Capital Area United Way Expanding Area For Imagination Library Book-Gifting Program

Capital Area United Way Expanding Area For Imagination Library Book-Gifting Program

PIERRE — The Capital Area United Way is adding six central South Dakota counties to it’s Imagination Library area. Executive Director Holly Wade says Hyde, Sully, Haakon, Lyman, Dewey and Potter Counties will join Hughes and Stanley Counties in providing more children access to books…

Wade says Imagination Library is the flagship program of country music superstar Dolly Parton’s Dollywood Foundation that has gifted nearly 200-million books to kids across the world…

Wade says research is showing that getting kids reading at young ages is important to their long-term education…

The Capital Area United Way has been involved as an affiliate of Imagination Library since 1996.