East Tennessee Community Design Center

created in 1970, the east tennessee community design center is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization that works with community groups in urban and rural east tennessee. the community design center organizes people, ideas and resources to facilitate positive change in economically distressed and isolated communities in the region. the sixteen tennessee counties served by the community design center are: anderson, blount, campbell, claiborne, cocke, grainger, hamblen, jefferson, knox, loudon, monroe, morgan, roane, scott, sevier and union.