palm Beach has grown and evolved into a bustling, digital-era center serving citizens of all ages and interests with books, performances, classes, research, entertainment, technology, music and more. Public funds simply can’t cover it all. So, in 2000, our founders created the West Palm Beach Library Foundation to support the library’s continued success.
1895 as the West Palm Beach Reading Room in the Congregational Church at the corner of Datura and Olive Streets.
The City’s first permanent library was an artistic Spanish style building facing the Intracoastal Waterway.
In the 1960’s, a new City library designed by architect Norman Robson was dedicated and opened with much flourish and public comment over its modern, colorful, exterior frieze panels.
In 2009, the library moved from the waterfront to its present facility at City Center in downtown West Palm Beach, and in 2012, the Mandel Foundation awarded a $5 million grant to the West Palm Beach Library Foundation for the enhancement of library programs and services.
Help Mandel Public Library of West Palm Beach reach our goal of raising $25,000 for 2023 Summer Learning Programs
Your corporate investment changes lives. Members of the Corporate Council make possible the vital programs, services, and resources of the Mandel Public Library funded by the West Palm Beach Library Foundation. Your leadership and support make our...
The West Palm Beach Library Foundation’s Food For Thought Gala is our premier annual gathering and fundraiser.
The West Palm Beach Library Foundation is committed to creating an inspired community where children excel and adults thrive. As a member of the Foundation’s Giving Society, you are among a distinguished group of leaders who invest in our mission...
Help Mandel Public Library of West Palm Beach reach our goal of raising $150,000 for Elementary and Teen Homework Centers.
Enjoy the satisfaction of making a lasting contribution to the Mandel Public Library of West Palm Beach through one of our Legacy opportunities. A Legacy donation ensures that you, your family or your company will be recognized in the Library in...
The West Palm Beach Library Foundation’s has many permanent naming opportunities
There are other ways to give the Mandel Public Library of West Palm Beach.
Dear Foundation Friends, We're extremely excited to announce that two members of our Board of Directors, Kim Bepler and Ana Paladino, will co-chair the 2022 Food for Thought gala, our annual fundraising event that provides essential support to the ...