{"id":120493,"date":"2025-08-05T09:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T09:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/120493\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T09:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T09:17:08","slug":"johnson-county-library-launches-campaign-to-keep-free-book-program-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/120493\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson County library launches campaign to keep free book program for children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine Library of Johnson County sends free books to children from birth to age five.<\/p>\n<p>FRANKLIN, Ind. \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wthr.com\/article\/news\/local\/chapters-hope-lawmakers-approve-expanding-imagination-library-around-indiana-literacy-funds-education\/531-73030621-aad9-4a7d-ac15-eb73aff03857\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">The Imagination Library\u00a0<\/a>of Johnson County is launching a fundraising campaign, trying to make up for $1 million in lost state funding.<\/p>\n<p>The program provides free books to kids from birth until they&#8217;re five years old.<\/p>\n<p>The Johnson County Community Foundation found kindergarteners in Franklin Community Schools who were enrolled in the library for at least four-and-a-half years scored higher on literacy tests than the district average.<\/p>\n<p>The foundation doesn&#8217;t want to see those numbers suffer, so they&#8217;re putting $500,000 toward a dollar-for-dollar matching campaign.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"cms__embed-related-story\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wthr.com\/article\/news\/local\/chapters-hope-lawmakers-approve-expanding-imagination-library-around-indiana-literacy-funds-education\/531-73030621-aad9-4a7d-ac15-eb73aff03857\" class=\"cms__embed-related-story__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chapters hope lawmakers approve expanding Imagination Library around Indiana<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The goal is to raise $1 million to permanently fund the Imagination Library of Johnson County.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to help,<a href=\"https:\/\/onecau.se\/imaginationlibrary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">\u00a0you can donate online<\/a> or mail a check to Attn: Imagination Library of Johnson County Johnson County Community Foundation 398 South Main Street, Franklin, IN 46131.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                                    &#13;\n                                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imagine Library of Johnson County sends free books to children from birth to age five. FRANKLIN, Ind. \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":120494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1022,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-120493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114975411621597428","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}