Our featured program is the Career Readiness Program, where we recruit young adults primarily 18-24 and host an 8 week program that teaches life skills, job skills, and placement skills. This program feeds our 4 week Community Engagement and Green Construction Bootcamps, where we provide intensive on-the-job training for young adults to gain employment in our community engagement department or green construction department.

We are located in the Morningside Community Center and engage with Knoxville’s underserved communities and individuals through Community Engagement initiatives. Community Engagement is one of SEEED’s social enterprises. Community engagement specialists go out in the community to bring valuable information on resources and gather information to bring to partner organizations. SEEED serves as a liaison between government/community organizations and community members that may not have access to them otherwise.

SEEED recently created the social enterprise of green construction; a venture into the world of affordable, innovative, energy-efficient homes created for low-income families. Currently SEEED is in the process of selling the “mustard seed house,” where a solar-powered, energy-efficient home was built in the Lonsdale community and sold to a low-income family to create generational wealth and pathways out of poverty for community members.

Our Edible Forest in located in the back of our organization and consists of 14 raised garden beds and 5 fruit trees, which are free to local residents. Our organization plants new produce each year during our Earth Day celebration and invites our community to be apart of this initiative to help increase food security in our community.