Imagination Library Gets One Year Reprieve as Washington’s Public Schools Agency to Fund Literacy Program

Imagination Library gets one year reprieve as Washington’s public schools agency to fund literacy program

The state schools superintendent announced last week his agency will fund a program that provides free books to young children locally and statewide for one year, after the Legislature cut the funding because of Washington’s budget deficit. Read more...

Walmart and CenterPoint Energy fund Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library expansion in South Central Indiana

United Way of South Central Indiana has received two new grants to support the growth of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, an early literacy program providing free books to children from birth to age five. A $10,000 grant from the CenterPoint Energy Foundation and a $500 Spark Good Local Grant from Walmart will allow more children across Greene, Lawrence, Orange, and Owen counties to receive monthly, high-quality books directly to their homes.…