Columbiana County Imagination Library

10/12/2026

🙌📚Ohio Department of Education announced on September 15 that students are making significant gains in literacy, with statewide English language arts proficiency reaching 62.2%.

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, Lt. Governor Jim Tressel, and Ohio Department of Education and Workforce (DEW) Director Stephen D. Dackin today announced the release of the 2026 Ohio School Report Cards. The results show Ohio students are making significant gains in literacy, with statewide English langu...

10/02/2026

Thank you to everyone who continues to generously give. ❤️💙

The Brightside Project
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💗📚 THE GIVING DIDN’T STOP ON 9/25! 📚💗

Give Like Dolly Day may have passed, but you’re still giving like Dolly! ❤️

Since September 25, more generous people have continued to contribute to our 925 Gifts of $9.25 challenge, bringing us to an incredible:

✨ 495 GIFTS
📚 $4,578.75 RAISED!

Every gift helps us continue Dolly’s beautiful legacy by putting books directly into the hands and homes of the 3,068 children currently enrolled in the Imagination Library of Columbiana County.

And we’re keeping the challenge going! 💕 We may have celebrated on 9/25, but there’s no expiration date on helping a child fall in love with reading.

Can we keep filling those squares and make it all the way to 925?

Give $9.25 >>> or fill a few squares online: ️ www.brightsideprojectohio.org/imaginationlibrary

To everyone who has given, shared and helped carry Dolly’s dream forward: THANK YOU. Every book matters. Every child matters. And every $9.25 gets us a little closer. 📚❤️

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09/26/2026

We've collected 442 gifts of $9.25 so far!

It's not too late to give to honor Dolly's life and legacy by helping us continue getting books into the hands of our local children.

Give online at www.brightsideprojectohio.org/imaginationlibrary

The Brightside Project


https://www.wfmj.com/news/local-news/valley-dolly-parton-day-celebrations-benefit-imagination-library/article_2f8884ea-f134-4b00-a5cc-4103ccfdb8d5.html

YOUNGSTOWN - It’s “Dolly Parton Day” in Ohio, and the occasion is being used to help one of the late entertainer’s well-known philanthropic efforts.

09/25/2026

272 GIFTS AND COUNTING... ❤️✨️

🌟📚 TODAY’S THE DAY! IT’S 9/25! 📚🌟

We can’t think of a better day to and honor Dolly Parton's incredible legacy by supporting the Columbiana County Imagination Library! ❤️

So after you tumble out of bed, stumble to the kitchen, pour yourself a cup of ambition… ☕️ it’s time to GIVE LIKE DOLLY! 🥰

Our BIG goal today:

❤️ 925 gifts
📚 $9.25 each
🌟 ONE incredible community

If we fill all 925 squares, we’ll raise enough to fund the Columbiana County Imagination Library for approximately **2½ MONTHS**, mailing FREE books to more than 3,000 local children each month!

Now THAT is a GREAT way to spend your 9 TWO 5. 😉

Every $9.25 fills another square.
$18.50 fills TWO.
$92.50 fills TEN.
$925 fills ONE HUNDRED! 🤯

Can Columbiana County fill all 925 squares TODAY?!

☀️ Give here: www.brightsideprojectohio.org/imaginationlibrary

Because today we're not just working 9 to 5...

We're GIVING 9.25 to help local children DREAM BIG. 💕📖

Let’s do this, Columbiana County!

We’ll be posting LIVE progress updates in our Facebook Story throughout the day as those squares start filling up! ❤️❤️❤️

**A HUGE THANK YOU TO OUR BINGO CROWD LAST NIGHT FOR GIVING $501.50, FILLING 54 SQUARES** 🙌❤️

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🌟📚 TODAY’S THE DAY! IT’S 9/25! 📚🌟

September 25 >>> 9-25 >>> 9 TWO 5 >>> 9 TO 5. 😉

And we can’t think of a better day to and honor Dolly Parton's incredible legacy by supporting the Columbiana County Imagination Library! ❤️

So after you tumble out of bed, stumble to the kitchen, pour yourself a cup of ambition… ☕️ it’s time to come alive and GIVE LIKE DOLLY! 🥰

Our BIG goal today:

❤️ 925 gifts
📚 $9.25 each
🌟 ONE incredible community

If we fill all 925 squares, we’ll raise enough to fund the Columbiana County Imagination Library for approximately **2½ MONTHS**, mailing FREE books to more than 3,000 local children each month!

Now THAT is a GREAT way to spend your 9 TWO 5. 😉

Every $9.25 fills another square.
$18.50 fills TWO.
$92.50 fills TEN.
$925 fills ONE HUNDRED! 🤯

Can Columbiana County fill all 925 squares TODAY?!

☀️ Give here: www.brightsideprojectohio.org/imaginationlibrary

Because today we're not just working 9 to 5...

We're GIVING 9.25 to help local children DREAM BIG. 💕📖

Let’s do this, Columbiana County!

We’ll be posting LIVE progress updates in our Facebook Story throughout the day as those squares start filling up! ❤️❤️❤️

**A HUGE THANK YOU TO OUR BINGO CROWD LAST NIGHT FOR GIVING $501.50, FILLING 54 SQUARES** 🙌❤️

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09/22/2026

💕📚 168 GIFTS & COUNTING! 📚💕

Columbiana County, you are already showing up BIG for Give Like Dolly Day!

So far, you’ve given the equivalent of 168 gifts of $9.25 toward our goal of 925! ❤️

And here’s what makes that number even more incredible...
The amount raised so far is enough to send 1,110 local children their FREE Imagination Library book NEXT MONTH! ✨

There are currently 3,068 children enrolled in Dolly Parton's Imagination Library right here in Columbiana County, and every single month, our community helps make getting books into those little hands possible.

Our challenge for September 25 (9-25) is:
❤️ 925 gifts
📚 $9.25 each

✨ One community carrying Dolly Parton's legacy forward
Every $9.25 fills another square on our tracker, and look at those first 168 squares already filled!

Can Columbiana County fill all 925?

Give $9.25 today ➡️ www.brightsideprojectohio.org/imaginationlibrary

Or mail your contribution to The Brightside Project, PO BOX 314, Salem OH 44460, please note "Give Like Dolly" in the memo line.

And SHARE our challenge! Let’s see just how many little mailboxes we can fill with books. 💌📚

The Brightside Project
Imagination Library of Ohio

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09/17/2026

September 25 — 9 two five — will be recognized as Dolly Parton Day in Ohio! ✨

You could honor the incredible Dolly by
📗Reading several Dolly Parton's Imagination Library books with your little one at home, outside at a Storybook Trail... anywhere!

🫶Giving the gift of reading by donating $9.25 to cover the local cost of the program

Tell us in the comments... how do you plan to celebrate Dolly Day?

04/21/2026