The Knoxville City Council approves a resolution that would unlock $150,000 to nonprofits and organizations focused on revitalizing East Knoxville.

That money would be provided through a grant from the city’s African American equity restoration task force which was established by the council in 2020. The resolution will split the money among eighteen groups who applied for the grant.

Here’s how the proposal breaks that funding down:

• UNNIK Academy: $25,000.00
• Renaissance Creations: $15,000.00
• New Direction Health Care: $20,000.00
• The Women, LLC: $10,000.00
• SEEED: $5,000.00
• Girl Talk, Inc.: $10,000.00
• East TN Freedom Schools: $10,000.00
• C.O.N.N.E.C.T. Ministries: $5,000.00
• Gennisi Charitable Birth Services: $5,000.00
• East TN Housing Development Corp: $5,000.00
• Evergreen Community Development Corp: $5,000.00
• National Coalition of 100 Black Women: $5,000.00
• Closer Walk Re-entry: $5,000.00
• A1 Learning Connections: $5,000.00
• The Bottom: $5,000.00
• YoStem!: $5,000.00
• Drums Up Guns Down: $5,000.00
• Karate 5: $5,000

City Council also approved the first reading of a proposal that would rezone the Sunsphere as a historic building.

This would not change its base zoning classification. The Sunsphere is back open after construction was being done on its observation deck.