The Knoxville-Knox County Community Action Committee will be celebrating 60 years of work in the community with an open house on November 7, 2024, 4-7 p.m. at CAC Ross Building, 2247 Western Avenue.
The celebration will have presentations at 4:30 and 5:45 to recognize the history and impact of CAC’s work in Knoxville-Knox County throughout the past 60 years.
CAC has a 60-year legacy of helping people and families in need. That’s 60 years of helping people and families reach their full potential with life-changing services like housing support, nutritious meals for isolated seniors, job skills training, early childhood education and more!
The passage of the Economic Opportunity Act in 1964 paved the way for the creation of Community Action Agencies across the nation. In President Lyndon Johnson’s words Community Action would, “strike poverty at its source — in the streets of our cities and on the farms of our countryside…” The enduring effect of the bill is shown in the lives of the millions of people impacted by the services its passage has brought into counties all over the United States including Knox County.
