Impact Stories & Features

Carolyn Williams started with a question. “What can I do?” That was more than ten years ago at South Knoxville[...]

Shanae (Caity) Southall spent five months talking to families in her community about how they were managing rising food prices,[...]

2026 Austin-East Class of '72 with students

When most of us think about learning history in school, we picture a textbook or a screen. On a February[...]

How United Way and East Tennessee employers are addressing the childcare gap for ALICE workers In Knox County, the average[...]

Mother with two children.

Brianne Ogle sits on her living room floor sharing details of her life over the past 14 months, during which[...]

Monday through Friday, dozens of students at Whittle Springs Middle travel along White Oak Lane to get to school. For[...]

Madasia Middlebrook beams as she shows off her graduation cap, decorated with glitter, flowers and the words: Let everything you[...]

Tammy Seaton and her husband Stuart talk about finances now, or rather they text about them. She types up a[...]

What began as a simple service project to share holiday meals with one school has grown into a county-wide effort[...]