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Program Support

211- $50,000
East Tennessee 2-1-1 -- 50,000

AGAPE - $51,500
Therapeutic Residential
Halfway House -- 51,500

AMERICAN RED CROSS - $646,149
Community Volunteer Services -- 68,000
Disaster Services -- 220,500
Nursing Education Services -- 108,000
Safety Education Services -- 76,000
Service to Armed Forces--121,500
Youth Services -- 52,149

ARNSTEIN JEWISH
COMMUNITY CENTER -- $5,686

Milton Collins Day Camp -- 5,686

ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION -- $20,000
Life Improvement Through
Exercise and Education -- 20,000

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS
OF TENNESSEE VALLEY -- $90,000

Community-Based Mentoring -- 48,600
School-Based Mentoring -- 41,400

BOY SCOUTS - $196,392
Boy Scouting -- 31,672
Cub Scouting -- 84,276
Venturing Program -- 4,850
Learning for Life --25,621
Outreach Scouting--49,973

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS - $615,681
Child Care Food Program -- 127,796
Child Safety Program -- 117,089
Education and Literacy
Development -- 172,796
Interpersonal/Life Skills
Development -- 100,000
Prevention and Health -- 98,000

CASA - $35,000
Training and Supervising
CASA Volunteers -- 35,000

CATHOLIC CHARITIES -- $78,853
Columbus Group Home for Boys --32,940
Parent Place --35,190
Samaritan Place -- 10,723

CEREBRAL PALSY CENTER - $236,590
Day Services -- 236,590

CEREBRAL PALSY HOUSING
CORPORATION -$33,000
Group Home --33,000

CHILD & FAMILY TENNESSEE - $650,380
Connections: In-Home
Family Preservation -- 114,280
Continuum for
Permanency Services -- 72,000
Family Crisis Center -- 82,000
Great Starts -- 35,000
Kids on the Block -- 26,100
Partners for Child Abuse Prevention -- 55,000
PASAAC/Sex Abuse Counseling -- 82,000
PleasanTree Apartments -- 50,000
Runaway Shelter and
Project Safe Place -- 60,000
Therapy Center -- 60,000
Transitional Living -- 14,000

THE CHILDREN’S CENTER - $67,035
Certificate Program -- 16,759
Scholarship Program -- 50,276

COMMUNITY ACTION
COMMITTEE—OFFICE ON AGING - $156,358

Daily Living Center -- 11,063
Mobile Meals -- 107,000
SCIRS/Information and Referral -- 38,295

EAST TENNESSEE
CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
REHABILITATION CENTER - $100,125

Motor Development Services -- 15,750
Speech and Language Services -- 84,375

THE EAST TENNESSEE
COMMUNITY DESIGN CENTER - $16,500

Designworks - 16,500

EAST TENNESSEE
TECHNOLOGY ACCESS CENTER - $34,900

Building Literacy in Students -- 13,300
Direct Assistance & Advocacy --21,600

EPILEPSY FOUNDATION -- $49,000
Client Services -- 34,000
Public Education -- 15,000

THE FLORENCE
CRITTENTON AGENCY - $137,742

Residential Treatment Services -- 97,742
STARS - 40,000

FRIENDS OF LITERACY - $65,000
Adult Literacy -- 65,000

GIRL SCOUTS - $194,176
Experiential Education -- 116,506
Health & Fitness -- 77,670

HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER - $102,436
Adolescent Drug
and Alcohol Services -- 5,915
Therapeutic Preschool -- 96,521

INTERFAITH HEALTH CLINIC -- $140,000
Healthcare for the
Working Uninsured -- 140,000

KNOX COUNTY ARC - $138,000
Beta Home -- 45,500
Independent Living -- 22,000
Sunshine Early Intervention -- 26,500
Sunshine Industries -- 16,000
Sunshine Leisure
Services/Recreation -- 28,000

KNOX COUNTY SCHOOLS /
PTA CLOTHING CENTER - $52,750

PTA Clothing Center -- 52,750

KNOXVILLE AREA
URBAN LEAGUE - $154,430

Housing & Community
Development -- 49,611
Workforce Development &
Technology -- 104,819

KNOXVILLE CENTER
OF THE DEAF - $38,896

Core Management Program -- 38,896

KNOXVILLE VOLUNTEER
EMERGENCY RESCUE SQUAD - $99,000

Knoxville Volunteer
Emergency Rescue Squad -- 99,000

LADIES OF CHARITY - $49,000

Emergency Assistance -- 49,000

LEGAL AID OF EAST TENNESSEE - $218,587
Domestic Violence Civil
Legal Services -- 134,826
Paralegal Intake and Brief Services -- 83,761

MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION - $92,476
Client Services -- 27,211
Education -- 53,148
System Advocacy --12,117

MY VILLAGE CHILD
DEVELOPMENT CENTER - $47,000

My Village Child
Development Center -- 47,000

PENINSULA BEHAVIORAL HEALTH - $65,446
Independent Living -- 65,446

THE SALVATION ARMY - $380,980
Emergency Assistance -- 165,100
Joy Baker Center/Women’s Shelter -- 68,000
Operation Bootstrap/Men’s Shelter -- 147,880

SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK - $69,462
Cased Food -- 38,192
Food for Kids -- 19,700
Knoxville Harvest -- 11,570

SENIOR CITIZENS HOME
ASSISTANCE SERVICE - $122,611

Home Hair Care - 7,611
Homemaker - 115,000

SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER
OF EAST TN -$60,140

Personal Child Safety Education --21,340
Victim Advocacy --38,800

VOLUNTEER MINISTRY CENTER -- $73,000
Resource Center -- 73,000

WESLEY HOUSE
COMMUNITY CENTER - $99,616

After School/C.A.R.E.S. -- 67,018
Senior Citizens/W.I.S.E. -- 5,000
Summer/ S.T.E.P. -- 27,598

YMCA - $219,591
Community Aquatics & Safety -- 19,000
Community Wellness -- 71,000
Day Camp -- 31,703
School Age Child Care -- 69,825
Teen Leadership -- 28,063

YWCA - $450,450
After School
(Phyllis Wheatley Center) -- 200,000
Health and Fitness -- 50,853
Transitional Housing -- 96,600
Victim Advocacy -- 48,857
Youth Department -- 54,140

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