Imagination Library of Grant County, Inc.

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Address:

PO Box 513
Silver City, NM 88062

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Phone Number:

office@imaginationlibrarygc.org

575-519-4464

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Our program delivers free, age-appropriate, high quality books to the homes of New Mexico's preschool children, from birth until their fifth birthday. We encourage parents to read, sing, talk and play with their children, thus giving children the tools to enter Kindergarten ready to learn and increasing the likelihood they will experience success in school and beyond while strengthening family bonds. Currently we serve 1,200 (80%) of the eligible children in Grant County. Further, 2,061 children have reached their fifth birthday and graduated, and an additional 600 have moved from the area and taken their libraries with them. Over 14,000 children in the state are enrolled in this program and receive a free book, addressed to the child, each month.

The Imagination Library is one of approximately 1,800 affiliates of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. Over 100 million books have been distributed since Dolly started the program over 20 years ago with over 1,000,000 books sent each month. We established our local affiliate in December of 2010. We have facilitated the mailing of over 100,000 books to Grant County babies, toddlers and preschoolers. We provide a proactive, educationally sound way for caregivers to engage with young children. The only requirements are that the child is under the age of 5, resides in the affiliate's territory and has a parent or guardian who promises to read aloud. Our goal is to make this program available to all preschool children in New Mexico. This proactive approach can do much to eliminate the need to retain third grade students because of poor reading proficiency scores. Further, we are the organization that has been chosen by the CYFD to address the issue of early literacy. Our annual parent surveys and research studies confirm we are making a difference.

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