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People just like you. People who work in offices, grocery stores and banks. People who donate $10 and people who donate 10 hours. Together, we are stronger than we realize.

15,871

Children prepared for success in kindergarten

6,266

People assisted to increase their income

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The battle station is heavily shielded and carries a firepower greater than half the star fleet. It’s defenses are designed around a direct large-scale assault. A small one-man fighter should be able to penetrate the outer defense. Pardon me for asking, sir, but what good are snub fighters going to be against that? Well, the Empire doesn’t consider a small one-man fighter to be any threat, or they’d have a tighter defense. An analysis of the plans provided by Princess Leia has demonstrated a weakness in the battle station.
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Books are the building blocks

A life-long love for learning starts with a bedtime story

Give a child the biggest boost toward a successful education they will ever get. For $30 a year, you will ensure that one child in our community receives a book a month; the program is for children age birth to five. “Often times the most powerful things are the simple things,” said David Dodson, President of the Dollywood Foundation. Created in 1996, Dolly Parton wanted to send free books to children who might not have books.

You can make a difference:
  • $30 = 1 book a month for a year
  • $150 = 1 book a month from birth to age 5
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Dolly Parton Imagination Library

Community Impact
236,912 Books
Sent to children in the Pikes Peak region since January 2013.
Youth Success

SCHOOL READINESS

Pikes Peak United Way partners with community agencies to help students attain educational success from kindergarten to graduation.

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Providing books to children age 0-5 at no cost to families

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Providing books to children age 0-5 at no cost to families

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Providing books to children age 0-5 at no cost to families

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Providing books to children age 0-5 at no cost to families

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Providing books to children age 0-5 at no cost to families

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Providing books to children age 0-5 at no cost to families

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The Peak Progress (QLI) Report is a community effort to look at and evaluate different components of quality of life in the Pikes Peak Region. This project convenes volunteers, community members, and leaders from across the region (Vision Councils) to gather and evaluate data and create goals (referred to as “priority areas”) in various categories.

This report originated in 2007 after Howard Brooks and Jerry Smith recognized the need for benchmarking information and gathered the necessary community support and resources to publish the first edition. The 2019/2020 report seeks to move the report forward by not only focusing on indicators, but also looking for ways to take these findings and create actionable change and improve the quality of life in the Pikes Peak Region. To do this, we followed the original process of creating benchmarks by comparing the Pikes Peak Region to other regions in order to see how we are doing compared to other places in the United States, as well as looking at data over time.

This report is for anyone from a general citizen to an elected representative. Based on the foundation of community groups, networks, and resources that were assembled to develop it, this highly beneficial tool provides reliable and easy to understand data with the potential and proposed steps for actionable change.  

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