Dolly formed the Dollywood Foundation in 1988 to help decrease the high school dropout rate in Sevier County.
Then she founded the Imagination Library in 1995 to make sure kids had books at home to read---- something that she and many of her classmates lacked growing up.
"Because of the Imagination Library, many know Dolly Parton as "the book lady," as the program provides a new, age-appropriate book each month to preschool children from birth to their fifth birthday; to date, the program has registered 1,788,176 young people and gifted a total of 152,366,795 books to young readers throughout the world."
The resolution says that for five decades, Dolly has brought joy and hope to many people and that she is an inspiration around the world, but especially in East Tennessee.