Dolly Parton thanked the soon-to-be-married Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce for their donation to her Imagination Library, one of the beneficiaries of the $26 million donation the couple announced Thursday before their reported wedding day.
“Taylor and Travis,
it’s Dolly,” Parton said in a thank you video posted Friday on social media. “I was just told that you two are making a donation of $2 million to my Imagination Library. Thank you, thank you, thank you! I’m blown away and overjoyed with that gratitude.”
The country legend then joked, “Now, it’s evident that you two have made giving back a key part of your lives. So, hey, when you have your first born, can I have it? Because that is gonna be one special baby!”
On Thursday, ahead of their rumored Madison Square Garden wedding ceremony, Swift and Kelce announced a $26 million donation to charities are based in cities that hold personal connections to the couple. They include Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, Nashville’s The Store, Helping Harvest in Swift’s hometown of Reading, P.A., Kansas City’s Children’s Mercy Hospital and Harvesters – The Community Food Network, After-School All-Stars in Kelce’s hometown of Cleveland, along with several national charities like Feeding America National, ASPCA National, Grammy In The Schools National, and Parton’s Imagination Library.
“You know the mission of the Dollywood Foundation is to dream more, care more, learn more, and be more,” Parton added. “And thank you again for your very generous gift, and we’ll continue that mission, even in bigger ways now with your money.”
Parton closed out her video message by singing to the couple, “I will always love you.”
The couple also donated to charities in places that were rumored wedding destinations, like Community Food Bank in Rhode Island, where Swift also owns a home. Nine charities in New York received a donation, including New York City’s City Harvest, Food Bank for NYC, New York Cares, Education Through Music in New York, Answer The Call in New York, Musical Mentors in New York, After-School All- Stars in New York, MSK Kids, the pediatric cancer program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Children & Teen and Adolescents & Young Adult (AYA) Programs, and Hassenfeld Children’s Hosipal at NYU Langone.
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