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Funded Projects

CURCI funds multiple community collaborative projects each academic year. To date, CURCI has worked with many community organizations in Knoxville and has funded a variety of projects.

CURCI community and UTK partners at a CURCI cohort meeting.

CURCI Partnered Community Organizations

  • Cattywampus Puppet Council
  • Community Defense of East Tennessee
  • Centro Hispano de East Tennessee
  • Compost Project with Various Partners
  • Drums Up, Guns Down
  • East Tennessee Equality Council (Knox Pride)
  • East Tennessee Freedom Schools
  • Grow Partnership Tennessee
  • Hellbender Harm Reduction
  • Institute of Cooperative Learning
  • Knoxville HEART (Healing East Tennessee Alternative Response Team)
  • The Knoxville-Oak Ridge Central Labor Council
  • Knoxville Water and Energy for All
  • Little Chefs, Big Change
  • The Lotus Program
  • Nourish Knoxville
  • One Knoxville Collective
  • Renounce Denounce Gang Intervention Program (RDGIP)
  • Rooted East Knoxville Collective
  • Shora Foundation
  • Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment (SOCM)
  • Tennessee School for the Deaf
  • The Bottom
  • The Knoxville Voter Turnout Coalition
  • Turn Up Knox
  • Women With Vision
  • Youth Outreach in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (Yo-STEM)

Project Descriptions by Year

2025-2026

2024-2025

2023-2024

2022-2023