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A Colorado Springs couple is stepping in to keep Imagination Library books coming to local kids

The Daily Colorado Springs teamFrom today’s edition · 1 min read · 3 sources

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If you have a little one in El Paso or Teller County, the free monthly books aren't stopping. After ended its partnership with Dolly Parton's , Geoff and Jessica Mulligan started the all-volunteer Pikes Peak Early Literacy Foundation to take it over.

The Imagination Library has reached over 9,000 local kids

9,000+
children in Teller and El Paso counties get free books
14 years
the program has run in the two counties
$10,000
needed to keep December deliveries going

Sources: KRDO, FOX21 News Colorado

United Way CEO Cami Bremer said other programs are "better poised to take care of the literary pieces." The state still pays half the cost, and the Mulligans are raising the other half.

  • Who gets books: kids ages 0 to 5, every month
  • Already enrolled? You don't need to re-register
  • December deliveries: secured
  • Nonprofit status: the foundation hopes to finish in January
  • Donors wanted: businesses, parents and grandparents

Imagination Library Colorado CEO Jack Tate said on Oct. 30 the program covered half of El Paso County. The nonprofit wants to reach all of it.

Going countywide would take enrollment from 9,000 to an estimated 29,000 kids

Source: KKTV

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Value
Enrolled now9,000
Estimated by summer29,000

Sources: KRDO, FOX21 News Colorado, KKTV

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