Community Chest Click link for more info All Garments $1.00, or Less
Community Chest-Knoxville is a not-for-profit clothing and small household items shop serving all, but focusing service to those in distressed situations and to those with low incomes. Located Inside Northwest FISH Hospitality Pantry/food warehouse facility: 122 W. Scott Ave.
Knoxville, TN 37917
(Half block off Central Avenue) Phone: 971-4417 Open: Monday thru Saturday
10 AM - 5 PM
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Fish Hospitality Pantries

More Than Food

Rather than being concerned with who is deserving, FISH Hospitality Pantries responds with respect to anyone who asks for food. We seek to nourish both the bodies and the spirits of those we serve.

FISH Hospitality Pantries provides more packages of food to hungry Knoxvillians than all other Knoxville pantries combined.

Learn more about what we do.

Property for Parking Project

FOR SCOTT AVENUE PANTRY

We are fortunate at our Northwest Pantry/Food Warehouse to have plenty of space for food storage, but the parking for guests and volunteers is severely inadequate. Often our guests are so desperate to park and get in that they end up blocking access to surrounding businesses. This has caused some conflict between the pantry and local business owners. We try to be good neighbors--we have worked with the city on signage, and we have placed traffic cones and barrels in certain areas, but the problem persists. Many of the 600 people who come to this pantry for food each day must park a good distance away and walk, and this poses a major problem to disabled guests and mothers with small children and arms of heavy food bags.


We have raised the funds and have purchased two properties across from the Northwest Pantry for additional vehicle parking for our volunteers and guests coming for food assistance.

The next phase of this project is to raise the funds needed to develop the combined properties into a paved parking area. If you would like to help please contact us through e-mail (click) or at 865-588-9200.

We hope to complete the "Property for Parking" project by March 2013.

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FISH Hospitality Pantry @ Scott Ave.

FISH Hospitality Pantries

FISH Hospitality Pantries (a.k.a. Hospitality Pantries, Inc.) operates four pantries in East, South, Northwest and West Knoxville. We currently provide food to more than 11,000 families every month.

FISH focuses on what more can be done to help ensure that everyone gets enough to eat.
   
In Knox County 57,000 people live in poverty -- more than 25% of them are children. Thousands of other families live near the poverty line and struggle for the basic necessities of live. The number of families who come to our pantries has more than doubled in the last two years. Learn more about  who we are or how people can get help.

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Learn how your monthly contribution of just $5 can make a
difference in helping to end hunger in our community.


Canopied Pavilion

NEW CANOPIED PAVILION
HAS BEEN COMPLETED
FOR THE SCOTT AVENUE PANTRY

In keeping with our values for treating our guests with respect and increasing their accessibility to our pantries, we have added a canopied pavilion on the east end of our Northwest Pantry/ Warehouse Facility to provide shelter for our guests.

Soon after 7 am, people begin to line up to await the 10 am Northwest Knoxville Pantry opening. The new canopy pavilion provides shelter from the sun and rain for the many hundreds of guests coming for food assistance each day to our Northwest Pantry. It also allows for large donations of fresh fruits and vegetables to now be distributed outside in all weather conditions.

Thank you to all who contributed to the successful completion of this project.