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Program Support
211
$45,200
- 211— Knoxville’s Information and Referral - 45,200
AGAPE
$58,000
- Halfway House and Residential Treatment - 58,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS
$745,826
- Armed Forces - 135,000
- Community Volunteer Services - 87,040
- Disaster Services - 245,000
- Health and Nursing Services - 119,800
- Safety Education Services - 97,993
- Youth Services - 60,993
ARNSTEIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
$6,517
- Milton Collins Day Camp - 6,517
ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION
$83,875
- Patient and Community Services - 28,875
- Public and Professional Education - 35,000
- Research - 20,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF TENNESSEE VALLEY
$100,000
- CORE (Community Based Mentoring) - 54,000
- Bigs in Schools (School Based Mentoring) - 46,000
BOY SCOUTS
$243,737
- Boy Scout Program - 34,644
- Cub Scout Program - 100,399
- Venturing Program - 7,783
- Learning for Life - 31,094
- Outreach Scouting - 45,086
- Activities and Camping Program - 24,731
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS
$717,270
- Child Care Food Program - 127,796
- Child Safety Program - 157,994
- Education and Literacy Development - 163,296
- Interpersonal and Life Skills Development - 136,283
- Prevention and Health - 131,901
CASA
$43,943
- Court Appointed Special Advocates - 43,943
CATHOLIC CHARITIES
$12,600
- Samaritan Place - 12,600
CEREBRAL PALSY CENTER
$244,157
- Day Services - 244,157
CEREBRAL PALSY HOUSING CORPORATION
$34,000
- Group Home - 34,000
CHILD & FAMILY TENNESSEE
$725,670
- Connections: In Home Family Preservation - 97,780
- Continuum for Permanency Services - 78,800
- Family Crisis Center - 85,000
- Family Life Enrichment - 16,500
- Great Starts - 39,984
- Kids on the Block - 29,000
- Managing Emotions Nonviolently (MEN’s) Partners for Child Abuse Prevention - 62,000
- PASAAC / Sex Abuse Counseling - 90,000
- PleasanTree Apartments - 53,200
- Respond - 12,000
- Runaway Shelter and Project Safe Place - 68,952
- Therapy Center - 68,000
- Transitional Living - 15,954
THE CHILDREN’S CENTER
$71,619
- CAC (Certificate) Program - 17,905
- Scholarship Program - 53,714
COLUMBUS HOME
$73,433
- Columbus Home Shelter - 37,155
- Parent Place - 36,278
COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE—OFFICE ON AGING
$179,050
- Daily Living Center - 13,000
- Mobile Meals - 121,050
- SCIRS / Information and Referral - 45,000
DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
$25,000
EAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL REHABILITATION CENTER
$150,000
- Motor Development Services - 25,000
- Speech and Language Services - 125,000
THE EAST TENNESSEE COMMUNITY DESIGN CENTER
$33,000
- Designworks 33,000
EAST TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGY ACCESS CENTER
$35,600
- Community Living: Direct Assistance and Advocacy - 21,600
- Literacy for Young Children - 14,000
EPILEPSY FOUNDATION
$53,874
- Client Services - 35,539
- Public Education 18,335
THE FLORENCE CRITTENTON AGENCY
$163,147
- Residential Treatment Services - 113,147
- STARS - 50,000
FRIENDS OF LITERACY
$61,200
- Adult Literacy Program - 61,200
GIRL SCOUTS
$242,720
- Girl Scout Outreach - 58,000
- Girl Scouts in Your Neighborhood - 142,220
- Outdoor Education - 42,500
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES
$73,492
- Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) - 29,958
- Occupational Skills Training / SPACE - 10,772
- Placement - 12,982
- Work Adjustment - 19,781
HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER
$156,721
- Adolescent Drug and Alcohol Services - 19,887
- Adult Intensive Outpatient - 2,946
- Adult Residential - 19,538
- Sisters of the Rainbow - 9,655
- Therapeutic Preschool - 104,695
INTERFAITH HEALTH CLINIC
$140,000
- Healthcare for the Working Uninsured - 140,000
KNOX COUNTY ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS
$152,000
- Beta Home 45,500 Community Support/Independent Living - 21,500
- Sunshine Early Intervention - 32,000
- Sunshine Industries - 20,000
- Sunshine Leisure Services / Recreation- 33,000
KNOX COUNTY SCHOOLS—PTA CLOTHING CENTER
$55,000
- PTA Clothing Center 55,000
KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE
$186,430
- Housing and Community Development - 65,611
- Workforce Development and Technology - 120,819
KNOXVILLE CENTER OF THE DEAF
$46,800
- Core Management Program - 46,800
KNOXVILLE VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY RESCUE SQUAD
$104,083
- Knoxville Volunteer Emergency Rescue Squad - 104,083
LADIES OF CHARITY
$50,000
- Emergency Assistance Program - 50,000
LEGAL AID OF EAST TENNESSEE
$232,539
- Domestic Violence Civil Legal Services - 143,432
- Paralegal Intake and Brief Services - 89,107
MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION
$92,476
- System Advocacy - 12,117
- Client Services - 27,211
- Education - 53,148
MY VILLAGE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER
$55,000
- My Village Child Development Center - 55,000
NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION
$113,887
- Community Services - 2,361
- Education - 23,483
- Patient Services - 88,043
PENINSULA BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
$68,640
- Independent Living Program - 68,640
SAFE HAVEN CENTER
$62,000
- Personal Child Safety Education - 22,000
- Therapy Program - 20,000
- Victim Assistance - 20,000
THE SALVATION ARMY
$422,205
- Emergency Assistance Program - 180,000
- Joy Baker Center / Women’s Shelter- 76,046
- Operation Bootstrap / Men’s Shelter - 166,159
SECOND HARVEST
FOOD BANK
$87,378
- Cased Food Program - 37,378
- Food for Kids - 23,000
- Kids Cafe - 14,000
- Knoxville Harvest - 13,000
SENIOR CITIZENS HOME ASSISTANCE SERVICE
$141,722
- Home Hair Care - 15,222
- Homemaker Program - 126,500
VOLUNTEER MINISTRY
CENTER
$81,657
- Day Resource Center - 81,657
WESLEY HOUSE COMMUNITY
CENTER
$110,000
- After School Program / C.A.R.E.S. - 69,888
- Senior Citizens / W.I.S.E.- 9,828
- Summer Program / S.T.E.P.- 30,284
YMCA
$271,093
- Community Aquatics & Safety Programs - 38,000
- Community Wellness Programs - 82,000
- Day Camp Program - 37,079
- School Age Child Care Programs - 81,192
- Teen Leadership Programs - 32,822
YWCA
$485,569
- After School Program / Phyllis Wheatley Center - 214,617
- Health and Fitness - 56,700
- Transitional Housing - 101,951
- Victim Advocacy - 48,979
- Youth Department - 63,322
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10 Year Goals
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