Vision: “A just, compassionate, and thriving community for all.”
Mission: “To organize diverse people to build and use their people power to solve community problems.”
We engage in listening, research, direct action and follow up to solve problems at their roots. We take on problems like the affordable housing crisis, needs in our mental health care system, problems facing our schools, inadequate public transportation and community gun violence.
Every spring Justice Knox organizes the largest public meeting in the community. The goal of this assembly is to get public officials to commit to concrete actions to solve some of the worst problems plaguing Knox County. On April 9 of this year, 1177 Justice Knox leaders gathered at the Knoxville Civic Auditorium with Mayor Jacobs, Mayor Kincannon, Director of the Office of Housing Stability and School Board Members Butler, Bike and Watson. That night we secured commitments from both Mayors to set aggressive goals to end homelessness in our community and from school board members around accountability for tracking student outcomes .
On April 9, we packed the Civic Auditorium with for justice! With that powerful Assembly gathered, we secured important commitments from Mayor Kincannon, Mayor Jacobs
What a turnout! Justice Knox leaders filled the main room and the overflow room of the school board meeting in February and again in March
Justice Knox worked with both Mayors, their staff, and Erin Read, the director of the new joint office of housing stability to bring more than
Established in 2016, Justice Knox provides congregations from diverse faith, economic, and racial backgrounds from across Knox County a vehicle to act together in response to the scriptural mandate to “do justice.” We are politically non-partisan. We are inspired by the work of 30 broad-based justice ministry organizations in other cities.