RBC has announced a donation of 50 thousand dollars to the Dollywood Foundation of Canada to add a family literacy initiative to its signature program Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. The Imagination Library provides a new age appropriate book each month to every preschool student enrolled in the program.  Currently the Foundation has secured financial support to provide the Imagination Library to all of the children in 61 of the 63 First Nation Communities in Manitoba.  Partners include RBC, Frontier School Division, Manitoba First Nation Education Resource Center, Manitoba Community Services, Aseneskak Casino and the Provincial Government.

The RBC grant provides funding to provide family literacy training through Bookmates Incorporated in several communities and a broad public awareness campaign to encourage families to read daily to their children.