Bicentennial Volunteers, Inc.
Connecting People with Purpose., Community., Resources., Service., Opportunities.
Bicentennial Volunteers, Inc. is the collective term for three related non-profit organizations – BVI, National Emergency Assistance (NEA) and Retiree Resources Corporation (RRC). We provide Tennessee Valley Authority retirees and former TVA employees with the opportunity to get involved in volunteer work, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) work and TVA contract work.
Bicentennial Volunteers, Inc.
BVI offers an opportunity to volunteer at the Visitor Centers at Fontana Dam, Kentucky Dam, Norris Dam, and Raccoon Mountain Pumped Storage Facility along with a variety of other volunteer opportunities.
National Emergency Assistance, Inc.
FEMA relies on NEA employees to augment their disaster assistance endeavors all over the United States.
Retiree Resources Corporation
Many TVA retirees and former employees are working through RRC to provide temporary staff augmentation to TVA.
We seek to make an impact in our Tennessee Valley community through the following efforts each year
STEM grants given to Tennessee Valley teachers
Visitors to the TVA Visitor Centers
Tennessee Valley Robotics Teams entered into competitions
RRC employees supporting TVA through staff augmentation
NEA employees deployed to disaster areas
Retirees doing projects to help improve their communities
What’s New?
Gone fishing: TVA retirees teach kids how to fish
Over 70 kids descended the stairs from the parking lot anxious to bait hooks, cast reels and wear waders on June 8, as part of the Kids Fish Free day sponsored by Tennessee Valley Authority and the Knoxville Chapter of the TVA Retirees Association, Bicentennial...
CADNet: Three decades of growing our workforce
In the fall of 1994, Shane Bales was one of three students from Gibbs High school in Knoxville, Tennessee, helping to pilot a unique new TVA opportunity: learn computer-aided drafting (CAD) while providing part-time paid services to TVA and receiving class credit....
Looking for skilled craft support? Safety and quality are the keys with new Regional Maintenance organization
Just in time for planned outages across the fleet, TVA’s new Regional Maintenance organization is adding skilled craft people to our workforce who can quickly fill needed roles and help maintain timelines. “We asked stakeholders in a variety of maintenance positions...
Protecting the public: Recognizing Dam Safety Awareness Day
Bernie Auld, TVA Senior Program Manager, is part of a 50-person team responsible for the safety and structural integrity of TVA’s dams. “It's our job to protect the public,” Bernie said. “As an engineer, there are design standards that you go by, but your main focus...
Powered for Summer
TVA Prepared for Hot Weather How do you know summer has arrived? Memorial Day weekend? The last day of school? The first evening you see a firefly? For the Tennessee Valley Authority, it arrives with the completion of spring outage season. That’s when TVA’s equipment...
The Water, the Weir and the Island
Hibbs Island Rebuild Helps River Biodiversity Towering walls of crafted concrete, Tennessee Valley Authority dams changed lives. They stopped catastrophic flooding, electrified the region and created reservoirs in which people could play. But that’s not the whole...