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.

Upcoming Events
FISH Hospitality Pantry @ Scott Ave.

Canopied Pavilion

NEW CANOPIED PAVILION PLANNED
FOR SCOTT AVENUE PANTRY

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

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.


FISH Hospitality Pantries Bread and Art
presents The Hungry Heart

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(or right-click and choose "Save As/Save Target As" to download) FISH Hospitality Pantries Bread and Art presents The Hungry Heart, a play written by FISH Hospitality Pantries Community Organizer, Beth Carroll Hunley, based on real experiences of volunteers and guests at the Northwest FISH Hospitality Pantry. This performance incorporates drama, dance, music, and song, and draws from real life stories of hunger and poverty and the changing dynamics of the South. The play is set at the Northwest FISH Hospitality Pantry, and illustrates the creation of community across race, ethnicity, culture, religion, and economic circumstances and language barriers.

On August 18th and 21st, FISH Hospitality Pantries is partnering with the Carpetbag Theatre to produce the piece as part of the “Homegrown in the Garden” Project in Knoxville. This community performance will include both professional actors and community residents. It will be presented on the stage of the Stone Green House at the Knoxville Botanical Garden & Arboretum at 2743 Wimpole Avenue, five minutes from downtown Knoxville. Directions to the Botanical Garden are available on the web site KNOXGARDEN.ORG.

Generous support for the development and production of The Hungry Heart is provided by the  East Tennessee Foundation Arts Fund, and also from  Alternate Roots.


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"Freezer For Food" Campaign Achieves Goal

Update:  We are celebrating completion of the new freezer project. Donations for the $175,000 freezer project continued to arrive to the extent that in June 2011 we were able to pay off the last of the balance due the freezer construction loan. We were able to have funding completed in less than one year after the new 1200 sq ft freezer became operational. In this economy, this is amazing.