Community Health Charities of Tennessee

Community Health Charities of Tennessee is an alliance of leading nonprofit health research and service organizations whose mission is to improve the lives of people affected by chronic illness by investing in medical research, health services, and educational materials. We partner with employers to develop their charitable activities and provide employees with meaningful ways to connect with the health charities they care about through workplace giving, volunteerism, and education.

Governor's Books From Birth Foundation

This non-partisan, not-for-profit organization administers Tennessee's statewide Imagination Library through sponsoring organizations in all 95 counties. This program provides a free, age-appropriate, hardback book every single month to enrolled children from birth until their fifth birthday, at no cost to the parents and regardless of income. The books are a gift to all Tennessee's 375,000 children under age 5 and are mailed directly to their home. You can support your county's Imagination Library by registering your child to receive these books, by volunteering your time, and by raising money. With your help, we can see to it that every child in Tennessee grows up reading.

Idealist.org

Idealist.org connects organizations, individuals, resources, and ideas so that anyone anywhere can imagine and act toward building a better world. With over 65,000 organizations from 190 countries posting volunteer, job, internship, and event opportunities for its 50,000 daily visitors and 500,000 members, Idealist also provides extensive resources for job seekers, volunteers, and HR and volunteer management professionals.

Planet Aid

Planet Aid, a nonprofit organization, raises funds through textile recycling. Second-hand clothes, shoes, other textiles, books, small toys and laptops are sold for reuse to raise money for charities that do:

• Emergency relief - serving victims of hunger, war, natural disasters and other catastrophes.
• Relocating people or rebuilding areas hit by disaster.
• Development projects- schools, clinics, mini-banking, and small-scale industry among others.

Planet Aid helps the environment too. In 2006, 72 million pounds of clothes were rescued from the landfill and CO² emissions were reduced the equivalent of keeping 16,000 cars off the roads for a year!

Tennessee Disability Coalition

The Coalition is an alliance of organizations and individuals in Tennessee that have joined to promote the full and equal participation of men, women and children with disabilities in all aspects of life. The Coalition and its member agencies work together to advocate for public policy that ensures self-determination, independence, empowerment, integration and inclusion for people with disabilities.

TIRRC

The Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition is a statewide, immigrant and refugee-led collaboration whose mission is to empower immigrants and refugees throughout Tennessee to develop a unified voice, defend their rights, and create an atmosphere in which they are viewed as positive contributors to the state. Through extensive cross-ethnic organizing work, TIRRC has become one of the most diverse immigrant rights coalitions in the country.

Brain Injury Association of Tennessee

Our purpose is to improve the quality of life for persons with brain injuries and their families and to reduce the incidence of brain injury. This is to be accomplished by striving for excellence in providing statewide leadership, advocating for needed resources, delivering quality resources and information to any person, and developing self-advocacy skills within persons with brain injury and their families.

East Tennessee Technology Access Center (ETTAC)

The East Tennessee Technology Access Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people with disabilities reach their potential for learning, working, speaking and living through the use of assistive technology (anything that helps the functional capabilities of people with disabilities). ETTAC is a designated Microsoft Accessibility Resource Center. At no cost, local businesses and individuals can visit ETTAC, experiment with Windows Vista, Office 2007, Internet Explorer 7, the Comfort Mouse and Comfort Keyboard. Free CD's are also available with Windows Vista demos and tutorials, and Windows Vista accessibility tutorials and demonstrations. Organizations such as senior centers, libraries, retirement communities or other organizations with computer labs may request a free training on the accessibility options built into Windows operating system.

Over the years, the use of assistive technology has proven effective in enabling people with disabilities to set and reach goals which otherwise may not have been possible. ETTAC is truly a place where disabilities become possibilities.

Ronald McDonald House Charities Chattanooga

The Mission of Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Chattanooga is a commitment by caring people to lift children and families to a better tomorrow. The cornerstones of this program are The Ronald McDonald House®, Ronald McDonald Family Room™, The Ronald McDonald Care Mobile™ and The RMHC® Scholarship Program.

Siskin Children's Institute

Siskin Children's Institute is a leader in serving children with special needs, their families and the professionals who touch their lives. Located in a state-of-the-art building in downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee, Siskin Children's Institute achieves its mission through Siskin School, a preschool for children of all abilities, and the Siskin Training and Resource Center.

Tennessee Assoication of Audiologists & Speech Language Pathologists

The Foundation of the Tennessee Association of Audiologists & Speech-Language Pathologists is a non-profit, charitable organization dedicated to improving the quality of life of children and adults with communication disorders in the State of Tennessee. TAASLP encourages Tennesseans to join and work together for better communication for professionals, clients, workplaces, legislature, communities,
and all Tennessee.

Tennessee Conference on Social Welfare

The Tennessee Conference on Social Welfare is dedicated to achieving a high quality of life for all Tennesseans, particularly for our poorest and most vulnerable. We exist to train, support and advocate for EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS with the mission of improving the social and economic welfare of Tennesseans. This organization works towards the improvement of social policy and services to Tennessee seniors, families, children, the hungry, those with health problems and challenges, and many other service groups.

Tennessee Health Care Campaign

Incorporated in 1989, the Tennessee Health Care Campaign (THCC) is a statewide, nonprofit 501(c)3 organization, working for affordable, accessible, and quality health care for all Tennesseans. THCC's Board of Directors is made up of consumers, advocates, and social service professionals from throughout the state and works in collaboration with these same type groups to affect positive change in public health and health care. It is currently working to see how it can make Cover Tennessee a better program and cover more uninsured Tennesseans. In 2007, THCC will work with a national coalition to guarantee coverage for all children.

Tennessee Mental Health Consumers Association

The Tennessee Mental Health Consumers' Association (TMHCA) is Tennessee's only statewide consumer owned and operated organization with a board of directors and staff that are 100% mental health consumers. It is the mission of TMHCA "to promote recovery through education, advocacy, and peer support for all mental health consumers in Tennessee." Through information, education, and advocacy, TMHCA seeks to enhance the quality of life for all by promoting independence, dignity and purpose.

Tennessee Traumatic Brain Injury - Health Services Medical

To address the needs of those individuals who have sustained a brain injury, as well as their family members and primary caregivers. Traumatic Brain Injury Program staff are available to respond to questions, make referrals and provide education and prevention programs. The initial contact can be the first link in chain of support for a survivor or family member.

The Jason Foundation

Youth suicide claims the lives of approximately 100 young people per week in the United States. The Jason Foundation's mission is to provide information, tools, and resources to students, educators, youth workers, and parents that will enable early detection of at-risk behavior and guide them to helpful local resources.

The Team Centers, Inc.

The TEAM Centers, Inc. is a unique multi-specialty healthcare facility that provides services across the life-span of the individual, from early diagnosis treatment all the way through adulthood. This continuum of care gives families the hope they need in dealing with the complex and complicated realities of autism and other developmental disabilities. The Family Support Program improves the quality of the lives of families who have a member with a severe disability by providing funding for respite, medical equipment and supplies, etc., that they need to reside in their natural home.