Our vision is to create a community where every person has the ability to thrive without social barriers. We work towards this by collaborating with local nonprofits and organizations, providing resources, and organizing initiatives that address critical community needs. Our focus is on empowering individuals and families to lead healthy, successful lives.

   Our Impact Programs

📘 More Than Just Notebooks

• Provides school supplies + hygiene items directly to schools

• Supports teachers (who spend an average of $471/year in MN out of pocket)

• Reduces stress for both teachers and students

• Average school supply cost: $172 per child

• Without support → teacher burnout, shortage, reduced student success

🤝 Community Connect

• Annual one-day event for families in need

• In 2024:

  • 53 organizations participated

  • 960 people served (including families at risk of homelessness)

  • 455 winter jackets + 478 pairs of shoes distributed

• Provides clothing, food, job connections, and essential resources

• Without support → families lose access to critical necessities and stability

📚 Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library (DPIL)

• Free monthly books for children, ages birth–5

• Builds kindergarten readiness, literacy, and love of reading

• So far:

  • 1,290 children enrolled

  • 50,930 books distributed since 2021

• Just $32 provides books for one child for a year

• Without support → kids enter school already behind, lacking access to books

Why Your Support Matters

• 1 in 3 local families struggle to make ends meet

• Inflation and cost of living are rising

• Your donation = immediate, local, life-changing impact

• Every dollar helps stabilize families, support teachers, and give children a brighter future

Meet our Matching Sponsor *

Tove and Adam Lichty

We both love to read; it’s opened many avenues of imagination, and knowledge, and it challenges us to stay curious. Adam is a literacy tutor, too, and he finds great value in his work because reading is a critical building block to all learning; he wants to ensure his students have a fair chance to have a good education and to encourage a love for reading through their lives.

*up to $3000