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It’s on us to let families know what we do, so we’ve partnered with several trusted local organizations, including the two largest pediatrics practices in Rochester, as well as community resources like the Vineyard Community Farm and the CONEA Neighborhood Association. If you’d like to partner with us, please reach out! Raising the funds. Each local affiliate is responsible for approximately $2.35 per book— or approximately $28 per child per year — which covers both the wholesale cost of the book and the cost of shipping directly to the child’s doorstep. 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By enrolling children at birth, the Imagination Library provides powerful tools to families to take full advantage of their child’s most potent developmental stages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61258e713fbdc67537f43760/1630490178393-UTWIIH8OYBATCDGB54HA/Heckman+Equation.jpg Kindergarten Readiness There’s no better investment than a developing brain. Nobel Laureate John Heckman’s work has decisively demonstrated that the return on public investment is greatest at the earliest stages of life—years before a child even sets foot in kindergarten. The Imagination Library reaches families from birth onward, one of the few educational resources available to caretakers in the first years of life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61258e713fbdc67537f43760/e60b8ad2-2f53-4e7a-95d0-b2edb398c5f3/Urban+Institute+graph.png Kindergarten Readiness - Regain a Lost Opportunity. In spite of decades of research showing that the earliest years provide the most important opportunity to educate our children, we provide essentially no education funding at the national or state level for children from birth through age two—just 3% of the total per capita allocation for school-age children, per the Urban Institute. And after that, children ages 3-5 get just half of what their school-age peers receive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61258e713fbdc67537f43760/1631224750313-67RWY6B6TXJEE80JZ9YV/stanford+study+language+disparities.jpeg Kindergarten Readiness - Beat inequality to the punch. Data from Stanford demonstrate that by two years of age, wealthier children’s vocabulary size is 50% larger than their peers from lower socioeconomic standing, and a six-month gap has emerged in language processing speed. 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