Mount Rest Foundation Fund of East Tennessee Foundation Announces Grants

Thursday August 28, 2008
Awards Over $120,000 in Support of Knox County Organizations

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - East Tennessee Foundation (ETF) announces the recipients of the 2008 Mount Rest Foundation Fund grants program. Twenty-one area nonprofit organizations have been awarded grants totaling more than $120,000 to support programs which benefit women and children throughout Knox County.

The 2008 recipients will be offering a vast array of projects or programs that address one of the following issues which impact women and/or children of Knoxville and Knox County: nutrition, health and well-being, education and/or training for employment.

Grants from the Mount Rest Foundation Fund of East Tennessee Foundation have been awarded to the following: Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tennessee Valley, Inc, Boys and Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Valley, Child and Family Tennessee, Crutcher Memorial Youth Enrichment Center, East Tennessee Children's Hospital, Friends of Tennessee's Babies with Special Needs, Helen Ross McNabb Center, Inc., Hospitality Pantries, Inc., InterFaith Health Clinic, Knoxville-Knox County Community Action Committee, Knoxville-Knox County Council on Aging, The Ladies of Charity, Lisa Ross Birth and Women's Center, Mental Health Association of East Tennessee, Montgomery Village Child Development Center, Montgomery Village Ministries, National Alliance of the Mentally Ill of Knoxville, Partners for Children, Inc., Salvation Army, Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee, and YWCA of Knoxville. For further grant recipient information, please see provided list.

Mount Rest Home began in 1894 as a residence for elderly ladies who had very little funds or family to care for them. The devoted women of the board of Mount Rest Home raised funds to support the home and they tended to every need of the house and the ladies who lived there. The women of Mount Rest Home continued to provide for the welfare of women and children in Knox County by establishing the Mount Rest Foundation in 1994. The Mount Rest  Foundation Fund of East Tennessee Foundation was established in 2004 to secure their families' legacy of caring for Knox County's women and children.

East Tennessee Foundation, established in 1986, is a regional community foundation serving 25 counties in East Tennessee. The Foundation serves East Tennessee by building endowments, providing services to donors and making grants to programs and projects that benefit this region and its people.

For more information, please contact Jan Elston, Senior Program Officer, via phone at (865)524-1223 or e-mail at jelston@etf.org.

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