Save the Date! Thirteenth Annual Niswonger Foundation School Success Symposium Tuesday, June 19, 2018 ~ 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Niswonger Performing Arts Center And Greeneville High School Featured Speakers Liz Murray Inspirational Speaker and Best Selling Author Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness Survival and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard Cicely Woodard 2018 Tennessee […]
REGISTRATION WILL BEGIN MARCH 1 AT https://www.leadershiptennessee.org/summit
Sarah Douthat Alexis Harvey Jasmine Martin Aubrie Strange […]
Scott M. Niswonger, Chairman and Founder of the Niswonger Foundation announced the award of an “Education Innovation and Research” (EIR) Grant from the U.S. Department of Education. This grant, with the required matching funds, will provide more than eight million dollars to assist schools in Northeast Tennessee. Niswonger stated: “This is a day of tremendous […]
At a media event held at Hancock County Elementary School, the Niswonger Foundation and Hancock County Schools announced the Niswonger Foundation’s receipt of two significant grants that will focus on kindergarten through second grade literacy development at Hancock County Elementary. The goal of this effort is increasing third-grade reading proficiency. A $450,000 grant from the Walmart […]
In an interview by Niswonger Foundation Vice President, Richard Kitzmiller, we learned that Veronica Watson has spent most of her 2017 “summer break” as a volunteer in Niswonger/ETSU Code & Technology camps. After participating in summer camps for middle-schoolers in 2016, her interest and passion led her to volunteer to help (without pay) during the […]
Ben Fox, a native of Gray, Tennessee and a Niswonger Foundation Alumni, Class of 2009, was recently named the Head Coach at Maryville College. Ben is a graduate and former quarterback of Daniel Boone High School. He earned a degree in Business Administration from Washington University and an MBA from Bryant University. He was receivers […]
Scott M. Niswonger, Chairman and Founder of the Niswonger Foundation announced the award of an “Education Innovation and Research” (EIR) Grant from the U.S. Department of Education that will focus on educational opportunities in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). This five-year grant, with the required matching funds, will provide $8.8 million dollars to serve […]
Niswonger & ETSU 2017 Code & Technology Camps CLICK HERE TO REGISTER Girls in Science & Technology (GIST) Camps -June 12 – 16 (Rising 5th Graders) -June 26 – 30 (Rising 6th Graders) __________________________________ Advanced Code & Tech Camps (Advanced Java) -July 10 – 14 (Middle School) -July 17 – 21 (High School) (3D Printing/Drone/Imbedded Devices) – […]
Dr. Randy Wykoff and Scott Niswonger Story by: East Tennessee State University – University Relations JOHNSON CITY – For years, leaders in East Tennessee State University’s College of Public Health have utilized the ETSU Eastman Valleybrook campus in rural Washington County to teach students valuable skills – everything from making a brick from scratch to […]
The Niswonger Foundation was established in 2001 to make a positive and sustainable difference in education in Northeast Tennessee. This dream was envisioned by Scott M. Niswonger, who founded Landair Transport, Inc. and Forward Air Corporation. These companies were the first two Greeneville-based companies to be taken public in the history of Greene County, Tennessee. Jointly, the companies have combined annual revenue of over one-billion-dollars and employ more than 5000 people.
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