Lubuto Library Project Sponsors and Partners
The Lubuto Library Project benefits from the generosity of individual, foundation, organizational and corporate partners who embrace our mission of serving the needs of the hard-to-reach street kids, orphans and other vulnerable children of Zambia. Our supporters are integral to our success and we are proud to collaborate and partner with them into the future.
Global Corporate Sponsors
Dow Jones & Company is the Lubuto Project’s major corporate partner, financing the building and stocking of the second Lubuto Library at the Ngwerere School in Lusaka. In addition to over generous underwriting of construction of the library compound, Dow Jones engaged its employees worldwide to donate books to compile a complete library collection, finalized by another generous grant from the Dow Jones Foundation. Lubuto’s relationship with Dow Jones began when Jane Meyers won the Special Libraries Association’s Dow Jones Leadership Award in 2007 and was subsequently strengthened when Clare Hart, who was Dow Jones’ Executive Vice President and President, Dow Jones Media, joined our Advisory Board. Dow Jones has continued to support our work in many big and small ways. Dow Jones and its employees have opened their hearts to Africa’s most vulnerable children and youth through Lubuto Libraries.
International Mailing Solutions very generously cut
the cost of airfreight of our first book collection, in August 2007, nearly in half. Then it sent our
second collection by sea at no cost at all – door-to-door from Washington, DC to the Ngwerere
Library in Lusaka! We are profoundly grateful to Bill Childs and our very generous friends at
IMS for this major contribution. We are also very grateful to our friends Kerry Knight and Bob
Cline at National Geographic Society who asked their shippers, IMS, to support us in this way,
and have handled all of the communications and other logistics with IMS, as well as picking up
and storing our collection until the library was ready for it to be shipped.
Brodart Library Supplies and
Furnishings are old and current friends and supporters of Lubuto, not only supplying materials for processing books for our collections and organizing them on the library shelves, but also by helping us to share our best practices in sustainable international librarianship by sponsoring a Lubuto panel presentation - and Jane Meyers’ travel - at the 2007 American Library Association annual conference. We are proud that Brodart, a venerable institution in the library world, continues to be a key corporate sponsor.
Sustaining Sponsors
Foundation, Professional and Government Partners
Zambian Partners
School and University Partners
Fundraising Partners
Publishers and other Book Donors
Past Supporters
