Volunteer Opportunity for WF Members

The Women’s Fund of East Tennessee encourages all its volunteers and supporters to apply to be a mentor to high school seniors through the Tennessee Achieves program. This program provides post high school educational opportunities for Tennessee high school students by providing last dollar scholarships along with mentor guidance. The goals of Tennessee Achieves and the Women’s Fund dovetail well so please consider signing up now! The 2016 program begins in September. Please indicate on your application that you heard about this program through Other: WFETN.

The application can be found here: www.tnachieves.org/mentor-application

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From Julie’s Desk

In this month’s newsletter, we introduce Dr. Anna Lora Taylor, Assistant Professor of Counseling at Carson-Newman University, current Women’s Fund Board and Executive Committee Member, as well as the Chair of the Grants Committee. Having served as the former Program Director of the Women’s Fund from 2017 – 2020 , fresh out of her doctoral studies at the University of Tennessee in Counselor Education, Anna Lora has a unique perspective of and vision for the organizations impact in East Tennessee.

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Grantee Spotlight: Fostering Hope TN

We sat down with Chante Hensley, Executive Director of Fostering Hope TN, one of the Women’s Fund’s newer Self-Sustainability grantees that has supported foster care, adoption, and kinship community in our area since 2013. Chante and her husband, Matt, have not only...

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From Julie’s Desk…

Our 15th Anniversary Year has launched with a blast—thankfully not the Arctic kind we’ve all been experiencing recently! As we celebrate this milestone, we are truly “saving a seat at our table for you” and actively seeking luncheon sponsorships.

If you are reading this, we hope you have already made plans to join us on Thursday, March 26.

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