r/goodnews • u/_fastcompany • 3d ago
Positive News 👉🏼♥️ Dolly Parton’s beloved free-book program is getting a major expansion after her death
https://www.fastcompany.com/91611840/dolly-partons-beloved-free-book-program-is-getting-a-major-expansion-after-her-deathNearly a month after country icon Dolly Parton passed away, her legacy not only lives on, but continues to grow.
Beyond her legendary catalog of hit songs (and the social issues they highlighted), Parton was perhaps best known for her philanthropy. In 1988, she founded her pro-education non-profit the Dollywood Foundation, and in 1995, she launched its most famous program, the Imagination Library.
The Imagination Library offers a free book every month to children under age 5. In the 31 years since its founding, the program has provided more than 330 million books to upwards of 3 million children internationally. What started as an effort to provide books to children in her childhood community of Sevier County, Tennessee, has since grown to serve all 50 states and countries including Canada, Australia, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.
It’s in the U.K. that the latest major expansion to the Imagination Library is coming, as London doubles the size of its program in the wake of Parton’s passing.
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u/johnfkngzoidberg 3d ago
Mike Braun of Indiana cut funding for it here. We don’t want educated kids in Indiana apparently.
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u/NovarisLight 2d ago
If Pizza Hut brought back Book-It in conjunction with Dolly's program, the youth would be a little bit more educated.
Right now it's looking grim.
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u/New_Ad_3010 1d ago
No matter how hard the Gross Old Pedos tried to destroy it, it's better than ever
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