Governor’s Books from Birth Foundation

To support programs and general operations in Middle Tennessee.

Since 2004, Governor’s Early Literacy Foundation (GELF), formerly Governor’s Books from Birth Foundation (GBBF), has supported the Imagination Library program in TN, ensuring all preschool children enrolled in the program receive one book in the mail each month, at no cost to the family and regardless of income.

Governor’s Books from Birth Foundation (GBBF) has supported Tennessee’s Imagination Library program since 2004, ensuring that all Tennessee children, birth to five years old, have access to one high quality age-appropriate book mailed to their home each month at no cost to the family and regardless of income.

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library in Tennessee has been supported and sustained by Governor’s Books from Birth Foundation (GBBF) since 2004, ensuring that all Tennessee children, birth to five years old, have access to receive one age-appropriate book monthly, at no cost to the family and regardless of income.

The Governor’s Books from Birth Foundation (GBBF) supports and sustains Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library program statewide in Tennessee. Since 2004, TN’s Imagination Library has provided one age-appropriate book each month to enrolled children between birth and age five, at no cost to the family and regardless of income.

For eleven years, Tennessee’s Imagination Library has delivered high-quality, age-appropriate books to enrolled children, birth to five, in all 95 counties, at no cost to families and without regard to socio-economic status. The Governor’s Books from Birth Foundation provides a grant to each county covering 50% of its book costs.

For the past decade, Tennessee’s Imagination Library has delivered high-quality, age-appropriate books to enrolled children, ages birth to five in all 95 counties at no cost to families and without regard to socio-economic status. The Governor’s Books from Birth Foundation provides a 50% funding match for book costs statewide.