Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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As big of an icon as Dolly Parton is -- she was also just as big of a philanthropist.

The music icon partnered with United Way for the Imagination Library - tackling the global learning crisis.

The Imagination Library -- founded in 1995 -- has offered up hundreds of thousands of free books to children across the world.

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