News & Updates

WFET Board member, Carol Transou, has been named the first Board Member Emerita by the Women's Fund of East Tennessee. As an Emerita member, Carol will continue to serve on the Board in an advisory role indefinitely. She is a Founding Member of the Women’s Fund of...

The Restoration House (TRH) provides low-income, mother-led families with supportive housing, family advocacy, ally teams, and youth development to break the cycle of poverty. TRH has developed The Village, a 24 unit mixed-income restorative community in West...

Nyda Brook is a Women’s Fund of East Tennessee Legacy member, serves on the Annual Women’s Fund Luncheon Committee, and is a major sponsor. Most recently, she, and her husband William B. Smith, MD, FACC, shared their sea-going vessel, Sensation, with the Women’s Fund...

James Beard Award Winning Chef Joseph Lenn Benefits the Women’s Fund at JC Holdway. Board member Laura Seery Cole was sharing the work of the Women’s Fund with good friend Chef Joseph Lenn when he said, “what can I do to help?” They cooked up a winning event to raise...

The Women’s Fund of East Tennessee, in conjunction with Jonesborough’s McKinney Center hosted its seventh Journeys of Women Art Exhibit (JVII) with Opening Reception on August 29, 2019. The event was a complete success, netting over $38,000 to support our efforts...

Here begins the story of "Trout Lily" and sisters-in-law, Peggy and Gwen Wallace of Johnson City. They are friends of artist, Coralie Tweed and learned that Coralie had painted “View from Trout Lily” for Journeys VII and it was available for purchase. Gwen began her...

“Wild Women of Jonesborough was born over an ironing board and vintage linen napkins.” Really! In October 2018, the world premier of Wild Women of Winedale was set to open at the Jonesborough Repertory Theatre. Could “wild” women in Jonesborough contribute funds to be...

It is exciting to be able to highlight Anna Lora Taylor, our Program Officer, one of the authors of "Evaluation of an SCCT (Social Cognitive Career Theory)-Based Intervention to Increase Postsecondary Awareness in Rural Appalachian Youth", an article published in the...

On May 9, 2019, the Women's Fund Advocacy Committee partnered with Lonsdale Elementary School to host a Career Day. The Advocacy Committee gathered over 30 professionals from diverse careers in our community who spent the day talking with 400 elementary school...

The Haslam Family Foundation has awarded $100,000 in grants to support the Women’s Fund of East Tennessee’s (WFET) current network project which is working to increase access to postsecondary education for women and girls in East Tennessee through narrative change....