Name of Organization Funding Awarded

Cancer Support Community
$15,000
The Women with Advanced Cancer Networker group supports women with advanced cancer, and the Kids Support Program helps children who have a loved one with cancer.

Catholic Charities of East Tennessee
$10,000
Columbus Home Group Home for Boys serves youth who are dealing with problems caused by abuse, neglect or other issues negatively affecting their well-being.

Child & Family Tennessee
$10,000
The “Great Starts Women’s Employment Improvement Project” provides job readiness training for women who have substance abuse problems, while they remain with and care for their children.

Community School of the Arts
$10,000
The Career Center for Creative and Culinary Arts is an interdisciplinary program that offers creative media and culinary opportunities to inner-city middle and high school students.

Crutcher Memorial Youth Enrichment Center                                                       $5,000
“Body and Mind” is an afterschool program designed to improve students’ academic achievement, health and nutrition.

East Tennessee Children’s Hospital
$15,000
“Keeping Our Children Safe” provides specialized car seats and safety restraints for medically fragile children who cannot use regular car seats.

East Tennessee Technology Access Center                                                                        $20,000
The “Technology for Youth” program provides services for youth who suffer form undiagnosed and untreated traumatic brain injury and other less visible disabilities.

Helen Ross McNabb Center
$10,000

The Therapeutic Preschool is a therapeutic program for children who have experienced abuse, neglect and/or trauma, which operates like a traditional preschool.

Hope Center
$20,500
“Women4Women” addresses the unique barriers to medical care and treatment and challenges affecting Knoxville area HIV+ women.

InterFaith Health Clinic                                                                                            $20,000
Health care services such as primary medical visits, dental exams, and mental health counseling sessions are provided for low-income, working, uninsured women.

Knoxville Re-Animation Coalition                                                                            $10,000
Fiscal Sponsor:  East Tennessee Community Design Center
Odd Fellows Scholars Program students will work with Carpetbag Theatre to develop digital media to educate the community about Odd Fellows Cemetery’s rich African-American history.

Socially Equal Energy Efficient Development (SEEED)                                        $10,000
Fiscal Sponsor:  Community Shares
SEEED Pre-Apprenticeship Program prepares disadvantaged youth from Knoxville’s inner city to be successful in apprenticeships and entry level careers in the high-growth green jobs sector.

Tribe One
$20,000
Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools Program provides summer and after-school enrichment programs for children.

WC TWO
$10,000
The First Tee Learning Center uses  instruction, enrichment activities, and golf to help at-risk youth develop positive life skills.

Total Funding Awarded:                                                                                           $186,500

Originally from Rhode Island, Sherri came to Knoxville by way of Atlanta and Charlotte (where she earned a B.S. in Business Administration from U.N.C.)  to attend the University of Tennessee College of Law.  Her six years of experience as an estate planning and probate attorney with Kizer and Black make Sherri very well-suited to her new position as ETF’s chief development officer. She brings a wealth of information about the important role of philanthropy in estate planning and is available to help donors and their professional advisors in planning for their philanthropy.  Please join us in welcoming Sherri to our ETF family by calling or emailing her (sdalley@etf.org). Her other contact information is attached.

ANDERSON COUNTY, Tenn. – East Tennessee Foundation (ETF) is proud to announce the winners of the 2012 Steven L. Coffey Memorial Scholarship Fund.

This year the four students include:  Brandye Hankins, Katie Styles, Samantha Owens, and Brittany Ridenour, all of Anderson County High School.  (For a photograph of the selected students, please see attachment. The students pictured are, from left to right: Brandye Hankins, Brittany Ridenour, Katie Styles and Samantha Owens).

The Steven L. Coffey Memorial Scholarship Fund of East Tennessee Foundation is designed to benefit high school graduates and adult residents of Anderson County who wish to pursue a college education. This unique program’s goals are to encourage academic success, provide needed support and help students realize their full potential.

Pat and David Coffey established the Steven L. Coffey Memorial Scholarship in honor of their son, who believed in the power of opportunity and education, and was a talented and successful businessman and family man.  Together, the Coffey family and ETF are working to encourage the continuing growth of Anderson County in memory of Steven L. Coffey.

“East Tennessee Foundation is proud to be a partner with Pat and David Coffey in assisting these four outstanding Anderson County young people in furthering their educational goals,” said Mike McClamroch, President and CEO of East Tennessee Foundation.

East Tennessee Foundation administers 36 active scholarship programs assisting over 120 students within a 25-county service area. The scholarships established through East Tennessee Foundation, by individuals, groups, families and friends, help fulfill the dreams of those wishing to pursue post-secondary education.

East Tennessee Foundation is a public, non-profit, regional community foundation serving 25 counties in East Tennessee. Governed by a volunteer Board of Directors, the Foundation’s mission is to create stronger communities and better lives through thoughtful giving.

For more information regarding the Steven L. Coffey Memorial Scholarship, the students and/or the Foundation, please contact Beth Heller, Scholarship & Program Officer, at (865) 524-1223 or via e-mail at bheller@etf.org

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“A Taste of Carter County” will be held on June 5th at 5:30 p.m. at the Elizabethton High School Cafeteria.
Tickets are $10 and can be purchased through the Elizabethton/Carter County Community Foundation, Carter County Chamber of Commerce or at local branches of Carter County Bank.