Causes & gatherings · Sevier County
Free.
Permanently.
Churches · ball leagues · benefit rides · volunteer fire departments · school fundraisers
A page of your own and a listing in the registry, at no charge
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You are not the customer here. You're the reason there is one. The whole catch, explained below
The catch · stated in full
There's no fee. There is a reason.
Free things in a county this size usually have a hook in them somewhere — a trial that converts, a logo you can't remove, a bill in year two. So here is the entire arrangement, in one paragraph, with nothing held back.
A registry with forty live listings is worth reading. A registry with eight is a list. The businesses that pay me are buying a directory people actually open, and a directory people actually open is one with the church rummage sale, the youth league schedule and the benefit ride in it — not just plumbers. So you cost me an afternoon and you make the thing work. That's the trade, and it's the whole trade.
What that buys you is a straight answer to the obvious question: no, I am not going to call you in six months about a plan. Free means free, and the paragraph above is why I can afford to mean it.
- No fee, ever. Not a trial, not a first year, not a discount that expires.
- No upsell. Nobody follows up to sell you a plan. If you ever want paid work, you'll have to ask me.
- No ads on your page. Yours is not a billboard for anybody, including me.
- No position for sale. Nobody outranks you in the registry by paying. Not at any price.
- Yours to take. The files are yours. Walk off with them whenever you like, and nothing breaks.
What shows up · at no charge
A page that survives a change of officers
Most causes here live on a Facebook page owned by whoever set it up in 2014. When that person moves, or stops answering, the page goes with them — along with the event history, the photos and every follower you spent nine years collecting.
The point of this isn't a prettier website. It's an address that belongs to the organization instead of to a volunteer, so next year's secretary inherits something rather than starting over.
- One fast page — who you are, what you do, when you meet, how to reach you
- Your next event or drive up top, with the date and the place
- A donate or volunteer button pointed wherever you already collect
- A listing in the registry, in every family that fits you
- A QR code for bulletins, flyers, the sign out front and the back of a shirt
- Print-ready artwork if you have a logo — cleaned up, not redrawn without asking
- Hosting, indefinitely, at no charge to you — civic pages never see a hosting bill, full stop
- Kept current — text me a date change and it's live the same day
If you already have a website you like, keep it. Take the registry listing on its own and we're square — the listing is free whether I built anything or not.
Who this is for · an open list
If you're not selling anything, you're in
The test isn't what kind of organization you are on paper. It's whether the thing you're doing is for the county rather than for a margin. Nonprofit status is not required and nobody is going to ask for a determination letter.
Churches, missions, food pantries, recovery groups, benevolence funds. Service times, the pantry hours, and who to call at nine on a Tuesday night.
Booster clubs, ball leagues, band and ag programs, scholarship funds, coaches. The schedule, the fundraiser, the sign-up — in one place parents can find.
Poker runs, memorial rides, toy drives, fish frys, cake walks, car shows. Anything that happens once a year and dies on a shared Facebook post.
Departments, auxiliaries, search and rescue, first responders. Recruiting, the burn ban, the pancake breakfast, and the donate button.
Festivals, markets, reunions, clubs, hobby groups, seasonal events. The kind of thing a visitor would go to if they could find out it existed.
The list is open on purpose and it has been added to before. Call and describe what you do — the question is only ever whether you're selling something.
Who's listed so far · updated as consent comes in
Nobody yet. That isn't a typo.
This page went up before a single cause had said yes, because the only way to have a full list on day one is to list people who never agreed to it. Nobody appears here until somebody who speaks for the organization has said yes in writing — and a public Facebook page is not saying yes.
So the count below is real and it will look thin for a while. A directory that looks full on its first day is the first thing a local would catch you on, and being caught on that once would cost more than the wait.
Being first costs you nothing and it's the only thing I actually need. The listing is free whether you're number one or number forty — the difference is only that number one gets asked first when somebody comes looking.
How it goes · about an afternoon of yours
What I need from you
Somebody who can say yes
A pastor, a chief, a president, a coach — whoever actually speaks for it.
Nothing goes live until a person with authority has agreed in writing, even a text. Nobody gets listed by surprise, and that rule does not bend for free entries.
The facts, as they actually are
Times, dates, a phone number that gets answered, an address if you meet somewhere.
If a date isn't settled yet, the page says so rather than guessing. Nothing invented to fill a gap.
Photos, if you have them
Phone photos are fine. Real ones beat stock every time.
No photos at all is workable — the page is built to look right without them. Don't let this be the thing that stalls it.
Your own marks only
Your logo, your name, your event.
If you're raising for a national charity, their name and logo stay off the page until they've given you written permission to use them. That's their rule, not mine, and it protects you.
Call or text (865) 394-5582 and say what your group is and when the next thing happens. That's the whole intake — there's no form, and there's nothing to pay.
If it's easier, send it in writing: the name of the group, who speaks for it, and a date you want people to know about. I'll come back with a page to look at before anything goes live.
Before you say yes · the fine print, out loud
What free doesn't mean
No invoice, now or later. Hosting indefinitely. The files are yours. A listing nobody can buy their way above. And a phone number that reaches the person who built it.
Unlimited rebuilds on demand. A same-hour turnaround in the middle of a workday. Or a domain name paid for by me — that's a registrar's fee, about fifteen dollars a year, and it goes to the registrar in your name.
You can also have the page with no domain at all, at a free address that costs nobody anything. Plenty of groups should start there — and if the fifteen dollars is an obstacle, just say so on the call and we'll use the free address.
The registry publishes in its empty state and the civic families are free from the day they open, not once they're full. Being early costs you nothing and it's the only thing I actually need.