WE ADVANCE EARLY LEARNING

More than 50% of local kids in Benton and Franklin Counties enter kindergarten unprepared. Through our Early Learning programs, we are hoping to change that number. 

Kids who read, succeed!

Through our partnership with Lantern, we are able to send curated localized text messages straight to parents phones to help with their child's development. From pregnancy to preteen, Lantern is here to share supportive information from literacy to autism. Because kids don't come with instructions. 

Through our partnership with Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, we are able to send books to local children at no cost to their families. After just 10 books, children in the program were at least 4x more likely to demonstrate stronger emerging literacy skills according to a Global Study of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library (2025).