Ep 40 David Dotson

David Dotson is currently the CEO of The Dollywood Foundation. During his 20 year tenure at The Dollywood Foundation, he has led the expansion of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. The program works with 2000 local partners to gift a new book each month to over 1.4 million preschool children in 5 countries. The Imagination Library has gifted 130 million books since the program's inception. The Foundation also provides $100,000 for scholarships each year to local high school students. In November of 2016, he was asked to spearhead the effort to create The My People Fund to provide $12,000,000 of direct assistance to 900 families who lost their homes to the fires which swept through Sevier County, Tennesseee just after Thanksgiving. In addition, he coordinated the publication of several books by Dolly including Dream More, Dixie Fixins, I Am a Rainbow and the new edition of Coat of Many Colors. Other projects include the production of Dolly's children album I Believe in You; oversight of Dolly's museum, Chasing Rainbows; and he is part of the team that developed and now maintains her website, Dolly Parton.com Mr. Dotson was previously the Executive Director of Associated Catholic Charities of East Tennessee and the Field Representative for the Appalachian region for The Youth Project.