TVA volunteers Laura McDade, Ben Wildman, and Gary Mazo paused for only a moment to take a picture
More than 150 TVA employees came to the Chambliss Center for Children campus on Friday for their Combined Federal Campaign Day of Caring. This marked the 21st year TVA has chosen to do a Day of Caring at the agency.
It was a beautiful day so these highly-skilled volunteers completed nearly all 75 tasks on the agency’s wish list. Volunteers tackled interior projects such as cleaning, painting, replacing ceiling tiles and organizing closets. Exterior projects included cleaning and carpeting steps, mulching, pressure washing, construction projects and clearing trees.
“This Day of Caring is a huge benefit to our agency,” said Katie Harbison, vice president of Development and Administration for Chambliss Center for Children. “These highly-skilled volunteers get an entire year’s worth of projects completed in one day. This saves us a great amount of money, as we would otherwise have to hire out many of these jobs.”
Founded in 1872 by women from five area churches, the Chambliss Center for Children is a local non-profit organization that has been caring for Chattanooga-area children 24-hours-a-day, 365-days-a-year for 144 years. The mission of the agency is to preserve family unity and to help prevent the dependency, neglect, abuse and delinquency of children by responding to the community’s child care needs. This is done by providing affordable, accessible and quality care through an Extended Early Childhood Education Program, as well as a Residential Program, which recruits and trains foster families and has a group home for children in state custody. In addition to these two programs, the agency also manages five off-site childcare centers and educates and cares for the children of teachers in eleven Hamilton County Schools. Overall, Chambliss Center for Children is caring for more than 650 children throughout the community every day.
For more information, visit www.chamblisscenter.org or call 423 698-2456.
Chambliss Center for Children board member and TVA employee Dan Pratt (right) is pictured with TVA employee Jamie Bach