{"id":4910,"date":"2019-03-24T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=4910"},"modified":"2019-03-22T11:18:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T15:18:14","slug":"dolly-parton-give-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/03\/dolly-parton-give-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton Give Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UbxUSsFXYo4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Dolly Parton, through her Dollywood Foundation&#8217;s My People Fund, has donated $200,000 to volunteer fire departments in rural Tennessee who helped battle the deadly wildfires that swept through the area in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>[twitter id=&#8221;1107793190764138498&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/news\/local\/tennessee\/2019\/03\/18\/dolly-parton-donation-volunteer-firefighters-gatlinburg-wildfire\/3208229002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Tennessean reports<\/a> that eight volunteer fire departments Sevier County, her home county, received $20,000, while $40,000 went to the county&#8217;s training center.<\/p>\n<p>Dolly also spent part of last Saturday, March 16th meeting the various fire chiefs. She said,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It is only fitting that the last of the My People Fund will go to those who were the first to respond to the fires.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dolly created the My People Fund in 2016, just days after the wildfires that lasted five days, killing fourteen people and destroying more than 2,500 homes. Dolly&#8217;s My People Fund also provided $1,000 checks monthly for a six-month period after the fire to 885 families in the area who lost their homes. Thanks to the more than $9 million raised during a telethon, Dolly bumped each of the 885 families&#8217; last check to $5,000, giving each family a total of $10,000 in aid from the My People Fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton, through her Dollywood Foundation&#8217;s My People Fund, has donated $200,000 to volunteer fire departments in rural Tennessee.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":4917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[83,756,755],"class_list":["post-4910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-dolly-parton","tag-dollywood","tag-my-people-fund"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-10 20:43:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/03\/dolly-parton-give-back\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4911,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910\/revisions\/4911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}