Treat Yourself to a Dolly Parton License Plate and Support The Imagination Library at the same time! (must be a Tennessee resident)

 

If you are a resident of Tennessee, you can show your love of Dolly and help support Dolly's Imagination Library literacy program that gives children one free book a month from birth, to age five.

Read more about the Imagination Library here.

All sales of Dollywood Foundation license

plates supporting Imagination Library

All Tennessee drivers are required to get new license plates.

They can choose a Dolly Parton license plate and support

Imagination Library programs in Tennessee.

Author: WBIR Staff

Published: 5:05 PM EDT August 24, 2022

Updated: 10:11 AM EDT August 25, 2022

Source: WBIR

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee drivers are required to get a

new license plate when they renew their car registration this

year. They can choose to get a newly designed blue plate,

or they can choose a specialty plate.

If they choose a Dollywood Foundation license plate, they will help support Imagination Library programs across

the state. All of the sales go to support Imagination Library

programs across the state. Since 2017, the Knox County

chapter of the program has gotten more than $30,000

from license plates.

"So, $30,000 for the Knox County program, that will

support 2,000 children with an entire year's worth of

books," said Danielle Velez, a program manager of the

Imagination Library. "That's a great amount of money that

we're getting from the license plate sales."

Credit: Imagination Library

The program was founded in 1988 by Dolly Parton and

grew to deliver books to children around the world. It's

headquartered in Sevier County and every year, the Dolly

Parton Scholarship also gives $15,000 to five high school

students in the county to help them go to college.

The annual fee for the Dollywood Foundation license plate

is $61.50, with $35 of that fee going to benefit the Imagination

Library. It is available to all Tennessee residents. A full list of

available license plates is on the state's website.

Here’s the origin story of the Dolly Parton Imagination

Library License Plate from 2017.

Source: WKRN

PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (WKRN) – Dolly Parton announced

a special Imagination Library license plate that will benefit her

program that provides more than a million books to children

for free each month.
The colorful plate features the Imagination Library’s logo and

Parton’s likeness with a silhouette of the Great Smoky

Mountains in the background.
“My daddy thought the Imagination Library was the most

important thing I’d ever accomplished, so I know if he was

still here with us, he would’ve been the first person to buy

one for his truck,” Parton said.
The Dollywood Foundation plans to contribute its portion of the

plate proceeds directly to county Imagination Library programs

in Tennessee.
“We could not provide one million books to children each month

without the support of local communities around the world,”

said Dollywood Foundation President David Dotson.

“Through the funding and awareness, the Tennessee

Imagination Library license plate will generate, we’re able to

inspire even more children here in our home state to love to

read.”
The Dolly Parton/Imagination Library plate quickly reached

its 1,000-pre-order requirement, allowing it to go into

production.

The plates that were pre-ordered are beginning to arrive

at local county clerk’s offices. Plates can be personalized for

an additional fee through the Department of Revenue.