United Way Joins With Dolly Parton to Expand Literacy Program
May 18, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
Dolly Parton is teaming up with the United Way of America to double the size of her children’s-literacy organization Imagination Library, the Associated Press reports.
The entertainer joined Brian Gallagher, chief executive of United Way of America, last week to announce a goal of providing free books monthly to 1 million children by 2014, double Imagination Library’s current target. Founded by Ms. Parton in her home state of Tennessee, the reading program now operates in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain.
Read a Chronicle of Philanthropy article about Imagination Library.
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