Humanitarian Effort

Saving Little Hearts | www.savinglittlehearts.com

Saving Little Hearts is devoted to helping children with congenital heart defects and their families.

QE² is an annual sponsor of the Saving Little Hearts Putt Putt Golf tournament.

Volunteer Ministry Center | www.vmcknox.org

The Volunteer Ministry Center is a non-profit, interfaith agency serving the poor and homeless of Knoxville. Our mission is to restore dignity and productivity to the lives of the homeless, mentally ill and working poor by providing programs that help them achieve their highest level of self-sufficiency.

QE² is an annual sponsor and coordinator of the VMC Gift Collection Drive for the Holiday Store. The Holiday Store is a place where local families in need can purchase holiday gifts using points garnered by community service. QE² partners with WDVX radio for media support and furnishes labor and materials to collect gifts at area offices and businesses. Above, Executive Director Ginny Weatherstone accepts donations from Heath Shuler during a Gift Collection Drive event.

Compassion Coalition | www.compassioncoalition.org

We strive to walk alongside Knoxville-area churches who earnestly desire to slow down and respond to the cry of the suffering, the broken, and the abandoned within their congregations and out in the community. We believe that transformation begins to occur when churches prayerfully go out to serve existing ministries of compassion and justice already in the community, while also initiating and sustaining non-existing ministries both within and outside their membership.

QE² is a corporate outreach point for the Compassion Coalition's request for community services. Through the Compassion Coalition, QE² personnel donate their time to renovate and upgrade private homes in the Homes of Hope program, mentor at-risk adolescents and respond to emergency needs for personal assistance to those in need.