617 Deery St.
Knoxville, TN
37917
Phone: 865-249-8058
info_globalseeds.org
Global Seeds is a 501-c3 non-profit organization. We exist to equip Muslim communities where education and economic advancement are their greatest felt needs.
Call or come by any time you're in Knoxville! Our offices are in a hundred-year-old victorian home located in the downtown neighborhood of Historic Fouth and Gill.
We'd love to give you a tour!
865-249-8058
Global SEEDS seeks to empower women, men, and children through creative educational endeavors across the globe.
In Knoxville, Global SEEDS' Urban Oasis offers adult literacy and job training for Iraqi refugees, teaching English as a second language, as well as Civics, Values Education, Computer Education, and conversational English. Urban Oasis also offers a job placement service to help with interviewing skills, as well as basic application and resume completion skills.
Urban Oasis also runs an Early Childhood Learning Center, providing preschool education and care to the children of the Iraqi refugees. This offers emotional and educational support to the children, as well as opportunites for their mothers to be empowered as never before.
In Columbus Ohio, the McKendree English Center focuses upon the felt needs of East Africans who desire a professional level of English. The Center also provides education in the areas of Civics, Computer Education, and Values Education through creative storying.
In Central Asia, Global SEEDS helps to oversee a Non-Government Organization that is dedicated to helping rural communities secure pure water, better education, and peace and reconcilliation for their children.
Emily
Coordinator of Creative Resources
Provides direction and inspiration in cutting edge creativity and application for a post-modern world.
Dorothy
Associate Director of Foundational Alliances
Provides practical solutions to complex challenges by providing guidance and oversight of the organizations's legal and financial commitments.
Dan
Director
Provides vision for the organization by analyzing issues and developing creative strategies to promote community solutions.
Roy
Coordinator of Resource Mobilization
Provides oversight of logistical needs of the organization and its members by problem solving through research and facilitating best practices.
Mary
Associate Director of Partner Care
Provides emotional oversight to the membership of the organization by assessing the needs of members and developing action plans to address identified issues.
The Global SEEDS Administrative Team (GSAT) exists to oversee GS partners. GSAT uses on-site mentoring and modeling to facilitate intentional community among their members, interns, and volunteers in Knoxville. They empower the community to be equipped to live cross-culturally among communities where networking is a strong value.
We're always looking for like-minded volunteers and friends!
Whether it's teaching, picking up a paintbrush, or baking a pie, we would love to find a place for your skills to be used to change people's lives forever.
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Our organization is funded by the donations of generous individuals, businesses, and civic groups across the world. Because we're a 501-c3 Non-Profit Organization, all donations are tax deductible.
Your decision to give is a precious one. We know that it isn't easy.
Thank you!
