Business Directory / Community
7 local community across the Upper Cumberland region.
Catholic Charities opened a Putnam and Smith Family Resource Center in 2025 at 580 S Jefferson Ave, Suite B. The center page lists housing help, job programs, and a food pantry for a set of Cookeville-area ZIP codes. A Herald-Citizen list dated October 31, 2025, still showed 421 N Washington Ave.
Photo: Clinch-Powell RC&DClinch-Powell packages USDA home-repair loans and grants, housing preservation grants, and small-business loans from 7995 Rutledge Pike in Rutledge. An August 2026 Housing Preservation Grant notice covers nine East Tennessee counties, including Cumberland, and does not list Putnam County. Office hours are weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Fifth Gospel Equine is a nonprofit at 6380 Spring Creek Rd that uses horsemanship with people in recovery. The site says programs are for all ages and names therapeutic horsemanship, youth classes, and equine therapy groups. A class usually lasts 2 to 3 hours. Appointments are made at (615) 542-0643.
Helping Hands of Putnam County is at 421 E Broad St. It provides emergency food, utility assistance, rent assistance, gas vouchers for out-of-county medical trips, and help with some prescription costs for Putnam County residents. The office is open weekdays by appointment, 9 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Photo: Operation United HopeOperation United Hope gives free food, clothes, and household goods to veterans and their immediate families at 5725 Highway 111. NewsChannel 5 reported the pantry is open Mondays and Tuesdays and described a 6,000-square-foot space. Suite numbers in public lists do not all match.
The Stephens Center is a child-abuse prevention nonprofit at 616 N Church St in Livingston, open since 1988. Friends for Families is an in-home visiting program in Putnam, Cumberland, and Overton counties. Healthy Families Tennessee, restarted in 2022, enrolls a mother who is pregnant or has a baby under three months.
The Upper Cumberland Women's Club was founded in 2010 by Andrea Burckhard and Linda Brooks Jones. A 2022 article says the club serves Cumberland, Putnam, Overton, Pickett, and White counties and supports the Stephens Center. Luncheon proceeds have gone to a scholarship and benevolent fund. Dues on the Hip listing are $25 a year.
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