{"id":749811,"date":"2026-08-26T01:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T01:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/749811\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T01:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T01:28:12","slug":"dolly-parton-country-music-icon-dies-after-brief-battle-with-cancer-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/749811\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton, country music icon, dies after brief battle with cancer – updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘I just give from my heart’published at 23:38 BST 25 August<\/p>\n

23:38 BST 25 August<\/p>\n

\"\"Grace Eliza Goodwin
US reporter<\/p>\n

\"DollyImage source, Getty Images<\/p>\n

Dolly Parton’s legacy extends far beyond music and entertainment, as the legendary star devoted decades of her life to charitable causes. <\/p>\n

In 1988, Parton created the Dollywood Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to improving child literacy, funding scholarships and education, and offering community aid.<\/p>\n

The foundation’s flagship programme is the Imagination Library, a free service that gifts one book per month to children from birth until their fifth birthday. <\/p>\n

After wildfires swept through Parton’s home county in Tennessee in 2016, the foundation raised more than $12m for families who had lost their homes. <\/p>\n

Parton has also donated millions more to pediatric infectious disease research, food and grocery programmes at the Salvation Army, assistance for Hurricane Helene victims and women’s health services.<\/p>\n

When the pandemic swept around the world in 2020, she created the Dolly Parton Covid-19 Research Fund at Vanderbilt University, in her home state of Tennessee, which provided seed money for research that led to the Moderna vaccine against the disease. <\/p>\n

In 2022, she received the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy which honoured her as “one of the entertainment world\u2019s most generous philanthropists”.<\/p>\n

“I just give from my heart,” she said when accepting the award. “I just see a need and if I can fill it, then I will.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘I just give from my heart’published at 23:38 BST 25 August 23:38 BST 25 August Grace Eliza GoodwinUS…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-749811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}