LITERACY COUNCIL RECEIVES IMAGINATION LIBRARY GRANT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
EASTERN SHORE LITERACY COUNCIL
CONTACT: Rose Rulon, Executive Director, 757-789-1795 
[email protected]
January 24, 2024

LITERACY COUNCIL RECEIVES IMAGINATION LIBRARY GRANT
The Eastern Shore Literacy Council announces a $5,000 grant award from The National Home Library Foundation to support the local Dolly Parton Imagination Library book gifting initiative. This grant award will support the distribution of books each month to registered age-eligible children.  The NHLF supported the distribution of more than 4,800 books to local children in 2023.  More than 1,100 children have received 15,000 books since the Fall of 2021, when the Eastern Shore Literacy Council joined with the Dollywood Foundation to bring Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library to children in Accomack and Northampton counties.    
The National Home Library Foundation, a private foundation founded in 1932, supports initiatives that develop, sustain and encourage literacy programs serving children, teens or adults in need of reading and learning resources, with a goal of combating literacy and/or encouraging an interest in reading and the literary arts for all ages.  
Dolly started the Imagination Library in 1995 for children in her home county.  Today her program reaches five countries and distributes more than 2 million books each month through community partners in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and the Republic of Ireland.
Find out more about the Dolly Parton Imagination Library or register a child at www.imaginationlibrary.com, the Eastern Shore Literacy Council at www.shoreliteracy.org  or by calling 757-789-1761. 

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