About
Community Involvement
The Trinity Health Foundation is honored to provide support to our community through various funding avenues. Trinity provides scholarship opportunities to nursing students through Carson-Newman and Lincoln Memorial Universities.
Trinity’s primary focus of support centers on its commitment to the nonprofit community through the Phase I and Phase II grant processes.
Silver Lamp
Annually, Trinity has honored two healthcare professionals who exhibit excellence in their medical field of interest. Each recipient receives a $2500 scholarship to use toward continuing education. Twelve area hospitals select and recommend exemplary recipients for this award. The chosen recipients and hospital administrators are honored at the annual Silver Lamp Awards Dinner. The Silver Lamp Awards program was discontinued in 2025 due to a depletion of funds. Trinity is grateful for the many exemplary healthcare professionals who have made a lasting impact on the healthcare community over the years.
Blake Scholarship and Kessel Scholarship
Trinity awards Blake Scholarships to nursing students from Carson-Newman University and nursing and medical technology students from Lincoln Memorial University. Each university selects students who must be in the final two years of their program. They use the award to complete their degree. Each recipient receives a $5,000 scholarship. In addition to the Blake Scholarship, a Dwight and Gloria Kessel Scholarship will be awarded to one student from Carson-Newman and Lincoln Memorial Universities.
Grant Process
To date, Trinity has granted over 424 projects and funded over $15.1 million. These projects include but are not limited to, a soccer complex providing inner-city youth the opportunity to compete, telepsychiatry systems for outer county youth evaluations, dental clinics in rural locations, homes for veterans, long-term respite care and shelter for our unhoused neighbors, multi-generational playspaces, safe homes for trafficked minors, and scores of other projects that remain in effect today. Trinity has been privileged to support various nonprofit organizations serving East Tennessee.