Community Care Fund

KUB is partnering with the Tennessee Valley Authority on the Community Care Fund to support local initiatives that provide assistance in the following areas:

  • Education
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Health, Hunger, & Housing
  • Workforce Development & Training
  • Community Enrichment

Community Care Fund Recipients

In 2024, KUB and TVA provided grants to the following nonprofit organizations: 

  • Special Spaces, Inc.: Funding will provide bedroom makeovers for kids with cancer.
  • Knoxville Dream Center: Funding will assist in increasing nutritious meals to families struggling with food insecurity and increase the engagement of parents with their child's educators.
  • Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation - T1D: Funds will be used for community engagement and outreach.
  • Friends of Literacy, Inc.: Funding will be used towards programs to help improve literacy and health outcomes for at-risk young children.
  • Koinonia Foundation: Funds used to bolster the infrastructure of programs for individuals with disabilities and procure essential supplies necessary to deliver high-quality experiences.
  • Centro Hispano de East Tennessee: Funds will be used towards community resources map of Knoxville and client assistance.
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of East Tennessee: Funds will be used to provide support to older youth who have aged out of other programs.
  • Friends of TN Babies with Special Needs: Funds will be used to provide care packages for premature babies in the NICU at ETCH.
  • Shangri- La Therapeutic Academy of Riding (STAR): Funding will be used to supplement lessons for the Therapeutic Riding Program.
  • Knoxville Children's Theatre: Funds will be used towards scholarships for children to participate in the program.
  • Autism Breakthrough of Knoxville: Funds will be used towards scholarships for the Social Skills Groups.
  • Remote Area Medical: Funds will be used towards one clinic day, providing access to free dental, vision, and medical care for the underserved.
  • Metro Drug Coalition: Funds will be used towards Recovery Housing Support Scholarships, bus basses, and recovery groups.
  • Random Acts of Flowers: Funds will be used towards delivery of flowers across area hospitals.
  • Friends of the Knox County Public Library: Funds will be used towards the Children's Festival of Reading.
  • Knox County Community Gardens and Growers' Alliance: Funds will be used towards creating new gardens in East Knoxville to combat food insecurity.
  • Helping Mamas Knoxville: Funds will be used to purchase car seats and pack n' plays.
  • 100 Black Men of Knoxville: Funds will be used towards scholarships and overnight college tours.
  • Senior Citizens Home Assistance Service, Inc. (SCHAS): Funds will be used to sponsor service hours for in-home caregiving.
  • Bridge Refugee Services: Funds will go towards the Refugee Occupancy Opportunity Funding.
  • Fort Sanders Foundation: Funds will go towards Katerpillar Kids Camp.
  • Closer Walk Reentry & Advocacy Program, INC.: Funds will go towards program materials for those reentering the workforce.