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Friends of Volunteer Tennessee Encouraging volunteerism and community service in Tennessee WHO WE ARE Friends of Volunteer Tennessee is a 501c3 nonprofit organization created to support the programs and services of Volunteer Tennessee including fundraising managing donations overseeing grants training services and supporting the Tennessee Conference on Volunteerism and ServiceLearning and the Governors Volunteer Stars Awards. What is volunteer tennessee. The mission of Volunteer Tennessee is to encourage volunteerism and community service. Volunteer Tennessee is the 25member bipartisan citizen board appointed by the Governor to oversee AmeriCorps programs manage the Tennessee Serves Network promote servicelearning opportunities and foster community service initiatives and partnerships in which people of all ages and backgrounds engage in addressing the educational public safety environmental and other human needs in the Volunteer State.