Each day is a new day to help somebody.
That’s how Tim Chavis looks at his job as 211 senior manager for the United Way of Greater Chattanooga. Having worked for the United Way for nearly 40 years, Chavis loves helping people, and even after all these decades, he is still excited to be doing his job, he said in a phone interview.
Chavis is a product of Chattanooga, born and raised here and having attended Central High School, Chattanooga State Community College and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Helping people began at an early age. His mother had him help the older adults in his neighborhood, whether it was going to the store or paying bills, even when he really wanted to go play basketball, he said.
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But helping people stuck with Chavis, so he pursued social work.