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Volunteers

KCD partners with several volunteer organizations. These organizations help KCD with fund raising projects and various tasks around the center. The Delta Zeta Sorority of the University of Tennessee (UT), SODA (Student Organization on Deaf Awareness) at UT, the Deaf Senior Citizens and church groups such as InAsMuch and Team Effort.

 

Delta Zeta

DeltaZeta

Delta Zeta is a national sorority at the University of Tennessee. They have picked KCD as their primary beneficiary. They raise money to help with the Deaf Youth Leadership Program and conduct special projects at KCD.

 

SODA

SODA is a UT student organization. SODA is an acronym for Student Organization on Deaf Awareness. The students are deaf education and interpreting majors and have picked KCD to help by raising money and working around the Center.

 

InAsMuch

InAsMuch is a coalition of local churches led by First Baptist Church. One Saturday a year they fan out across Knoxville doing projects. For three straight years they have selected KCD to do cleaning and building projects. Each spring Knoxville Inner City Churches United for People (KICCUP), currently comprised of 12 member churches, pick one Saturday to reach out and witness through service projects in the surrounding community. KICCUP coordinates both human and supply resources to lovingly serve others in need who are nominated by members of the individual KICCUP churches or located through community-wide service agencies.  The projects chosen are advertised in the KICCUP churches over several weeks. Individuals, families and groups from the KICCUP churches sign up to tackle each project by donating their time, and quite often materials, to complete the project on that Saturday. Sometimes the projects cannot be completed in one day's time, and the KICCUP volunteers will continue to donate their time and talents until a particular project is finished.

 

Team Effort

 TE is a national missionary organization based corporately in Gainesville, GA. Each summer they set up youth group mission activities at 25 different locations around the country. KCD was chosen to be a TE site and was the beneficiary of the good work of approximately 300 high school students from seven different states spread out over five weeks. The students re-painted KCD, built a new shed out back and also did repair and cleaning work to ten deaf and deaf-blind homes in greater Knoxville.