Community Contribution Program
KTC Now Accepting Applications for CHKM’s 2025 Community Partner!
The Knoxville Track Club (KTC) is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization. The annual Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon is KTC’s primary fundraiser. To help produce this event, KTC relies on the partnership of many like-minded community partners. If your organization has a mission of community wellness, fitness, and/or engaging youth in athletics, we are interested in speaking with your organization.
Since 2005, KTC has donated over $250,000 to local non-profits through the Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon’s community contribution program. Looking ahead to the 2025 Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon, KTC will select one local non-profit organization before the event to be its 2025 CHKM Community Partner. The 2025 CHKM Community Partner will receive the community contribution funds from the 2025 Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon as well as valuable tools, insight, and connections to establish a targeted fundraising campaign. In return, KTC asks that the 2025 CHKM Community Partner offer its skills and resources to support event-specific operations.
New applications must be submitted by all interested non-profit organizations each year. To apply to be the 2025 CHKM Community Partner, applications must be received by August 15, 2024. The selection will be made in September 2024 and announced soon thereafter. To view the application, click here.
The Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon and the Knoxville Track Club have a long-standing history of reinvesting in the community. From 2005 – 2024, $200,000 has been contributed to support projects such as mile markers for local city and county greenways, land acquisition and building trails in South Knoxville’s Urban Wilderness, and a golf cart to patrol and clean the greenways. Past recipients include Boys & Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Valley, East Tennessee Children’s Hospital, Legacy Parks Foundation, Young-Williams Animal Center, Ijams Nature Center, YWCA of Knoxville and the Tennessee Valley, Knox County Schools, The Muse Knoxville, Knoxville Family Justice Center, Survivor Fitness Foundation, Tennessee Beauty Hunters, Emerald Youth Foundation, and Keep Knoxville Beautiful. An additional $54,000 has been given to the Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center Innovative Recreation Cooperative, which encourages people with disabilities to pursue leisure and sports activities including hand cycling, which is one of the races in the Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon.
In addition to our Community Contribution Program, we are proud to partner with the following charities for the Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon.
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Valley: We are proud to have supported Boys & Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Valley since 2007. Extra medals and shirts are donated to the BGCTNV for awards and prizes for the children. To learn more about them, please click below.
Second Harvest Food Bank: Every year after the Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon, we donate excess food and drinks to Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee. To learn more about Second Harvest, click below.
Knox Area Rescue Ministries: Every year after the Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon, we donate leftover clothing food at the start line or along the course to Knox Area Rescue Ministries. To learn more about KARM, click below.