Donations Given To Fund Stoughton Library's Future

STOUGHTON, MA — Several businesses, Stoughton residents, and other philanthropists donated money to be used for future innovation and technologies at the Stoughton Public Library.

Support Our Library Association (SOLA) is the nonprofit (501c3) collecting these donations in exchange for the philanthropists being able to name a room or work station at the new library.

Last Thursday, Harbor One Bank CEO James Blake and Vice President of Community Relations Jennifer White visited the construction site of the new library. Blake and White presented a $25,000 check to SOLA to name the multicultural learning center at the library.

SOLA Chair Sharon Fradkin is happy to see the donations starting to pour. She said, “This town is wonderful and the associations we have been making virtually every day as we work to make the Library of Tomorrow a reality, have been heartwarming and truly thrilling. This is one of a number of other donations made in the last few weeks."

Those other donations include:

• Stoughton residents Dori and Mel Frankel donated $10,000 to name a quiet study room.
• Mateo Cummings donated $7,500 to name a porch bench after her mother Dolores Cummings (SOLA's current president).
• A Stoughton family originally from Mubai, India donated $30,000 to name the children's story and craft room.

Other donations have been received or promised. SOLA will continue to announce those donations as they come in.

For more information about or to donate, call 781-856-5245 or email solastoughton@gmail.com.