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Chattanooga Knows: Through the years with the Ochs Community Fund
Imagine this: Your life is going along splendidly, until one day, you suddenly fall ill and require hospitalization.
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‘Every single bit counts’: Here’s how the Ochs Community Fund changed four lives in the Chattanooga area
Starting at Thanksgiving each year, the Chattanooga Times Free Press conducts a philanthropic campaign, appealing to its readers to contribute funds that will support people in need.
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Longtime donor to Ochs Community Fund talks why she gives
MJ Levine, a Chattanooga resident from Dallas, considers herself to be a consummate volunteer.
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‘Need has not declined’: Chattanooga nonprofits see decline in giving since pandemic
On any given day, three or four people will come to Phil Trammell looking for nonprofit advice.
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About half of Tennessee’s children live in families facing financial hardship
Those households often don't qualify for public assistance, and they sometimes have to make difficult decisions about which bills to pay on a month-to-month basis.
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It took just $37 to keep one Chattanoogan from becoming homeless again
For the past 110 years, Chattanooga-area residents in financial need have found help from readers of the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
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Each day is a new day to help somebody, longtime United Way employee says
Each day is a new day to help somebody.
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Ochs Community Fund covered rent for single mother, disabled son
Single mother Kayneasha Smith devoted her life to her son after a car struck and paralyzed the 6-year-old while he was crossing the street in 2009. Since then, Smith has juggled work and education while ensuring her son, her top priority, feels loved.
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Annual Neediest Cases campaign renamed Ochs Community Fund
Every Thanksgiving, the Chattanooga Times Free Press launches its Neediest Cases campaign, an annual appeal to readers during the holiday season to provide assistance to people in need.
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Opinion: You can offer a hand at a time ‘when Want is keenly felt’
Americans were living well in 1924.
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From the editor: Times Free Press Neediest Cases fund gets a new name
For more than a century, Chattanoogans have generously donated money to the Neediest Cases fund every holiday season.
