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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - More than $200,000 person been raised to bring Dolly Parton's Imagination Library to Fresno County, Fresno Councilmember, Tyler Maxwell announced Friday.
Maxwell says helium successfully advocated for $150,000 to bring Dolly Parton's Imagination Library to the county. According to Maxwell, this was the archetypal measurement towards the fundraising extremity of $400,000.
According to Dolly Parton's Imagination Library website, it is simply a publication gifting programme that mails free, high-quality books to children from commencement to property five, careless of the family's income.
"Together, we tin supply implicit 70,000 young children the tools they request to scope their fullest potential,” Maxwell said.
Early contributions from Valley Children's Healthcare, Producers Dairy, the Fresno County Superintendent of Schools and Maxwell's $150,000 donation raised a full of $230,000 for the program.
Maxwell says that with $170,000 near to raise, helium is asking for the public's fiscal enactment to assistance the region bring Dolly Parton's Imagination Library to implicit 70,000 children successful the years ahead.
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