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Dolly Parton Tops Favorability Poll, Celebrated for Philanthropy

4/14/2026

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Dolly Parton, American singer and philanthropist, earned a 65% net favorability in a University of Massachusetts and YouGov poll, well above Barack Obama’s 14% and Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s 12%, with 5% unfavorability.
The poll highlights her philanthropy, including the Dollywood Foundation’s Imagination Library, which has distributed over 270 million books.
It notes her $1 million donation to Vanderbilt University for vaccine research.

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Story summary

Dolly Parton, American singer and philanthropist, earned a 65% net favorability in a University of Massachusetts and YouGov poll, well above Barack Obama’s 14% and Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s 12%, with 5% unfavorability.
The poll highlights her philanthropy, including the Dollywood Foundation’s Imagination Library, which has distributed over 270 million books.
It notes her $1 million donation to Vanderbilt University for vaccine research.