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How to Donate
There are two ways you can donate to the Imagination Library.

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2. Mail in your Donation
If you prefer to donate by regular mail, please print our donations form, fill it out and mail it to United Way with your check.

All donations are tax deductible. Your charitable receipt will come to you from the United Way of Tampa Bay.

Susan Lawton
Director of Early
Literacy Initiatives
813.274.0902
Email: slawton@uwtb.org

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

United Way and the Imagination Library Hillsborough County Partnership launched an early literacy initiative to put books in the hands of young children, helping prepare them for kindergarten.

Beginning with “The Little Engine That Could,” children receive an age-appropriate book FREE each month from birth to age five. “Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come” is the final book each child receives as they prepare to enter kindergarten.

Local Partners
Hillsborough County’s Imagination Library program is a joint initiative by the

Children’s Board of Hillsborough County
Early Learning Coalition
Healthy Start Coalition of Hillsborough County
Hillsborough County Head Start/Early Head Start
Hillsborough County Public Schools
Hillsborough County, Public Library Cooperative
United States Postal Services-Tampa
United Way of Tampa Bay.

You can support early childhood literacy
The Tampa Bay community can help support literacy and expose children to books early in life by sponsoring a child. A $30 donation provides a book a month for a year.

Imagination Library History
Dolly Parton began Imagination Library in her home state of Tennessee because she believed that income should not be a restriction for children to have books in their home. The popular initiative has since spread to hundreds of communities. The Dollywood Foundation funds administration costs for the program.