A Program of the Knoxville-Knox County Community Action Committee
Article Author: Jason Scott, CAC AmeriCorps Program DirectorCAC AmeriCorps Alum, Sarah Murray, served in the 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 Corps of CAC AmeriCorps with the University of Tennessee’s Sustainability program. I had the opportunity to speak with Sarah on Thursday, January 19th, 2023 about her new social enterprise, Concerted, which seeks to connect people to service and each other by allowing individuals to trade volunteer service hours for concert tickets.
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Christine Doka, CAC AmeriCorps Member & VISTA Leader 2015-2016, 2016-2017, and 2017-2018 in collaboration with Hannah Freeman, CAC AmeriCorps VISTA member 2017-2018.
With a small staff but mighty power, the City of Knoxville’s Office of Neighborhoods is always looking for new and creative ways to engage community members to organically bring about the change they want to see. I had the opportunity to sit down with their current VISTA member, Hannah Freeman, to discuss how she has begun to make an impact through the Office of Neighborhoods in Knoxville.
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Ariel Allen , CAC AmeriCorps Staff and Alum 2014- 2015
Frank Callo joined CAC AmeriCorps in 2006 as a father, a gardening advocate and recent grad. Four years later his son, Matt Callo, would literally follow in his dirt-stained footsteps. I sat down with father and son and asked about their experience with CAC AmeriCorps and Beardsley Farm.
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Jason R. Scott, Town of Farragut, Stormwater Coordinator, Site Supervisor
AmeriCorps changed my life. Nearly 10 years after my first term of AmeriCorps service, I can still say, without hesitation, I am the person I am today because of the unexpected opportunities I experienced because of this program. This narrative is an account of how AmeriCorps allowed me to weave a thread of purpose through service over nearly a decade of my life.