Smart Start + Dolly Parton = 10 Million Books for NC’s Children!

This week Smart Start celebrated a major milestone –10 million books sent to North Carolina children through Dolly Parton's Imagination Library! Imagination Library is dedicated to inspiring a love of reading by gifting books free of charge to children from...

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Statement from Dolly Parton and the President of Smart Start on the State Budget

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  |  June 20, 2017 Press Contact: Heather Strickland 919-821-9564, 919-749-5013 hstrickland@smartstart.org The following joint statement from Dolly Parton and Cindy Watkins, President of the North Carolina Partnership for Children/Smart Start, is in response to the release of the...

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