Partner with Plumerie

Plumerie is a personal library and book-sharing platform used by readers, families, and communities. We’re looking for partners who share our belief that access to books — in every language — is a right, not a privilege.

If your organization works on literacy, immigrant inclusion, youth development, or community building, we’d like to hear from you.

Plumerie is a free tool that helps people organize their book collections, share with family, and lend to friends. It supports 45 languages, works on any device, and requires no app store download.

For communities and organizations, the platform becomes something more: infrastructure for pooling books across members into a shared, searchable lending network. A neighborhood association, a cultural center, or a youth program can turn its members’ scattered personal libraries into a collective resource — without anyone giving up ownership of their books.

We provide the technology. You bring the community.

What this looks like in practice: a community organization working with immigrant families could use Plumerie to help members catalog their books by language, discover what others in the group own, and borrow from each other. A youth literacy program could give participants a tool to build and track their own libraries. A school or cultural center could create a shared collection that supplements its existing resources.

Plumerie is free for individuals (up to 100 books) and free for families (up to 500 books, 5 members). For partnership programs, we’re open to conversations about expanded access, custom onboarding, and dedicated support.

Literacy and reading programs. Organizations working to strengthen literacy — especially among children, youth, and immigrant communities. We’re particularly interested in programs that recognize the connection between access to books in a reader’s strongest language and long-term literacy outcomes.

Immigrant and multilingual community organizations. Cultural associations, settlement services, and community centers serving immigrant and refugee populations. Plumerie’s multilingual support and community lending features are designed for exactly these contexts — helping people find and share books in their language within their local community.

Youth development and inclusion. Foundations and programs focused on preventing social exclusion among children and young people, particularly through culture, leisure, and education. Books are one of the most powerful tools for inclusion, and community book-sharing creates connections across backgrounds.

Schools and educational institutions. International schools, multilingual schools, and institutions serving diverse student populations. Plumerie can supplement school library resources by connecting students and families through shared personal collections.

Libraries with outreach programs. Public or community libraries looking to extend their reach beyond their physical collection — particularly for underserved language communities where institutional foreign-language holdings are limited.

In Finland, research based on PISA results shows that 61% of first-generation immigrant-background youth face literacy challenges that affect their participation in education and working life. Across Europe, the pattern is similar: communities with rich reading traditions in their home languages lose access to books when they move.

The solution isn’t just more library funding — though that helps. It’s also about making the books that already exist in a community visible and shareable. Dozens of families in a single neighborhood may collectively own hundreds of books in languages their local library doesn’t stock. They just don’t know what each other has.

Plumerie makes that visible. Community lending features turn isolated personal libraries into a connected, searchable network. The technology exists. What we need are the community connections to put it to work.