Steve GannDr. Dolly Parton
May 9th 2009 19:43
You could fill an entire column with just her professional accomplishments but I wanted to highlight some of her behind the scenes charity work.
Through Dolly's Imagination Library 500,000 children a month receive a new book. What started as a small in-county program has extended to nearly every state, Canada, and Europe.
Her Bald Eagle sanctuary at Dollywood has helped replenish the once endangered population and Dolly has been honored from the American Eagle Foundation for her rescue efforts.
In 2006 she was honored by the Kennedy Center for her lifetime achievements from bringing jobs to a depressed region with Dollywood to her fund raising efforts for the American Red Cross.
She recently donated 500,000 dollars to help construct a new cancer center in Sevier County in an effort to bring better care to her birth county.
She embodies the terms "never forgetting where you came from" and to always "pay it forward."
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