OGDENSBURG — The Ogdensburg Public Library has been awarded a $10,000 challenge grant from the Northern New York Community Foundation to help build the library’s permanent endowment. 

The library’s campaign, “Building Partnerships and Investing in Our Future,” is now under way to strengthen this resource at the Community Foundation. All gifts to the campaign will be matched, dollar-for-dollar, up to $10,000.

“This is a wonderful opportunity for library benefactors to double the impact of their donations to our fund,” Library Executive Director Penny Kerfien said. “Our established endowment gives donors an opportunity to share in the library’s vision and lets a donor see how quickly pooled gifts can grow.”

Volunteers from the library’s Board of Trustees and Friends of the Ogdensburg Public Library will be reaching out to the community in coming months to encourage support for this generous matching opportunity.

A successful endowment campaign will help the library meet its vision to connect people with library programs and services. As a permanent fund, the endowment will also help the library complete upgrades and much-needed improvements to its building infrastructure into the future.

Gifts to the library’s endowment campaign may be made to the Northern New York Community Foundation, ATTN: Ogdensburg Public Library Endowment Fund, 131 Washington St., Watertown, NY 13601, or through secure online giving at nnycf.org/giving.

The library joins an extensive number of nonprofits — more than 50 in St. Lawrence County alone — that partner with the Community Foundation and benefit from the Foundation’s longstanding investment expertise.