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strengthen southwesternWyoming communities. Your donation will

support programs that deliver measurable, lasting results. 

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Sponsorship Opportunities

Sponsorhsip opportunities are availble for all events. We would also be

happy to work with you to meet your business or philanthropic objectives,

contact us to meet with you to customize a package and develop new and  

innovative partnerships. 

Endowment Fund

Through the United Way Endowment Fund you can support United Way's

mission- today and in the future. The principal of your investment will be

maintained while the income will help advance the Agenda for Change.

As our community changes your gift of any size to the Endowment will help 

create  the most effective solutions. 

Your annual gift is important to our community. By endowing it you can

continue to improve lives and strengthen southwest Wyoming for generations

to come. The Endowment is your opportunity to create a legacy of giving.  

There are many ways to give to the Endowment Fund and many of them

can provide tax relief. Read more. 

Memorial Gifts

Making a gift in memory of your loved one is another valuable way to benefit  

our community-now and for generations to come. Even at the most sorrowful

times in our own lives, making a memorial gift can greatly impact the lives of others. 

Simply by stating "In lieu of flowers, the family suggests making a donation to

United Way of  Southwest Wyoming," you choose to make a lasting tribute to

your family member or friend. Memorial gifts are a way for us to honor our

loved ones and bring hope in a time of sorrow. 

Dolly Parton Imagination Library Foundation

In 1996, Dolly Parton launched an exciting new effort to benefit the children of her home county in east Tennessee. Dolly wanted to foster a love of reading among her county’s preschool children and their families. She wanted children to be excited about books and to feel the magic that books can create. Moreover, she could insure that every child would have books, regardless of their family’s income.

So she decided to mail a brand new, age appropriate book each month to every child under 5 in Sevier County. With the arrival of every child’s first book, the classic The Little Engine That Could ™, every child could now experience the joy of finding their very own book in their mail box. These moments continue each month until the child turns 5—and in their very last month in the program they receive Look Out Kindergarten Here I Come.

Needless to say the experience has been a smashing success. So much so that many other communities clamored to provide the Imagination Library to their children. Dolly thought long and hard about it and decided her Foundation should develop a way for other communities to participate. The Foundation asked a blue ribbon panel of experts to select just the right books and secured Penguin Group USA to be the exclusive publisher for the Imagination Library. Moreover a database was built to keep track of the information.

Consequently, in March of 2000 she stood at the podium of The National Press Club in Washington, D.C. and revealed the plan for other communities to provide the Imagination Library to their children. And as only Dolly can say it, she wanted to “put her money where her mouth is – and with such a big mouth that’s a pretty large sum of money” and provide the books herself to the children of Branson, Missouri and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina – communities where her businesses now operate. If other leaders in their communities were willing to do the same, well something big might just happen.

You know what? It did!!

Here’s how it works:

A community must make the program accessible to all preschool children in their area. The community pays for the books and mailing, promotes the program, registers the children, and enters the information into the database.

From there The Dollywood Foundation takes over and manages the system to deliver the books to the home. You can find out more of the operational details on other pages in this website – so what are you waiting for! Hundreds of communities are providing books to hundreds of thousands of children.  To donate click here.