2022 was the second year of the Company’s five-year commitment partnering with the Northeast Ohio nonprofit organization The Literacy Cooperative. The Literacy Cooperative supports reading programs, including Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, for all ages in the local community.

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library gifts monthly books to children from birth to age five through funding made possible by Dolly Parton and local community partners such as The Literacy Cooperative. Globally, the program has donated more than 197 million books to children since the program was founded in 1995.

Through the Imagination Library program, the Company funds 2,500 books annually for children in Ohio’s Cuyahoga County, where our headquarters is located. By supporting the monthly delivery of these specially selected, age-appropriate books, we hope to improve early literacy, inspire a love of reading and bridge education gaps in our community.

This story is featured in the Sherwin-Williams 2022 Sustainability Report.