Businesses Are Friends of the Smokies, Too!

Join Our Membership Benefits Program - Friends of the Smokies members enjoy amazing discounts from area merchants like Dollywood and Great Smoky Mountains Railroad. Check out our Membership Benefits page. To participate, please e-mail Marketing Director Holly Scott at fotshb@bellsouth.net.

Friends of the Smokies has raised more than $31 million to support a variety of projects and programs that benefit America's most visited national park. The park attracts more than nine million visitors each year, and it is one of the reasons why many individuals and businesses choose to locate in nearby communities. Recent studies by Texas A&M University and the University of Michigan showed that Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the #1 National Park Service unit in generating dollars & jobs for its surrounding communities ($760+ Million annually & 13,000 jobs!)

BUSINESS MEMBERSHIPS

All business members of $35 or more receive our quarterly newsletter.

Business members of $100 or more will also be listed on the Friends of the Smokies website, and they will receive an annual window decal that reads "We support Friends of Great Smoky Mountains National Park." (Click here to view our 2009 Annual Report.)

Business members of $500 or more will also be recognized and thanked during the annual Friends Across the Mountains broadcast (via WBIR in Knoxville and WLOS in Asheville) and in advertisements in area newspapers.

To establish or renew your business or organization membership Give online - it’s secure and convenient. Or call us at 800-845-5665.

OTHER WAYS OF GIVING

Here are a few more ways that your business or organization can help preserve and protect Great Smoky Mountains National Park:

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES - Trail maintenance and other projects are a great way to do teambuilding while also helping the park! Visit to learn more.

IN-KIND GIVING OPPORTUNITIES - Whether it's help with computer networking or donations of office furniture, there are many other ways your business can help! Contact Office/Special Projects Coordinator Kathryn Robertson at fotskr@bellsouth.net.

DESIGNATED GIFT OPPORTUNITIES - Through grants or other special gifts, companies can help fund a specific park project or program. See our 2011 Park Support list here.

DESIGNATED PROCEEDS - Your products & services can benefit Friends of the Smokies, like these

• Blue Smoke Coffee’s Mt. LeConte Blend - a portion of the proceeds from each sale support our Trails Forever program.
• The official print of Mt. LeConte by Robert A. Tino. Each sale through Stokely Hospitality generates a donation to Friends!
• “Finding the Way” - the official print of the Park’s 75th Anniversary celebration - by Robert A. Tino. Buy it here and support the Smokies.
• About You Salon & Day Spa gives a portion of each Signature Mountain Heritage Massage to Friends of the Smokies.
• “Sanctuary” by Greg Johnson - This inspiring book about the Smoky Mountains benefits the Park!
• Laura Long Martin’s book “A Beautiful View: Reflection on Bluff Mountain by Matriarch Marian Oates” helps preserve and protect the Smokies. To purchase please e-mail the author at celebrateknoxville@gmail.com.