ELFI offers solutions to help families, individuals and businesses reach their financial goals through student loan refinancing and private student loans. Our loan program is designed to assist a variety of borrowers. We know that every borrower has a different story and a different goal. With award winning customer service and over 30 years of experience in the student loan industry, our team knows what graduates need: -Affordable rates -Manageable payments -Flexible terms -No sign up fees -Competitive interest rates -Personalized payment plans ELFI for Business: ELFI helps individuals with student loan debt to refinance their loans, which can help them to save money, and pay off their debt sooner. In addition to working with student loan borrowers, we work hand-in-hand with businesses. We provide businesses the tools needed to attract and retain top talent. We offer them resources for student loan refinancing and the ability to provide employee contributions. Education Loan Finance is a division of Tennessee-based SouthEast Bank, designed to assist borrowers with student loan refinancing as well as with undergraduate, graduate and parent private student loans.

CUPA-HR is higher ed HR. We serve higher education by providing the knowledge, resources, advocacy and connections to achieve organizational and workforce excellence. As the association for HR professionals in higher education, CUPA-HR provides leadership on higher education workplace issues in the U.S. and abroad. We monitor trends, explore emerging workforce issues, conduct research and promote strategic discussions among colleges and universities. We provide opportunities for our members to connect with one another and to develop professionally by hosting conferences and webinars, publishing tools and resources, and offering online communities for collaboration. We also partner with other higher education and HR management associations to advocate on legislative and compliance issues that impact the higher ed workplace. Learn more at www.cupahr.org/about.

With more than 2,200 member businesses, the Knoxville Chamber serves as the collective, influential voice for the regional business community. We work to ensure East Tennessee is the premier location for businesses to locate, operate and expand by working toward our mission of Driving Regional Economic Prosperity. We Innovate: Our economic development team works to retain businesses in the region, help those companies expand and recruit new businesses to the Knoxville-Oak Ridge Innovation Valley. We Launch: With a strong regional entrepreneur and maker community, we work to keep Knoxville the perfect place for start-up companies to thrive. We Grow: Along with our local, state and federal partners, we offer a suite of services and resources designed to help businesses of all sizes succeed. We Lead: As the voice for the regional business community, we advocate for business-friendly policies and work to have a thoughtful impact on our community.

United Way of Greater Knoxville fights to improve the Health, Education, and Financial Stability of each and every person in our community. We support 119 programs across 56 agencies to ensure we help as many people as possible, in all the ways possible. UWGK raises money to meet the needs of our community. The money that is raised here, stays here - and helps over 100,000 Knoxvillians each year. With your help, we will continue to preserve key existing community relationships while forging new partnerships to properly identify core issues, share responsibilities, and ensure lasting, effective change. Change doesn't happen alone. To live better, we must LIVE UNITED.

East Tennessee Foundation is a public charity and community foundation created for the purpose of building charitable resources to make communities stronger and lives better through thoughtful giving.

The mission of your Boys & Girls Club of the Smoky Mountains is to INSPIRE and ENABLE all young people, especially THOSE WHO NEED US MOST, to fulfill their potential in becoming PRODUCTIVE, CARING & RESPONSIBLE citizens. Our goal is to provide all youth with the gifts of a world class Club experience that ASSURES SUCCESS is within reach of every young person who enters our doors, with all members ON TRACK TO GRADUATE high school with a PLAN FOR THE FUTURE, demonstrating GOOD CHARACTER and citizenship, and living a HEALTHY LIFESTYLE. For every hour a child spends in school, they spend two hours out of school. How they spend those out of school hours can significantly impact the path they take, especially for low income youth. We need to reach more Sevier County kids who are without after school and summer programming so we can break the cycle of poverty and guide them to become productive, caring and responsible adults.

Established in 2001, the Niswonger Foundation has a mission “To create opportunities for individual and community growth through education and other sustainable projects.” The Foundation’s focus is supporting K-12 educational excellence and the Niswonger Scholars - Scholarship and Leadership program. With the motto of “Learn-Earn-Return,” the programs of the Foundation are supported by charitable donations, grant funding and personal contributions from Scott M. Niswonger.

GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN COUNCIL, INC., BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA is a company based out of 1333 OLD WEISGARBER RD, KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, United States.

Wears Valley Ranch is a Christ-centered home and school for children from difficult situations they did not create. The Ranch is a safe haven for children in crisis. Our vision is to see each child INSPIRED to follow Christ, HEALED from the past, and EQUIPPED to reach their full potential.