YPK Gives Back: Local Organizations You Can Support
Introduction
This July, instead of hosting an event during one of the busiest (and hottest!) months of the year, we’re turning our attention toward supporting the organizations that support Knoxville year-round.
We’re in a season of uncertainty for many organizations, whether that’s from USDA pauses, Amercorps funding, economic concerns, or other external forces. Our nonprofit partners have helped YPK members understand and actively engage with Knoxville’s most pressing community needs.
This month, we encourage you to give what you can to our community partners. Whether that’s financially or with your time, your devotion to these organizations could make a life-saving impact. Please consider the below organizations:
Organizations
Second Harvest
Second Harvest YPK volunteer event
Second Harvest provides much needed food security to families around East Tennessee. Due to the impacts to USDA, many resources have been paused, with families in East Tennessee immediately being affected. Read more here.
Keep Knoxville Beautiful
Keep Knoxville Beautiful YPK street clean up volunteer event
Keep Knoxville Beautiful supports more than 6,000 volunteers each year to remove over 100K pounds of litter from Knox County. The organization also manages the county and city Adopt-A-Road programs and organizes planting and other community events to beautify the area.
Fish Pantries
BattleField Farm YPK volunteer event
BattleField Farm is an urban farm with the mission of transforming the community’s relationship to land and food in East Knoxville’s underserved communities. BattleField Farm is working to end food insecurity by partnering with community members to make fresh food accessible and to cultivate land-based sovereignty through education, workforce development, and direct relationships to land.
