Parton expanding her childhood literacy program
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DETROIT — Dolly Parton says she’s expanding her philanthropic work with children through a partnership with the United Way of America.
The entertainer says her Imagination Library and the United Way have set a goal to provide free books monthly to 1 million children by 2014. That’s double what the literacy initiative now serves.
She joined Brian Gallagher, chief executive of the national nonprofit, to make the announcement at a conference in Detroit on Friday. Parton also performed her hit “9 to 5.”
The program founded by Parton in her home state of Tennessee in the mid-’90s operates in the U.S., Canada and Britain.
She recently spent several weeks in New York working on “9 to 5: The Musical,” a stage version of the 1980 movie in which she starred.
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