North Knoxville Business & Professional Association

Join us One Week from today on June 12th for our next membership meeting at St. John's Lutheran Church! We will be joined by Centro Hispano who will discuss the important work they are doing in Knoxville! We will be joined by Bonnie Ortiz who currently serves as Centro Hispano’s Sr. Youth & Family Engagement Coordinator; as well as Claudia Mata who is the first Senior Community Empowerment & Advocacy Coordinator at Centro Hispano of East Tennessee. She also serves on several boards and steering committees, including the Juvenile Court Assistant Board, Headstart Advisory Board, the Site Steering Committee for Beaumont Magnet Academy & West View, and more.

Breakfast (provided by East Tennessee Heat & Air) will be served at 7:45, and our meeting will begin promptly at 8:00am. We look forward to seeing you there!

City seeks public input on intersection safety improvements along East Knoxville's Magnolia corridor Knoxville seeks community input on safety upgrades for Magnolia Avenue intersections, funded by an $8 million Department of Transportation grant.

Celebrate Pollinator Week with UT Gardens! 🌸🐝

Join us at free "Garden Buzz" events at UT Gardens locations across Tennessee on June 24 to learn about the vital role of pollinators through family-friendly activities, exhibits, garden tours and take-home plants (while supplies last)!

Make plans to join us in Knoxville, Crossville or Jackson to explore how you can support our pollinators in your own backyard.

Learn more: utianews.tennessee.edu/time-to-celebrate-and-support-pollinators-ut-gardens-host-annual-garden-buzz

UT Gardens Knoxville | UT Gardens: Crossville, The Plateau Discovery Gardens | UT Gardens Jackson

Help our seniors!

⏰ 25 Days to Go!
With just 25 days until the Friends of Wesley Breakfast, we want to say thank you to the friends who generously support our Senior Citizen Program. Because of you, older adults in our community feel seen, supported, and cared for every day. ❤
Please join us for the Friends of Wesley Breakfast as we celebrate impact, community, and the work happening at Wesley House.

June 26th at 7:30am
9919 Kingston Pike
Knoxville, TN 37922

☕✨ We’d love to see you there! Email [email protected] to save your seat today.

Community Television celebrating 50 years!

Thank you to for these amazing posters commemorating our 50th! These will be available for purchase this weekend. We will see you on 6/5-6/6 and for an amazing weekend of stories, histories, archives, puppets and musical performances!

Thank you to our community partners

Mobile Pantry schedule for this week:

Check out our Mobile Pantry calendar for details on this week's distributions at SecondHarvestETN.org/mobile-pantries or via the link tree in our bio.

Roane County: Wednesday 6/3 from 10:00 am until all allotted food is distributed
Union County: Thursday 6/4 from 11:00 am until all allotted food is distributed
Jefferson County: Friday 6/5 from 10:00 am until all allotted food is distributed

For locations and other details, and a full list of upcoming mobile pantries, please visit our website by heading to the link tree in our bio.

New solicitations to work with the City of Knoxville.

For the full list of open solicitations or to register as a vendor, click the link in the comments.

Do you have time to volunteer this summer?

Looking for a meaningful way to give back this summer? Mobile Meals is in need of volunteers to deliver meals to homebound seniors across Knox County now through August. Routes are available every weekday, take about 2 hours to complete, and can be scheduled based on your availability, whether that's once a week, once a month, or just a few times during the summer.

Volunteering is flexible, onboarding is quick, and the impact is immediate. To get started, fill out our application here: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/MTMNLQygxr

Questions? Email [email protected], text (865) 680-2594, or call (865) 524-2786 🍽️❤️