For Dolly Parton super-fans who live in Tennessee, there's a souvenir you can purchase to support her favorite cause. Tennessee drivers can get their own custom vanity license plate, complete with Parton's face over a mountain landscape (via Imagination Library). The vanity plates cost just $35, a small price to pay to put the woman behind "Jolene" on your car. After production costs, $15.37 of that will go to one of Parton's charitable foundations, Imagination Library, with the same amount going to the Tennessee Arts Commission. Thanks to a contribution from the Governor's Books from Birth Foundation, the profits from each plate sold will cover the cost for a whole year of books for a child.
Parton was inspired to start the Imagination Library by her illiterate father. The organization mails free books to children starting at birth. At first, the books were mailed to children in her home county. Soon the program expanded, and now children in four different countries can be sent books from the Imagination Library. Over one million books are mailed to children around the world each month.