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Dolly Parton’s Dollywood Foundation Makes $4.5 Million Investment in Nashville Public Library Early Literacy Program
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Dolly Parton has long been an advocate and supporter of early childhood literacy. Now Parton’s Dollywood Foundation, home of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, has made a $4.5 million investment to help launch the Nashville Public Library’s new early literacy program, called Begin Bright.
According to the Nashville Public Library Foundation, the $4.5 million investment marks “the most significant gift” in the foundation’s 27-year history. Begin Bright will help ensure that every Nashville child starts kindergarten reading early, by delivering a Little Library filled with Parton’s Imagination Library books and a slate of Nashville Public Library resources to every childcare center in the county. A new app will also offer on-demand digital early literacy training for parents and teachers, while Vanderbilt University’s Prenatal to 3 Policy Impact Center will study the results, creating an actionable, measurable and replicable model.
#inspiration
Excerpt:
Dolly Parton has long been an advocate and supporter of early childhood literacy. Now Parton’s Dollywood Foundation, home of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, has made a $4.5 million investment to help launch the Nashville Public Library’s new early literacy program, called Begin Bright.
According to the Nashville Public Library Foundation, the $4.5 million investment marks “the most significant gift” in the foundation’s 27-year history. Begin Bright will help ensure that every Nashville child starts kindergarten reading early, by delivering a Little Library filled with Parton’s Imagination Library books and a slate of Nashville Public Library resources to every childcare center in the county. A new app will also offer on-demand digital early literacy training for parents and teachers, while Vanderbilt University’s Prenatal to 3 Policy Impact Center will study the results, creating an actionable, measurable and replicable model.
#inspiration
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