Lifeline is Lake & Geauga Counties’ Community Action Agency

Community Action Agencies are nonprofit private and public organizations established to serve local community needs. For decades, we have helped hard-working Americans improve their own lives. Today, Lifeline, Inc. continues to serve its original purpose – helping aspirational working families become self-sufficient.

The Lake County Imagination Library

Launched in 2020, Lifeline’s Lake County Imagination Library is a local program partner of the Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library of Ohio. To improve Kindergarten readiness, instill a love of learning, and bolster literacy rates, the program mails free, high-quality books to children from birth until they turn five, no matter their family’s income.

Research has shown that children with 25 books in their homes complete an average of two additional years of schooling compared to their peers without books in their homes. Our goal is that every kindergartener begins school with 60 books in their home. As of September 2026, books are mailed to over 7,500 Lake County children.

We kindly ask for your support in continuing to offer this program to Lake County's littlest learners.

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