Be the Change Youth Initiative is a nonprofit in the Chattanooga area that encourages youth to use their gifts and talents to help others.
On Friday night, Be the Change hosts the Empower YOUth Celebration and Art Auction at The Grand Soiree in Red Bank, starting at 6:30 PM.
It’s a celebration for Red Bank art students, also raising money for public school art classrooms and summer scholarships for local teens.
Sydney Guerrette is founder and president of Be The Change.
Her mom Deirdre Catlett is its operations director.
Hollie Berry is the Mayor of Red Bank and an artist.