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Tag Archives: faith-based

Weekly update 7-6-2010

July 6, 2010 – 2:47 pm

Summary is at the top of this update. It is expanded below.
1. Flenniken Housing: Parking variance request withdrawn. Southeastern Housing Foundation, the TYP’s nonprofit real estate development partner and developer of proposed permanent supportive housing at the old Flenniken School, has withdrawn its request for a zoning variance that would have permitted a smaller parking [...]

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Circles of Support nears its first birthday

September 16, 2009 – 3:38 pm

Today’s Sentinel carries Brandon Lowe’s article about Circles of Support, the Compassion Coalition’s faith-based mentoring program for the previously chronically homeless.
Lowe’s piece is focused on Marjorie Lopes, a woman who used to be chronically homeless and who now resides at Guy B. Love Towers, a KCDC property that houses several people who have left chronic [...]

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Faith-based mentoring program is underway

September 3, 2008 – 1:14 pm

We welcome Jessica Bocángel to her new position as the Faith-Based Mentoring Program Coordinator for the Compassion Coalition. The City of Knoxville published this press release yesterday, and the Sentinel covered her story today.
The Ten-Year Plan is beginning its third year in Knoxville and Knox County. Knoxville’s faith community has been serving people who are [...]

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