Impact Stories & Features

It is hard to match the energy of hundreds of coworkers showing up with smiles and an eagerness to help.[...]

There was excitement and a little friendly competition inside the Multi-Purpose Room of Jefferson City Christian Church as local businesses[...]

Chrystal Armstrong Brown, president and CEO of United Way of Greater Knoxville, invited UWGK’s 105 funded partners to join her[...]

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

At the YWCA’s newly renovated historic building in downtown Knoxville, volunteers unpacked a boutique’s worth of clothing and prepared rooms[...]

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[...]