“I just give from my heart,” Parton said about her philanthropic work. “I never know what I’m going to do or why I’m gonna do it. I just see a need and if I can fill it, then I will.”
“I don’t do it for attention,” she told The Associated Press in an interview shortly before she received the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy at Gotham Hall in New York City Thursday night. “But look! I’m getting a lot of attention by doing it.”
Earlier this week, social media sleuths were able to piece together that for years, Parton has quietly paid for the band uniforms of many Tennessee high schools. In April 2020, Parton announced that she donated $1 million to the Vanderbilt University Medical Center for research that helped Moderna's vaccine development.
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