Rosie Waterland
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14,460 appearances
17 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 3 Sep
Rosie Waterland’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Um, Dolly also just donates to everything.
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Like there is a lot that we don't know about that she's done cause she often does it privately, but she has these sort of bigger official programs, like the imagination library and the scholarship stuff that she does, but she also just donates as a need comes up.
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So she's donated to hospitals, disaster relief.
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She donated millions to research during COVID.
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Her donations were the reason the Moderna vaccine was developed.
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She has donated so much to the East Tennessee Children's Hospital that just earlier this year, before she died, after a significant undisclosed donation amount, they renamed it the Dolly Parton Children's Hospital.
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The hospital's president said the donation was –
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a generational and transformational amount.
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It is enough that any local child in East Tennessee who isn't insured or can't afford treatment has their treatment paid for at that
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Yeah.
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also understands that it's not complicated.
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often just a simple solution because she knows what it's like
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not have what she needs and she can think back to that time in her
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you know what would have helped?
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X. There's this great
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found from a woman called Stacia West who is a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania's Center for Guaranteed Income Research.
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And she's like an associate professor in sort of these kinds of issues.
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And she says the simplicity of Dolly Parton's solutions and charity is what made her so magical.
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She studied what happened with the recipients of Dolly Parton's $12 million fund that she set up for families who lost their homes in the 2016 fires that swept through Sevier
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Tennessee.
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