Community members invited to attend 2月. 23 Nonprofit Fair at Maryville College

2月. 15, 2023

的 Maryville College Nonprofit Leadership Alliance (NLA) will host its annual Nonprofit Fair on Thursday, 2月23日, in the William Baxter Lee III Grand Foyer of the Clayton Center for the Arts.

Members of the public are invited to attend the event, which takes place from noon to 3 p.m., in order to learn about nonprofit missions, service and volunteer opportunities, 实习, and employment. 的re is no cost to attend the fair.

Approximately 40 East Tennessee nonprofit organizations will be in attendance, including A Place to Stay, Girl Scout Council of the Southern Appalachians, 年轻的生命, Good Neighbors of Blount County, Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center, Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont and Youth Villages. 

“We hope everyone will find an organization that shares their passions — from children to the environment to health care — and also has opportunities to share their skills, whether they be in accounting or gardening or mentoring,” 艾米Gilliland, director of community engagement at Maryville College. “This is an exciting event for our campus and community. Our students can network and explore career and community engagement opportunities, and it’s also a way for our community members to explore many ways to get involved and give back.”

的 fair is an annual event for the College’s Center for Community Engagement and is planned by students in the Maryville College Nonprofit Leadership Alliance (NLA) program. Proceeds from the agency registration fees help NLA students prepare for professional careers in nonprofit management.

For more information, contact Gilliland at 865-981-8122 or 艾米.gilliland@queroficarfamoso.com.

Maryville College is a nationally-ranked institution of higher learning and one of America’s oldest colleges. For more than 200 years, we’ve educated students to be giving citizens and gifted leaders, to study everything, so that they are prepared for anything — to address any problem, engage with any audience and launch successful careers right away. 位于 Maryville, Tennessee，在 Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the city of 诺克斯维尔, Maryville College offers nearly 1,200  students from around the world both the beauty of a rural setting and the advantages of an urban center, as well as more than 60 majors, seven pre-professional programs and career preparation from their first day on campus to their last. 今天, 我们10,000 alumni are living life strong of mind and brave of heart and are prepared, in the words of our Presbyterian founder, to “do good on the largest possible scale.”