Bicentennial Volunteers, Inc.
Connecting People with Purpose., Community., Resources., Service., Opportunities.
Bicentennial Volunteers, Inc. (BVI) is a nonprofit organization that oversees two affiliated nonprofits: National Emergency Assistance (NEA) and Retiree Resources Corporation (RRC). Together, these organizations offer Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) retirees and former employees opportunities to engage in volunteer service, support FEMA disaster recovery efforts, and participate in 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?
TVA Board Highlights Growth & Investment
Feb 13, 2025 – click above to read more…
The TVA Board of Directors met earlier today for their regularly scheduled quarterly meeting in the Knoxville Office Complex Auditorium. The meeting reinforced TVA’s commitment to investing in our power system to ensure affordable, reliable and resilient power for the 10 million people of the Valley region.
REAL ID
Feb 12, 2025 – click above to read more…
Beginning May 7, 2025, the REAL ID Act goes into effect. At that time, U.S. citizens 18 years of age or older will be required to have a REAL ID to board domestic flights and access certain federal facilities, including nuclear power plants.
TVA will begin implementing REAL ID requirements at non-nuclear sites in a phased approach with full implementation required by May 5, 2027.
Team Up to Clean Up
Feb 19, 2025 – click above to read more…
Multiagency Debris Removal Effort Underway at Douglas Reservoir
On a steel-gray winter afternoon in east Tennessee, the sun sliced through clouds to cast Douglas Reservoir’s drawn-down shores in gold.
Skid-steer loaders beeped and zoomed across the bare earth in the distance. They carried load after load of logs, unceasing as they built a high pile of wood.
“The big 320, from this distance, looks small,” Alex McClain, Tennessee Valley Authority field supervisor, said, nodding toward the zooming loaders. “But it’s a 60,000-pound machine, and it can go anywhere.”
McClain would know…
Festival of Flight
February 24, 2025 – click above to read more…
Birders Flock to Sandhill Crane Festival
Along the highway leading to the Sandhill Crane Festival in Birchwood, Tennessee, cows and crows huddled against the biting wind.
Temperatures would plummet through the day and settle to a brittle 10 degrees by nightfall.
But the sandhill cranes didn’t care.
They seem to relish the raw weather, just as people relish the chance to watch them.
Around the Regions: December 2024
February 5, 2025 – click above to read more…
There’s a lot going on around TVA! We want spotlight some of the stories from each region every month. Continue reading to see some of the highlights from December.
Meet Tasha Case
Feb 5, 2025 – click above to read more…
“My day starts at 6 a.m. when I report to the galley for a pre-job brief,” said Tasha Case, when asked about a day-in-the-life of a TVA deckhand. “Then we fire everything up.”