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    Legacy Library

    Name a bookstand

    One gift builds, places, and stocks a free community bookstand on a block that needs one — with a tribute, in your name or someone you love, shown right on the map.

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    One-time gift

    $600

    Builds, places, and stocks one complete bookstand.

    Add ~$18 so 100% funds books

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    How It Works

    From your gift to books on the block

    Borrowing the clarity of unit economics: one gift, one stand, one neighborhood.

    We build & place it

    A weatherproof recycled-poly bookstand goes up on welcoming community ground — a garden, church, school, or storefront.

    We stock the shelf

    Curated books for the neighborhood fill the stand — picture books, novels, bilingual titles, and more.

    It joins the map — with your name

    Your stand appears on the public map, carrying the tribute you choose, so every neighbor who finds it sees who made it possible.

    • 501(c)(3) public charity

      EIN: 20-4557510
    • Deductible to the extent permitted by law

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