Literacy

YOUR LOCAL IMAGINATION LIBRARY
Your local Imagination Library is powered by supporters like you. You are the driving force behind the 15,000 Imagination Library books that are delivered each month in Rutherford and Cannon counties. As the local sustaining partner of the Imagination Library, the United Way of Rutherford and Cannon Counties works to build a foundation for reading and learning for every child in our community. The Imagination Library is a monthly book gifting program that provides free books to children from birth to age five. 
 
There are currently over 15,000 Imagination Library participants in Rutherford and Cannon counties and more than 35,000 children have graduated from the program locally. 
 

LEARN MORE

Click here to learn more about the impact of the Imagination Library and how the program works. 

 

GIVE

Your local Imagination Library builds a foundation for reading and learning for ALL children from birth to age five in Rutherford and Cannon counties by providing a new, age-appropriate book each month at no cost to the families enrolled. The United Way of Rutherford and Cannon Counties serves as the local sustaining partner of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, in partnership with the Governor's Early Literacy Foundation.

All gifts make a difference. 

$12,000 = 1,000 children for one year

$6,000 = 500 children for one year

$3,000 = 250 children for one year

$1,200= 100 children for one year 

$600 = 50 children for one year

$300 = 25 children for one year

$120 = 10 children for one year