Our purpose is to provide a regional approach in addressing key issues vital to all East Tennesseans, to discover and promote the available resources that are actively working to improve the region, to create a network of concerned leaders through which information can be effectively channeled to and utilized by the existing leadership programs and to the increasing number of leadership graduates in the East Tennessee area and to develop recommendations for constructive actions in resolving needs.

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