AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN: NEW ALBANY FUNDS LOCAL IMAGINATION LIBRARY

AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN: NEW ALBANY FUNDS LOCAL IMAGINATION LIBRARY

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free, high-quality books to children from birth to age five. The Imagination Library received The Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval and the Best Practices award from the Library of Congress Literacy Awards, as well as a slew of other prestigious acknowledgments, and it is now a world-spanning literacy program for children. Over 1 million books are given to children throughout the world EACH month through this program.

That’s why at today’s New Albany Redevelopment Commission meeting, the board approved $50,000 in American Rescue Plan funding to support the local chapter of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.

“Supporting children’s literacy and helping them become life-long readers is a wonderful mission to support,” stated Mayor Jeff Gahan. “As Dolly Parton has stated, ‘you can never get enough books into the hands of enough kids,’ and we are proud to continue supporting this program at the local level so that our young children and families in New Albany can fall in love with reading.”