Community Investment Success Stories
The Power of Day of Caring
What happens when over 900 community members take the day off work to go volunteer across Greater Chattanooga? A lot. Gardens are planted, classrooms and hallways are re-painted. Trash is cleared out and community pantries are filled up. Donation...
United Way of Greater Chattanooga Unveils Record Community Impact in 2024 Annual Report
United Way of Greater Chattanooga's 2024 Annual Report celebrates a year of collaboration and transformative impact on children and families. At a time when more than 9,500 Hamilton County households with children face financial hardship, United Way of Greater...
CommUNITY Schools Program
The CommUNITY Schools program, a three-year partnership between local nonprofits Northside Neighborhood House and Helen Ross McNabb Center, serves K-12 students across the county by focusing on whole-child well-being. CommUNITY Schools have a strong focus on student...
Goodwill
One of our nonprofit partners, Goodwill, recently received Community Investment funding to help support their efforts to provide reliable and consistent employment opportunities which offer crucial skills and training for individuals entering the workforce....
Telehealth Audiology Programming
The Speech & Hearing Center recently received Innovation/Capacity-building funding through our Community Investment process for Telehealth Audiology Programming. Through this program, The Center was able to treat a 28-year-old woman with a congenital hearing loss,...
Chambliss Center for Children
One of our community partners, Chambliss Center for Children, recently received partial funding for the Children's Academy, formerly known as the East 5th Street Child Care Center through our Community Investment process. The Children’s Academy is located in the...
Children’s Services Program
One of our nonprofit partners, Signal Centers, recently received Community Investment funding for its Children's Services Program. At Signal, children of all abilities and incomes explore and learn together. The program includes both center-based and home-based...
ACHIEVE
Our local YMCA recently received Impact funding through our Community Investment process for two programs. The first, called ACHIEVE, aims to close the achievement gap by ensuring that children from preschool to high school have a year-around support system to ACHIEVE...
Streaming to Deter Isolation
The Jewish Federation of Greater Chattanooga (JFGC) recently received Innovation/Capacity-building funding through our Community Investment process for a new program called Streaming to Deter Social Isolation. This health and wellness-focused program is muti-layered...