Dolly Parton at the 61st annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Image: Invision/Jordan Strauss via AP
Country icon Dolly Parton is making a big donation to help fund coronavirus research, as well as taking time out every week to read children’s books online to kids everywhere.
The “9 to 5” singer, actress and philanthropist tweeted Wednesday that she is donating $1 million to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee for coronavirus research.
Additionally, she is working with her charity, The Imagination Library, to read a children’s book on YouTube every Thursday at 7 p.m. EST for 10 weeks. The Imagination Library provides children free books by mail every month and the program is available in all 50 states and five countries. RGA
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