COMMUNITY FOUNDATION AWARDS $2.8 MILLION IN ANNUAL GRANT CYCLE
New JumpStart Grants Program supports grassroots nonprofits
Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee (CFMT), a nonprofit organization striving to build a more thriving and inclusive community by transforming thoughtful generosity into positive change, is thrilled to announce $2,803,889 in grants to 438 nonprofit partners located in 30 counties located in central Tennessee, making for an average of $6,402 per grant.
This year’s grant awards included the innovative JumpStart Grants, a pilot program designed to assist grassroots organizations that achieved tax-exempt status between 2021-2023 with active programming in place offering early but promising results. A total of 44 JumpStart Grants amounting to $147,932 have been distributed across 13 counties, reflecting CFMT’s dedication to nurturing emerging nonprofits.
“Good work happens every day in our community through the efforts of dedicated and talented staff and volunteers of nonprofit organizations, and we are happy to support that work,” says Laundrea Lewis, VP of Grants.
Community Foundation awards discretionary grants annually from its unrestricted and field-of-interest funds to Middle Tennessee nonprofits. Grants are awarded through an open application process for organizations addressing community needs and benefiting the well-being of residents through valuable programs and innovative services.
To learn about more than 1,400 of Middle Tennessee’s nonprofits and the wonderful work they do, go to the CFMT initiative GivingMatters.com.
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| PROGRAM | ORGANIZATION | DESCRIPTION | COUNTY |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANIMAL WELFARE | Middle TN Spay & Neuter Clinic | To provide FREE sterilizations of community, feral and stray cats and purchase 6 new feral cat traps. | BEDFORD |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | Spay It Forward Cannon County | Provide spay/neuter assistance for cats to low income, seniors, and disabled persons helping animal overpopulation in our community without shelter. | CANNON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | CASA of Cannon County | To recruit, train, and supervise volunteers to advocate for abused and neglected children in foster care and in state's custody. | CANNON |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | Saving Cheatham Animals Mission PAWSible, Inc | Funding request for spay/neuter for the shelter animals at Cheatham County Animal Control prior to their adoption. | CHEATHAM |
| EDUCATION | Pegram Elementary Fine Arts Magnet School | To provide enriching fine arts experiences for elementary school students in a low funded rural district. | CHEATHAM |
| FOOD, FOOD SECURITY, NUTRITION & AGRICULTURE | The Ark Community Resource Center | To enable seniors to age in place by providing five meals per week to 30+ homebound seniors | CHEATHAM |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | Duck River Watershed Society, Inc. | We bring awareness and education to those that live in middle-Tennessee about the importance and uniqueness of the Duck River. | COFFEE |
| ANIMAL WELFARE | Coffee County Humane Society | To provide financial assistance for spay and neuter, and severe health threatening conditions of low income family pets. | COFFEE |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Millennium Repertory Company | To continue to advance the theatrical arts in our community through programs for children, teens, and adults. | COFFEE |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Tullahoma South Jackson Civic Association | Support for the Community Playhouse Theater Series with royalties, payment for light and sound technicians, sets and costumes. | COFFEE |
| EDUCATION | Bel-Aire Elementary | Bel-Aire wishes to provide its fifth grade students with Junior Achievement’s free-enterprise educational program, culminating with participation in JizTown. | COFFEE |
| EDUCATION | Coffee County Raider Academy "General Store" | The CCRA General Store goal is to provide food, clothing, hygiene products and school supplies to students in need. | COFFEE |
| EDUCATION | Coffee County School District Family Resource Center | The purpose shall be to supply and help with basic needs for the students in our school district | COFFEE |
| EDUCATION | College Street Elementary | College Street Elementary wants to improve student social, emotional, and academic success in by improving student attendance. | COFFEE |
| EDUCATION | Deerfield Elementary Backpack Program | To provide food, coats, shoes, and school supplies for our Deerfield Students that are in need. | COFFEE |
| EDUCATION | East Middle School | To impact our students who need it the most by ensuring their basic needs are met and provided for. | COFFEE |
| EDUCATION | Manchester City Schools | Provide Safe and Ready Kits to support students safely in emergency situations. | COFFEE |
| EDUCATION | Robert E. Lee Elementary School | Allow students the opportunity to attend JA BizTown | COFFEE |
| EDUCATION | Tullahoma City Schools | To provide a crisis support bag in each classroom for teachers to use with their students during an emergency. | COFFEE |
| EDUCATION | Tullahoma City Schools-East Lincoln Elementary | The grant purpose is to provide economically disadvantaged students with supplies, clothes, shoes and fees for enrichment activities. | COFFEE |
| EDUCATION | Tullahoma Day Care Center | To provide exercise equipment for 31 daycare students to develop gross motor skills and comply with Tennessee childcare license rules. | COFFEE |
| EDUCATION | Westwood Middle School | Develop a student youth advisory council that will provide a student voice for middle school related issues. | COFFEE |
| HEALTH | Partners for Healing | To provide primary care and mental health services to the uninsured of Coffee, Franklin, and Moore Counties of Tennessee. | COFFEE |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | CASA Works, Inc. | Provide books, art material, etc for volunteers to use when visiting their clients. | COFFEE |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Coffee County Children's Advocacy Center | To provide trauma-focused mental health services to children and their non-offending caregivers who experience severe abuse in Coffee County. | COFFEE |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Dossett Chapel at Tullahoma First Methodist | Dossett Chapel provides underprivileged children with afterschool activities and underprivileged teenagers training in automotive, lawn mower and yard maintenance. | COFFEE |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Horse Play, Inc | Horse Play, Inc, provides therapeutic horseback riding and other equine opportunities for children with developmental, mental, and/or physical challenges. | COFFEE |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Imagination Library of Coffee County | To provide one specially selected, age appropriate, Imagination Library book each month to 800 children birth-5 in Coffee County. | COFFEE |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Sportsmen and Professional Men of Coffee County Inc | To provide basic services and items such as vision, dental and healthcare, hygiene supplies, clothing, shoes and food for children | COFFEE |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- EMERGENCY NEEDS | Haven of Hope, Inc. | To provide domestic and sexual violence victim services in undeserved rural counties through case management, counseling, and housing assistance. | COFFEE |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- WOMEN & MEN | Henry Center at Tullahoma First Methodist | The Henry Center provides food, clothing, and financial assistance to the under-privileged in our community and other surrounding communities. | COFFEE |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Art Guild at Fairfield Glade | To provide art classes at Fair Park Senior Center in Crossville, TN and various locales in Cumberland County. | CUMBERLAND |
| HOUSING & SHELTER | Avalon Center | To provide personal hygiene supplies to 100 survivors of domestic and sexual violence who reside in our emergency shelter. | CUMBERLAND |
| HOUSING & SHELTER | Creative Compassion, Inc. | To provide housing payment assistance to households facing unexpected financial hardship so they may have stable housing and utilities. | CUMBERLAND |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Kids On The Rise | To build relationships between volunteer adult mentors and youth to further develop their academic, social, and creative capacities. | CUMBERLAND |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | AWAKE Nashville | Secure operational support, focusing on hiring accounting services, to further our mission of providing accessible affordable housing solutions for seniors. | DAVIDSON |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | Corrine's Place of Love | To provide temporary shelter for women with/without children, career readiness, establish food&clothing program, as well as outreach services. | DAVIDSON |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | Counting Fingers and Toes | To support early math learning by providing resources to families so that they can engage in math activities at home | DAVIDSON |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | East Nashville Wellness Center | Provide mental health services including medication management, counseling, and addiction treatment to East Nashville residents in need. | DAVIDSON |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | Ella's House | Ella's House provides holistic, in-house and out-patient, support balancing education and community for pregnant and parenting collegiate mothers. | DAVIDSON |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | Equally Created | To provide accessible early childhood education for children from all backgrounds and walks of life. | DAVIDSON |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | Healing in the Margins | To provide 50 LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC mental health clinicians with advanced trauma trainings and workshops. | DAVIDSON |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | Healing Minds and Souls | Healing Minds and Souls (HMS) brings trauma-informed care to the community through resources, education and relationships to build healthy families. | DAVIDSON |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | Jacob's Audible Inc | To provide respite care opportunities for 36 parents and caretakers for children with autism. | DAVIDSON |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | Kindling Arts | To support Middle Tennessee-based artists and creative personnel for Kindling Arts Festival 2024, a four-day celebration of local contemporary performance | DAVIDSON |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | Mid South Liver Alliance | MSLA is planning a liver educational Ask the expert program for 125 patients in Nashville in the spring of 2024. | DAVIDSON |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | Nashville Book Connection | To connect kids with books they love and nurture reader identities--at home and in the classroom. | DAVIDSON |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | Nashville Living Wage | To grow our network of certified living wage employers and educate the community about good jobs and living wages. | DAVIDSON |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | National Autism Peer Support | To provide a safe meeting space for adult autistics to find resources, acceptance, and understanding with their like-minded peers. | DAVIDSON |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | Network for Sustainable Solutions | Transit Together is a community outreach and engagement program gathering public feedback and creating community-driven solutions to transit issues. | DAVIDSON |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | Next Level Skills College Prep and Recruiting | We prepare high school student-athletes to be academically successful in college and collegiate student-athletes to start successful careers. | DAVIDSON |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | PIVOT: School Improvement Leaders | PIVOT develops strong leaders for high need, low performing schools through individualized training and support. | DAVIDSON |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | Project E3 | To provide lessons for underprivileged youth and young adults to learn proper swimming techniques and become proficient swimmers. | DAVIDSON |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | Royal Table Inc | To provide advancement to the underserved community through STEAM K-12, Affordable Housing, Financial Literacy Workshop to promote generational wealth. | DAVIDSON |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | Sunnyside Up Youth Pregnancy Services | To provide 6 weeks of in-person postpartum support to 5 pregnant youth ages 13-21. | DAVIDSON |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | Team CJ Colas Uterine Cancer Foundation | To provide mutual-aid support for cancer patients including mental health counseling and support with day-to-day logistics and services. | DAVIDSON |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | Tennessee Local Food | To support the growth of our local food system by educating small farmers and consumers through workshops and networking activities. | DAVIDSON |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | Tennessee Resettlement Aid | To solve the issue of food insecurity in refugee households by providing emergency food aid and assistance with EBT registration. | DAVIDSON |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | The Aloe Family Inc | To provide job skills training for 8 individuals who identify as asylum seekers, refugees or migrants living in Middle Tennessee. | DAVIDSON |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | The Enlightenment Film Academy | To provide film and tv production training for 20 boys and girls ages 10 - 18, from underrepresented populations. | DAVIDSON |
| ANIMAL WELFARE | Agape Animal Rescue and Training Center | To expand Agape Animal Rescue and Training Center’s life-saving impact and sustainability efforts. | DAVIDSON |
| ANIMAL WELFARE | Friends of MACC | To provide lifesaving medical care to Nashville's homeless animals. | DAVIDSON |
| ANIMAL WELFARE | Harmony Wildlife Rehabilitation | To fund three additional positions in response to exponential growth in requests for Harmony Wildlife’s services and educational programming. | DAVIDSON |
| ANIMAL WELFARE | Nashville Cat Rescue | To spay or neuter 1,500 cats so that they may be put up for adoption. | DAVIDSON |
| ANIMAL WELFARE | Nashville Humane Association | To support general operating costs associated with running our animal shelter, including staffing, supplies and facilities. | DAVIDSON |
| ANIMAL WELFARE | Pawster Nashville | To build capacity in currently underrepresented communities in order to foster 50 animals when their families are in crisis. | DAVIDSON |
| ANIMAL WELFARE | Pet Community Center | Spay/Neuter 125 community cats, Spay/Neuter 60 pets in need through our Spay Neuter Assistance Fund, and provide 333 wellness exams. | DAVIDSON |
| ANIMAL WELFARE | Retrieving Independence | Supporting rehabilitation of incarcerated people and providing greater independence to individuals with disabilities through the training and placement service dogs. | DAVIDSON |
| ANIMAL WELFARE | The Crossroads Campus | To provide veterinary care, including spay/neuter surgery, and behavior/training support for the dogs and cats in our shelter program. | DAVIDSON |
| ANIMAL WELFARE | Walden's Puddle | To provide food, medicine and medical care for orphaned or injured wildlife to successfully return them back to the wild. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | abrasiveMedia | Project Awake: A theatrical assembly program addressing bullying, assault, and self-harm, empowering students to create safer schools. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Actors Bridge Ensemble | To help 5,500 Middle Tennesseans find their authentic voices through autobiographical storytelling, actor training, and teen girl empowerment programming. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Adventure Science Center | Provide hands-on engineering and creative inspirational opportunities to guests, students, and families and foster interest in STEM education and experiences. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | ALIAS Chamber Ensemble | To support the ALIAS in the Community program (AIC), which presents classical music and educational programming to schools/community organizations. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Andrew Jackson Foundation | To support humanities education for over 220,000 annual visitors through historic preservation of the Hermitage mansion and smokehouse. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Arts Bellevue | A monthly event showcasing diverse Nashville music with songwriters & musicians weaving in tales of their lives. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Belmont University | To provide educational programming empowering 400 adults to embrace their artistic abilities and pursue a create life. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Centennial Park Conservancy | To support Centennial Park Conservancy’s (CPC) free, community-focused programming that engages over 500,000 people each year. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville | Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville offers communities opportunities to learn Chinese arts and culture in May, the AAPI Heritage Month. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Choral Arts Link | To provide weekly choral instruction and significant performance opportunities to youth, featuring and supporting majority BIPOC composers and artists. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | COOP Gallery | To cultivate, exhibit, and engage with contemporary art by providing programming which presents challenging, new, or under-represented artists/artworks. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum | Words & Music is a curriculum-based lyric-writing program that creates opportunities for teachers and students to collaborate with Nashville songwriters. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Creative Artists of Tennessee | To provide an immersive summer education camp for exceptionally talented youth aged 13-18 in culinary, performing, and visual arts. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Creative Girls Rock®️ | To address the need for arts education programming by expanding our CGR Mural Project program to four schools. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | CreatiVets | To provide art and music programs to veterans suffering from the physical and mental wounds of war. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Friends of Metro Dance | To provide support for teen dancers in the areas of emotional well-being, nutrition, and physical therapy. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Friends of the Edmondson Homesite Park and Gardens | To upgrade our website to share neighborhood history and ongoing preservation efforts as well as be a hub for events. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Frist Art Museum | To support teen programs that nurture creativity and promote personal and professional development and community involvement through the visual arts. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Girls Write Nashville | Girls Write Nashville Writers Guilds empower teen artists through curriculum-based songwriting, production, mentorship and long term positive community building. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Global Education Center | To provide multicultural arts programming in area schools and the community that helps dispel myths, dismantle stereotypes, and alleviate fears | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Healing Arts Project Inc. (HAPI) | To provide artistic opportunities for persons in mental health and addiction recovery to promote healing, community awareness, and inclusion. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Inspiritus, Inc. | To provide access to art therapy that promotes social-emotional learning and healthy coping skills for 180 children in distressed communities. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Intersection | To connect new and expecting mothers with artists to create personal lullabies, strengthening well-being and connections with family and community. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Jazz Empowers | Jazz Empowers is requesting a $15,000 grant to start and/or support jazz programs in 5 undeserved schools in Middle Tennessee. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Make Music Nashville | Make Music Nashville creates opportunities for all Nashvillians to participate with music education, play-alongs, and concert experiences across the region. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Metro Nashville Chorus/Sweet Adelines International | YWISH FESTIVAL: Share the joy of 4-part a cappella harmony in the barbershop style with young singers in Middle Tennessee. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Middle Tennessee Guitar Alliance | To present four free concerts by world-renowned classical guitarists in 2024. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | MOVE Inclusive Dance | To cover annual wages for our teachers that lead inclusive dance classes for people of all abilities in Nashville. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Music City Baroque | To provide educational programs in historical performance to underserved school music classes/organizations | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Music Neighbors | To support 60+ musicians through free studio recording sessions, creating performance videos, and amplifying their voices to build better communities. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Nashville Ballet | To support the inclusion and featuring of artists of color in Nashville Ballet’s upcoming production of “ATTITUDE” February 9-11, 2024. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Nashville Children's Theatre | To provide professional theateatrical experiences for children and families in Middle Tennessee that encourage empathy, understanding and provide education value. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Nashville Jazz Workshop | To connect 500+ people of all ages and backgrounds to Nashville Jazz Workshop's classes, concerts, and community outreach. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Nashville Opera | To provide support for Nashville Opera's community programs that reach 50,000+ Tennesseans annually--ten times the amount impacted by in-theater performances. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Nashville Philharmonic Orchestra | We offer area orchestral musicians opportunities to perform while providing symphonic music free of charge to a variety of audiences. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Nashville Symphony Association | To reach 40,000 Middle Tennesseans through 20+ FREE community & music education programs, including concerts, interactive activities, and one-on-one instruction. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Notes for Notes, Inc. | To provide music and social emotional education to youth so music may become a profoundly positive influence in their lives. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Park Center, Inc | To provide weekly art therapy sessions to people experiencing mental illness (including emerging adults 18-25). | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Rejoice School of Ballet | Mentor diverse youth through multi-level dance instruction opportunities and classical/original ballet community performances utilizing original scores and live musical accompaniment. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation | To train & support over 325 K-12 educators at the Tennessee Arts Academy’s 2024 Summer Institute and Virtual Winter Retreat. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | The Porch Writers' Collective | To provide general operating support for Nashville’s growing literary community through educational classes, workshops, and literary events. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | The Theater Bug | To engage 25 students in an original student-written theater production that addresses self-identity, inclusion, and personal development. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Unscripted | To employ two part time employees to manage and support improv teaching artists and programs. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Vox Grata, Inc. | To present 1-2 collaborative performance(s) in North Nashville that celebrate the suffrage movement, coinciding with the 2024 presidential election. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | W.O. Smith/Nashville Community Music School | To provide music education to 400 low-income children in the metro Nashville area. | DAVIDSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | YEAH! - Youth Empowerment Through Arts and Humanities | To provide enriching experiences that help 50 -60 youth build character, self-esteem and community through music education. | DAVIDSON |
| COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, IMPROVEMENT & PLANNING | API Middle Tennessee | Operating support will help us make a Middle Tennessee where Asian and Pacific Islanders feel connected and thrive. | DAVIDSON |
| COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, IMPROVEMENT & PLANNING | Cumberland Region Tomorrow | To facilitate the region’s discussion on the most critical issues related to growth and development, engaging thousands of influential people. | DAVIDSON |
| COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, IMPROVEMENT & PLANNING | Edgehill Neighborhood Partnership | To provide food security, affordable housing, education, positive youth development, and workforce development to youth and adults across South Nashville. | DAVIDSON |
| COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, IMPROVEMENT & PLANNING | Historic Germantown Neighborhood Association | To support the costs of several street signs in Germantown, designating the historic neighborhood and including the historic street names. | DAVIDSON |
| COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, IMPROVEMENT & PLANNING | Meharry Medical College | Establish a voucher program for individuals completing residential addiction treatment to access recovery housing while they attend outpatient services. | DAVIDSON |
| COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, IMPROVEMENT & PLANNING | Neighbor 2 Neighbor | We offer a wide range of training and networking activities to support residents and neighborhood organizations in their work. | DAVIDSON |
| COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, IMPROVEMENT & PLANNING | Stand Up Nashville | To ensure that black, brown, and economically disadvantaged peoples in Davidson county have access to well-paid employment and apprenticeship opportunities. | DAVIDSON |
| COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, IMPROVEMENT & PLANNING | The Nashville Entrepreneur Center | Equip Black and Latinx entrepreneurs with resources and information to help them overcome challenges in building their businesses. | DAVIDSON |
| COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, IMPROVEMENT & PLANNING | The Transit Alliance of Middle Tennessee | To sustain operations for educating the Middle TN community on funding transit initiatives and develop operations for input on transit. | DAVIDSON |
| COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, IMPROVEMENT & PLANNING | Walk Bike Nashville | To make it easier and safer to move through Nashville without a car. | DAVIDSON |
| COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, IMPROVEMENT & PLANNING | Young Leaders Council | YLC facilitates board development training designed to equip young professionals with the skills/knowledge needed to serve on nonprofit boards. | DAVIDSON |
| EDUCATION | 100 Black Men of Middle TN, Inc. | To provide workforce and college readiness and personal wellness training for young Black men between 10-18 years old. | DAVIDSON |
| EDUCATION | AAOC Camps for Youth Development | To provide additional staff to support and enhance the AAOC Elementary Literacy Education Program for 30 students in grades 1-4. | DAVIDSON |
| EDUCATION | Autism Career Training (ACT) | Preparing adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) for future career success through ACT's highly individualized job training programs. | DAVIDSON |
| EDUCATION | Aventura Community School | Aventura is a new diverse, bilingual charter school and this will support operations in our initial growth years. | DAVIDSON |
| EDUCATION | Backfield in Motion | Backfield in Motion empowers at-risk youth through education, emphasizing mastery of literacy and numeracy skills while utilizing athletics as motivation. | DAVIDSON |
| EDUCATION | Begin Anew of Middle Tennessee | Improve education and career opportunities for 300 adults working toward their high school equivalency, mastering English Language, and Computer/Job Skills. | DAVIDSON |
| EDUCATION | Book'em | Provide 100,000+ books to Davidson County underserved youth and 250+ reading role models for Pre-K-5th graders reading below grade level. | DAVIDSON |
| EDUCATION | Corner to Corner | Script to Screen is a unique after-school program that taps into students’ love of movies to improve their reading skills. | DAVIDSON |
| EDUCATION | Diverse Learners Cooperative | To increase the success of diverse learners by empowering and equipping teacher leaders to lead change within their own schools. | DAVIDSON |
| EDUCATION | Horizons at University School of Nashville | Provide summer literacy, STEM, arts enrichment, and athletics for 145 MNPS students to address the achievement gap and prevent slide. | DAVIDSON |
| EDUCATION | Junior Achievement of Middle Tennessee | To bring financial literacy, workforce readiness a entrepreneurship education programs to 32,000 K-12 students across Middle Tennessee. | DAVIDSON |
| EDUCATION | King's Daughters Child Development Center | To cultivate developmentally appropriate skills within 100 children (age 2 months to 5 years) of diverse socio-economic backgrounds. | DAVIDSON |
| EDUCATION | Learning Matters | To provide 2600 hours of interventional tutoring to under-resourced students with learning disabilities, primarily dyslexia. | DAVIDSON |
| EDUCATION | Love Helps, inc. | Impacting 4,000+ Nashville school children through a school-based program establishing foundational elements for success (i.e. positive character, education, and literacy). | DAVIDSON |
| EDUCATION | Nashville Adult Literacy Council | To teach reading, writing, and English-speaking skills to adults in Nashville so they can have the life they want. | DAVIDSON |
| EDUCATION | Nashville Freedom School Partnership | We provide summer programming to help prevent summer learning loss through a research-based literacy curriculum and cultural enrichment activities. | DAVIDSON |
| EDUCATION | Nashville Public Education Foundation | NPEF identifies challenges and advances evidence-based solutions so ALL children can thrive in school. | DAVIDSON |
| EDUCATION | Nashville State Community College Foundation | To support the Black Male Success Initiative enabling unprecedented academic and holistic support to increase successful completion and career placement. | DAVIDSON |
| EDUCATION | Nashville Teacher Residency | Nashville Teacher Residency seeks funding for intensive year-long support to empower three aspiring teachers who will impact 300+ students. | DAVIDSON |
| EDUCATION | Nashville Tools for Schools | To provide custom-made furnishings at a discounted price to MNPS teachers to help improve classrooms | DAVIDSON |
| EDUCATION | National Federation of the Blind of Tennessee | To connect blind students with a new innovative mentoring program to decrease the catastrophic 70% blind unemployment rate. | DAVIDSON |
| EDUCATION | Plant the Seed | To provide educational cooking kits and community education classes to 499 students and their households/caregivers at MNPS Explore! Community School | DAVIDSON |
| EDUCATION | Southern Word | Serve 800 youth participants out of school through writing and music workshops. | DAVIDSON |
| EDUCATION | Tennessee Educators of Color Alliance | Provide career readiness and leadership development for aspiring/current teachers of color to be better prepared and retained in education profession. | DAVIDSON |
| EDUCATION | Tennessee State Parks Conservancy | Create a hologram featuring an African American Civil War Union soldier who shares his story at state parks and classrooms. | DAVIDSON |
| EDUCATION | Transformation Life Center | Inspire the love of reading through running to help 65 black boys improve reading proficiency, outrun obesity and live healthy. | DAVIDSON |
| EDUCATION | Travellers Rest Historic House Museum | To create and implement programming that centers and prioritizes the needs of the Black and descendant visitor. | DAVIDSON |
| EDUCATION | Wayne Reed Christian Childcare Center | To teach at-risk children the skills needed to enter kindergarten on the same level as their more advantaged peers. | DAVIDSON |
| EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING | Be a Helping Hand | Train and employ a diverse workforce in the renewable energy sector, provide solar-powered affordable housing, and equitable futures. | DAVIDSON |
| EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING | Friends Life Community | To provide hands-on job skills training for 35 adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities to help them obtain meaningful employment. | DAVIDSON |
| EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING | Goodwill Industries of Middle Tennessee, Inc. | To provide stipends for participants in a solar energy installation training program being launched by Goodwill and partners. | DAVIDSON |
| EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING | MDHA Housing Trust Corporation | To empower 20 entry-level maintenance technicians with a high-demand skilled trade through on-the-job and classroom training for potential advancement. | DAVIDSON |
| EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING | Monroe Harding | To provide education and career readiness services to 11 young adults, bridging the gap between childhood and success in adulthood. | DAVIDSON |
| EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING | Tennessee Foreign Language Institute, Fund Inc. | Empower Middle Tennessee adults with immediate employment through a comprehensive 150-hour Teaching English as a Second Language program. | DAVIDSON |
| EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING | Thistle Farms | Thistle Farms is requesting support for the Job Readiness program, which helps women survivors build skills to gain financial independence. | DAVIDSON |
| EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING | UpRise Nashville | To equip Nashvillians impacted by poverty with skills that lead to careers with upward mobility for themselves and their families. | DAVIDSON |
| ENVIRONMENT & CONSERVATION | Cumberland River Compact | To develop an environmental STEM professional learning community for 10 educators that fosters community, innovation, and action in Middle Tennessee. | DAVIDSON |
| ENVIRONMENT & CONSERVATION | Friends of Green Hills Park | Restoration of a meadow with native plants, rocks, and a mulched pathway to benefit the local ecosystem and provide access. | DAVIDSON |
| ENVIRONMENT & CONSERVATION | Friends of Shelby Park and Bottoms | To connect youth with Shelby Park and Bottoms by providing quality educational programming in school and through park field trips. | DAVIDSON |
| ENVIRONMENT & CONSERVATION | Green Interchange | Planting trees in a highway interchange for a healthier community, economy, and quality of life. | DAVIDSON |
| ENVIRONMENT & CONSERVATION | Greenways for Nashvile | To elevate trailheads and wayfinding signage through updates and renovations of 30 Phase II sites along 100 miles of greenways | DAVIDSON |
| ENVIRONMENT & CONSERVATION | Nashville Tree Foundation | To support the mission of Nashville Tree Foundation in planting, preserving and educating the community regarding the importance of trees. | DAVIDSON |
| ENVIRONMENT & CONSERVATION | Nashville Wildlife Conservation Center | Educate MNPS students, families, and teachers about urban wildlife in their community and encourage environmental stewardship through 5 comprehensive programs | DAVIDSON |
| ENVIRONMENT & CONSERVATION | TennGreen Land Conservancy | To conserve land throughout Middle Tennessee with a special focus on endemic cedar glade habitat. | DAVIDSON |
| ENVIRONMENT & CONSERVATION | Turnip Green Creative Reuse | To divert 300,000 lbs of materials from Nashville’s landfill and redirect them to 25,000 community members for creative endeavors. | DAVIDSON |
| ENVIRONMENT & CONSERVATION | Urban Green Lab | Integrating education on sustainability and environmental and climate justice into all the places where Nashvillians live, work, and learn. | DAVIDSON |
| FOOD, FOOD SECURITY, NUTRITION & AGRICULTURE | BELL Garden | To add additional functionality to two hoop houses to further our mission to educate youth and serve the underserved year-round. | DAVIDSON |
| FOOD, FOOD SECURITY, NUTRITION & AGRICULTURE | Christian Cooperative Ministry | to providing healthy and nutritional food, water and hygiene products for an average of 325 unhoused individuals per month. | DAVIDSON |
| FOOD, FOOD SECURITY, NUTRITION & AGRICULTURE | Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee | $20,000 will provide 80,000 meals (96,000 pounds of food) to food-insecure children throughout Davidson County. | DAVIDSON |
| FOOD, FOOD SECURITY, NUTRITION & AGRICULTURE | The Bridge, Inc | To alleviate suffering and meet the needs of kids, families, and the elderly experiencing food insecurity. | DAVIDSON |
| FOOD, FOOD SECURITY, NUTRITION & AGRICULTURE | The Heimerdinger Foundation | To expand our Meals 4 Health and Healing program, to support hundreds of cancer patients and caregivers in Middle Tennessee. | DAVIDSON |
| FOOD, FOOD SECURITY, NUTRITION & AGRICULTURE | The Nashville Food Project | TNFP’s Meals Program annually prepares and shares 70,000 nutritious, scratch-made meals alongside mission-aligned children (<8 years) serving community partners. | DAVIDSON |
| FOOD, FOOD SECURITY, NUTRITION & AGRICULTURE | World Hunger Team | Place Food Growing Tents at locations in food-deprived urban neighborhoods, providing jobs and food for age-or-disability-challenged individuals. | DAVIDSON |
| HEALTH | A Step Ahead Foundation of Middle Tennessee | To provide access to free long-acting reversible contraception services. | DAVIDSON |
| HEALTH | AGAPE | To provide pro bono, professional mental health counseling for Hispanic/Latinx clients who are unable to access mental health services | DAVIDSON |
| HEALTH | Amputee Blade Runners | To provide free sports prosthetics and support services to twelve Middle Tennessee children with limb differences. | DAVIDSON |
| HEALTH | AncoraTN (formerly End Slavery Tennessee) | To ensure 24/7 emergency responses and long-term, trauma-informed aftercare services for over 400 survivors of human trafficking in Middle Tennessee. | DAVIDSON |
| HEALTH | Echoes of Hope Inc., | Provides several programs and services to assist women and their families through the trajectory of cancer and recovery. | DAVIDSON |
| HEALTH | Evergreen Presbyterian Ministries, Inc dba Evergreen Life Services | To provide prescribed critical medicines to children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities not reimbursed through insurance. | DAVIDSON |
| HEALTH | Gilda's Club Middle Tennessee | To provide free mental health support and counseling for those impacted by cancer in Middle Tennessee. | DAVIDSON |
| HEALTH | Medical Foundation of Nashville | To provide resources, support, and access for low-income, uninsured patients in need of specialty healthcare throughout Middle Tennessee. | DAVIDSON |
| HEALTH | Mending Hearts Inc | Helping women restore their lives from addiction through long-term treatment programs, offering hope and healing regardless of their financial capacity. | DAVIDSON |
| HEALTH | Mental Health America of the MidSouth | To enhance support for caregivers of those living with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia in Middle Tennessee. | DAVIDSON |
| HEALTH | NAMI Tennessee | To empower our affiliates to provide education and resources for Mental Health to more minority communities. | DAVIDSON |
| HEALTH | Nashville General Hospital Foundation | Produce a low health literacy guide for Labor and Delivery Discharge Patients. | DAVIDSON |
| HEALTH | Nurses for Newborns | To prevent infant mortality, child abuse and neglect through home visitation by registered nurses. | DAVIDSON |
| HEALTH | Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi | To provide reproductive healthcare to 4,000 individuals; provide 50 hours of sex education; deliver 145,000 condoms; and organize 85,000 individuals. | DAVIDSON |
| HEALTH | Renewal House, Inc. | To provide treatment and comprehensive recovery support services for 85 women and their children affected by substance use disorders. | DAVIDSON |
| HEALTH | Renewed | To receive general operating support to provide hope, help, and support for those affected by eating disorders. | DAVIDSON |
| HEALTH | Small World Yoga | Small World Yoga will bring trauma-informed yoga and meditation classes to underserved and historically marginalized populations in Middle Tennessee. | DAVIDSON |
| HEALTH | Starlings Nashville | To provide a program that will encourage leadership skills for underserved youth ages 10-18 | DAVIDSON |
| HEALTH | Survivor Fitness Foundation | Provide 200 rehabilitation sessions for cancer survivors through one-on-one training with exercise specialists, addressing side effects of diagnosis and treatments. | DAVIDSON |
| HEALTH | Tennessee Lions Charities, Inc. | To provide vision screenings, follow-ups to children, and develop a children's book that explains the importance of pediatric vision care. | DAVIDSON |
| HEALTH | Tennessee Poison Center | To provide parents and healthcare professionals with modern-day look-alike product marketing and packaging to prevent accidental consumption leading to poisonings. | DAVIDSON |
| HEALTH | The New Beginnings Center | To support holistic wellness programming for women and teenage girls toward the achievement of optimal health and well-being. | DAVIDSON |
| HEALTH | The Next Door | To provide evidence-based, trauma-informed addiction treatment services for at least 1600 women in active addiction. | DAVIDSON |
| HEALTH | United Neighborhood Health Services | To provide timely and high-quality prenatal care to an additional 120 low-income high-risk pregnant women in response to community demand. | DAVIDSON |
| HEALTH | Volunteers of America Mid-States | Volunteers of America Mid-States requests funding to provide professional development training to direct support professional staff in Middle Tennessee. | DAVIDSON |
| HEALTH | YWCA Nashville & Middle Tennessee | To provide emergency shelter and wraparound support services for 200 victims of domestic violence and 150 children. | DAVIDSON |
| HOUSING & SHELTER | Matthew 25, Inc. | To support the general operations of our Transitional Housing Program during a period of significant programmatic growth and increased expenses. | DAVIDSON |
| HOUSING & SHELTER | Nashville Launch Pad, Inc | To provide fully LGBTQIA-affirming and young adult focused emergency and transitional housing alongside contextual wrap-around services. | DAVIDSON |
| HOUSING & SHELTER | Operation Stand Down Tennessee | Providing financial support for 10+ Veterans who would otherwise experience financial/housing instability and are otherwise ineligible for other VA-funded assistance. | DAVIDSON |
| HOUSING & SHELTER | The Contributor | This program will fund various steps to help individuals experiencing homelessness obtain housing (identification, application fees, furnishing, deposits, etc). | DAVIDSON |
| HOUSING & SHELTER | The Mary Parrish Center | Providing survivors of interpersonal violence and their children safe, compassionate housing with individualized care that promotes healing, autonomy, and hope. | DAVIDSON |
| HOUSING & SHELTER | Westminster Home Connection | To increase capacity of four neighbor-helping-neighbor volunteer groups to make eight homes safe and functional by providing coaching and collaboration. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | ABC Sports Foundation | To provide activities and community events to youth in the areas of health and wellness, mentorship, and arts and entertainment. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | AWAKE (Advocates for Women's and Kids' Equality) | Provide evidence-based education to historically marginalized youth and women survivors on self-advocacy, leadership, and creating change. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Barefoot Republic Camp | To provide music and sports programs for 50 low-income, racially diverse children, who need financial assistance to participate. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Blind Visually Impaired Early Services of Tennessee d/b/a Blind Early Services TN | To provide services to young children with blindness and their families | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Bridges for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing | Services and programs that build access, equity, and inclusion in partnership with the D/deaf, Deaf-Blind, and Hard of Hearing | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Café Momentum Nashville | To equip justice-involved youth with life skills, education, and employment opportunities, helping them achieve their full potential | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Communities In Schools of Tennessee | To keep kids coming to school and eliminate the barriers that impede their ability to learn. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Community Resource Center | To provide period products for the 22,000 school-aged girls within Middle Tennessee who cannot otherwise afford these basic essentials. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | DYMON in the Rough | To provide after-school mentoring and support for 175 black girls as they navigate the social and academic landscape. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Elmahaba Center | To fund our youth programming in the greater South Nashville area: ACT, Tutoring, College Prep, Art Classes, and Field Trips | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | EPIC Girl | To reduce the behaviors associated with ACEs and delinquency for hi-risk girls by providing a gender specific, trauma-informed program. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee | To build girls of courage, confidence, and character by promoting healthy social, emotional, intellectual, and physical development through innovative programming. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Girls on the Run of Middle Tennessee | Provide 10-week social emotional learning curriculum that integrates running for 300-400 3rd-8th grade girls. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Harvest Hands Community Development Corporation | To empower young leaders through educational after school programs, employment and financial literacy training, and healthy living and sports activities. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | HopeKids Middle Tennessee | To provide one family-friendly event each month for 30 families with a child diagnosed with cancer or other life-threatening illness. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Jewish Family Service of Nashville and Middle TN, Inc. | Operating support for conducting adoption home studies, assisting with child placement and conducting post-placement supervision visits for the LGBTQ+ community | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Love Learning Music | To provide funding for Love Learning Music’s personnel administrating and providing music therapy and education programs that improve child development. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Make-A-Wish Middle Tennessee | To grant more wishes for kids with life-threatening illnesses in Middle Tennessee. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Mother To Mother | Mother To Mother is a non-profit organization that provides health and wellness items to mothers and children in need. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Nashville Children's Alliance | To provide trauma-focused care to child victims of physical abuse, sexual abuse, or have been exposed to violent crime. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Nashville Coaching Coalition | To develop over 600 full-hearted coaches who prepare young athletes for life. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Nashville Dolphins | To provide life-saving learn-to-swim lessons to the Middle TN special needs community at no cost to the participant. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Nashville Peacemakers | To provide 50 mothers who have lost loved ones to violence with trauma therapy and counseling to strengthen their communities. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Oasis Center | To provide programs, services, and affirming spaces for LGBTQ+ youth to help them reach their full potential. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Preston Taylor Ministries | To provide up to 225 low-income children and youth with mentoring, educational support, enrichment opportunities, and positive peer groups. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Rocketown of Middle Tennessee | Empower 5,000 at-risk/marginalized/underserved teens with guidance and mentoring, shielding them from negative influences, fostering community, offering HOPE, and changing futures. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Support and Training for Exceptional Parents, Inc. (dba TNSTEP) | To provide youth with disabilities opportunities to increase skills, explore careers, create lasting friendships, and successfully transition into adulthood. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Tennessee Aquatic Project & Development Group, LLC (TAP) | TAP trains under-resourced youth 8-18 years old in underwater, outdoor recreational activities, and STEAM education to maximize their potential. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | The F.I.N.D. Design | Empowering Black and brown girls (11-17) to conquer educational disparities through connection, resilience, and nurturing "Black Girl Joy." | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | The Wishes Foundation | To purchase new character costumes, purchase and restyle wigs to continue giving top-tier character performances to children in need. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | UniCycle | To collect and redistribute school uniforms to MNPS students, stocking in-school closets and supporting students in unstable housing through HERO. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Water Walkers | Using work experiences and life skills workshops, provide an intensive, 46-week leadership training program for 5-7 at-risk teens from Edgehill. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Why We Can't Wait, Inc. | The Ambassador program serves 35 boys (12-17), developing them physically, mentally, socially, emotionally, in collaboration with Vanderbilt University as leaders. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Youth Villages | To support more than 400 youth who are aging out of foster care and transitioning into independent living. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- EMERGENCY NEEDS | American Red Cross - Nashville Area | The American Red Cross will provide financial assistance to families who experience home fires as well as safety preparedness services. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- EMERGENCY NEEDS | Big Table | To help local hospitality workers maintain steady employment by supporting them in the areas of housing, transportation, and mental/physical health. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- EMERGENCY NEEDS | International Outreach Ministries | To provide nutrition and housing assistance to the underserved and vulnerable within the Nashville community. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- EMERGENCY NEEDS | Native American Indian Association of Tennessee | The NAIA seeks funding to support essential services for Native Americans in Tennessee including rent, food, and medical bill assistance. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- EMERGENCY NEEDS | NeedLink Nashville | To prevent eviction and homelessness for at least 20 low-income single-parent households with young children. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- EMERGENCY NEEDS | TN Voices | To provide emergency assistance to families in Robertson County who are at-risk or currently experiencing homelessness. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- SENIOR ADULTS | Guardianship and Trusts Corporation | Our program offers court-ordered services for vulnerable seniors who are indigent, abused, neglected, or exploited. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- SENIOR ADULTS | Mid-Cumberland Meals-on-Wheels | Provide pet food to homebound senior citizens so they can continue to enjoy the benefits of pet companionship. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- SENIOR ADULTS | Tennessee Kidney Foundation | Provide 5,304 AccessRide tickets to 17 low-income, older adults with kidney failure making 13 monthly roundtrips to life-saving dialysis care. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- WOMEN & MEN | Dismas House | To provide work readiness supplies to over 100 justice-involved men and women in our IPS program. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- WOMEN & MEN | Entrepreneur Latina Leaders of America, INC (ELLA) | ELLA assists 50 Latinas annually to start or sustain their small business through a nine-month course including mentoring and training. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- WOMEN & MEN | Family Reconciliation Center, Inc. | Expand awareness of FRC as a resource for visitation to incarcerated prisoners, increase the number and diversity of clients served. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- WOMEN & MEN | Hope for Justice | To combat the complexities of human trafficking in Tennessee through specialized training, referral follow up, investigations and public education. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- WOMEN & MEN | Miriam's Promise | Miriam's Promise offers options-based pregnancy counseling, child counseling, parenting coaching, and adoption-related services in Middle Tennessee. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- WOMEN & MEN | Nashville Anti-Human Trafficking Coalition | To mentor survivors of human trafficking and equip them with training and meaningful employment in a safe, hope-filled environment. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- WOMEN & MEN | Nashville Diaper Connection | To provide “Diapers for Diplomas” support for 125 parenting students enrolled in any of the four Middle Tennessee community colleges. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- WOMEN & MEN | Project Return | To support the successful new beginnings of people returning from incarceration by providing employment opportunities and wraparound services. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- WOMEN & MEN | Sexual Assault Center | To provide immediate and long-term support to everyone affected by sexual assault in middle TN through trauma-informed, evidence-based, comprehensive services. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- WOMEN & MEN | Shower the People | To provide mobile showers, laundry services and hygiene supplies to individuals in need throughout Davidson County. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- WOMEN & MEN | SongwritingWith:Soldiers | To support the collaborative songwriting programs for veterans and their families. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- WOMEN & MEN | Tennessee Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence | The Coalition seeks funds to support its mission of ending domestic and sexual violence in the lives of Tennesseans. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- WOMEN & MEN | Tennessee Innocence Project | To support wrongful conviction litigation for indigent Middle Tennesseans–ensuring justice for all means all, and educating people on the need. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- WOMEN & MEN | The Arc Tennessee | Supports individuals with disabilities and families with decision-making through education, resources, referrals, and future planning assistance to retain maximum independence. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- WOMEN & MEN | Welcome Home Ministries | To provide recovery housing and recovery support services for approximately 300 men who suffer from a substance use disorder. | DAVIDSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- WOMEN & MEN | Women of Color Collaborative | WOCC seeks to increase our capacity to guide women of color through participatory action research projects driven by their curiosity. | DAVIDSON |
| NEW AMERICANS | American Muslim Advisory Council | Provide assistance to Afghan and Kurdish refugees and asylum seekers in Nashville, while ensuring integration and well-being as New Americans. | DAVIDSON |
| NEW AMERICANS | Conexión Américas | To provide ESL classes for 170 non-native English speaking adults so they can become more integrated into our community. | DAVIDSON |
| NEW AMERICANS | Nashville International Center for Empowerment | To provide initial, transitional housing for 20 newly-arrived refugees families in Nashville. | DAVIDSON |
| NEW AMERICANS | Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC) | TIRRC provides critical education and legal services to Middle Tennessee’s immigrant and refugee community. | DAVIDSON |
| NEW AMERICANS | Tennessee Justice for Our Neighbors | TNJFON provides humanitarian immigration legal services to survivors of violence, persecution, and poverty and informs the public about immigration matters. | DAVIDSON |
| ANIMAL WELFARE | Cannon County Community For Animals | To provide spay and neuter for low income/fixed income to residents of Cannon County to end suffering/neglect for animals. | DEKALB |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Tennessee Tech University: Appalachian Center for Craft | Empower high-school art educators from any TN county to teach fine-craft lessons in their classrooms and provide access to resources. | DEKALB |
| FOOD, FOOD SECURITY, NUTRITION & AGRICULTURE | DeKalb County Board of Education-Coordinated School Health | To provide nonperishable food items on weekends and holiday breaks to approximately 200 Back Pack Program participants in PK-12 grades. | DEKALB |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | READ (Reading Empowerment for Adults in Dickson County) | To generate awareness of the opportunity for free one-on-one tutoring for adults wishing to improve their literacy skills. | DICKSON |
| ANIMAL WELFARE | Proverbs 12:10 Animal Rescue | We are looking to expand our s/n program and looking to start offering trainer help to owners. | DICKSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Charlotte Fagan Community Church | To provide affordable choral music education and enrichment to children and adults of all ages in Dickson and surrounding areas. | DICKSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Clement Railroad Hotel Museum | This project seeks to enhance the community experience with the museum by updating historical narratives and providing educational resources. | DICKSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Renaissance Players | To procure rights for 4 productions to be performed in Dickson County in 2024, continuing live theatre in the area. | DICKSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | The Quest Center For Arts and Community Development | Providing affordable, year-round music education & youth development programs for over 1,850 children living in rural, lower-income communities. | DICKSON |
| COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, IMPROVEMENT & PLANNING | First Presbyterian Church | To provide facilities for various community agencies which focus on education, recovery, and service in Dickson County. | DICKSON |
| EDUCATION | Burns Middle School | A multi-sensory environment establishing meaningful relationships, offering a safe place to help students cope with various disabilities and behavior issues. | DICKSON |
| EDUCATION | CareNet Pregnancy Medical Center | To provide education to clients and to send vital information to clients through text or email. | DICKSON |
| EDUCATION | Centennial Elementary | To create engaging learning environments as well as promote positive behavior, good attendance, and boost teacher morale. | DICKSON |
| EDUCATION | Charlotte Elementary School | To provide incentives and rewards for teachers & students who demonstrate above average behavior, attendance and attitudes. | DICKSON |
| EDUCATION | Dickson County High School | We are wanting to purchase vaping sensors in our student restrooms to prevent vaping. | DICKSON |
| EDUCATION | Dickson Elementary | To provide faculty and staff incentives throughout the year in order to raise teacher morale. | DICKSON |
| EDUCATION | Dickson Middle School | To provide our students with the social emotional and organizational support they need to be successful in all future endeavors. | DICKSON |
| EDUCATION | Drug Free Dickson Coalition | To provide substance misuse prevention to Dickson County youth. | DICKSON |
| EDUCATION | Friends of Lonesome Historic Site | To create a professional educational interpretative planning document for the historic site, which will complement the existing Master Plan. | DICKSON |
| EDUCATION | Oakmont Elementary School | To provide materials for instruction for teachers at a public elementary school | DICKSON |
| EDUCATION | Stuart-Burns Elementary | To motivate students in realizing the importance of attending school, and how it affects their future success. | DICKSON |
| EDUCATION | The Discovery School - Dickson County Schools | To provide supplementary materials to teachers to support classroom instruction. To provide attendance and behavior incentives for staff and students. | DICKSON |
| EDUCATION | Vanleer Elementary | Develop social skills essential for thriving in the classroom environment, fostering a love for reading and decreasing chronic absenteeism. | DICKSON |
| EDUCATION | White Bluff Elementary | To provide incentives for attendance and positive behavior among students, as well as, to provide opportunities for boosting teacher morale. | DICKSON |
| EDUCATION | William James Middle School | To provide areas for students to be in an outdoor learning and social environment for improved learning outcomes. | DICKSON |
| HEALTH | Dickson Community Clinic | The Dickson Community Clinic provides primary healthcare, laboratory, imaging studies and referral services for the uninsured of Dickson and counties. | DICKSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | CASA of the Highland Rim | To provide funding in support of volunteer training, recruitment, retention, and travel reimbursements for CASA Advocates to visit their children. | DICKSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Dickson County Help Center, Inc. | To provide assistance to families in need of food, utilities, and housing. | DICKSON |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | Community Action Committee | To support current operations of the food pantry and emergency assistance programs. | FRANKLIN |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | Early Literacy Ambassadors | Our goal is to expand our Reading Group program in order to offer free reading intervention for 45 at-risk students. | FRANKLIN |
| ANIMAL WELFARE | Franklin County Humane Society (Animal Harbor) | Provide emergency and routine vet care and transport as needed for 550 homeless companion animals. | FRANKLIN |
| ANIMAL WELFARE | Ziggy's Tree Wildlife Rehabilitation | To provide care for Tennessee's orphaned and injured native wildlife with the goal of returning them to their natural habitats. | FRANKLIN |
| EDUCATION | West Middle School | The request for Community Grant Funds is to provide economically disadvantaged students with school supplies, clothing, & personal hygiene items. | FRANKLIN |
| FOOD, FOOD SECURITY, NUTRITION & AGRICULTURE | Good Samaritan Ministries of Franklin County | Provide food boxes and utility assistance to Franklin County residents in need. | FRANKLIN |
| ANIMAL WELFARE | Hickman Humane Society Inc | To provide spay/neuter services for dogs and cats owned by citizens of Hickman County with limited financial means. | HICKMAN |
| HOUSING & SHELTER | Women Are Safe, Inc. | To provide life saving shelter and related services to victims of domestic violence in rural Tennessee. | HICKMAN |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- EMERGENCY NEEDS | Bethesda Community Mission, Inc | We will assist approximately 115 families with utilities, rent, prescription assistance, and home repairs when needed. | HOUSTON |
| ANIMAL WELFARE | Humphreys County Humane Society | To assist the Shelter and community in complying with new changes to TN laws for sheltering outside dogs. | HUMPHREYS |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Friends of Johnsonville State Historic Park | Locate and document multiple buildings & gravesites of African-Americans and WWI Veterans adding stories for the Park & community. | HUMPHREYS |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Granville Museum Inc | To reach a more diverse audience and provide diversity in programming in 2024 while preserving the history of the area. | JACKSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- SENIOR ADULTS | Lawrence County Senior Citizens Club, Inc. | Funds will be used to cover a yearly cost of bus rental and advertising for a monthly day trip. | LAWRENCE |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- WOMEN & MEN | Working Dogs For Vets | To provide Service dogs and training for 75 disabled veterans in Middle Tennessee reducing suicide and overcrowding in shelters | LAWRENCE |
| FOOD, FOOD SECURITY, NUTRITION & AGRICULTURE | Hope Hohenwald Inc. | To provide life coaching for 500 families receiving food assistance through the bi-weekly food distribution in Lewis County. | LEWIS |
| ANIMAL WELFARE | Humane Society of Lincoln County | Comprehensive spay and neuter program helping both owned and homeless pets in Lincoln County. | LINCOLN |
| ANIMAL WELFARE | Southern Alliance For Animal Welfare/Lincoln Co. | To provide spay/neuter surgery to dogs and cats belonging to low income families in Middle Tennessee. | LINCOLN |
| ANIMAL WELFARE | Macon Spay Neuter Assistance | To provide low cost spay neuter assistance for the pets of Macon county residents. | MACON |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | Charlie's Angels Saving Animals | To save TN shelter animals from euthanasia via out-of-state transport and assist in reducing the stray population with spay/neuter. | MAURY |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | Delta Recovery Solutions | To build a caring community of support around alcoholics, addicts, and their families in early recovery. | MAURY |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Columbia State Community College Foundation | To support Columbia State's Performance Series, which provides a quality performing arts experience to the community and surrounding rural region. | MAURY |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Watershed Public Theatre | To provide operating support for Watershed Public Theatre’s 2023-24 season of productions and programs. | MAURY |
| EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING | Neighbors Concerned, Inc | We are a food pantry providing food for the people and pets in need in Maury County Tennessee. | MAURY |
| HEALTH | The Sickle Cell Foundation of Middle Tennessee | The Sickle Cell Visionary Health Program is a health and wellness program for people living with Sickle Cell Disease. | MAURY |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- WOMEN & MEN | Center of Hope | To provide emergency housing to victims of domestic violence and/or sexual assault to heal from trauma. | MAURY |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | The Irene Center for Hope | to hire an administrative assistant and purchase basic office equipment and supplies for our new non-profit | MONTGOMERY |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Gateway Chamber Orchestra | To present an ethnically, stylistically diverse performance of The Nutcracker, with newly commissioned music by Costa Rican composer Vinicio Meza. | MONTGOMERY |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Roxy Productions, Inc. | To support a musical production of YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN at the Roxy Regional Theatre in March 2024 | MONTGOMERY |
| EDUCATION | Armed Services YMCA Fort Campbell | To provide free or low-cost programs and services for military, spouses, and the family unit to ease unique military challenges. | MONTGOMERY |
| HEALTH | Minds Matter | To provide outpatient mental health care to underserved populations to include military veterans and Medicaid recipients. | MONTGOMERY |
| HEALTH | SAFE Soldiers and Families Embraced | SAFE will provide free, confidential and professional mental health counseling to Active-Duty Service Members, Veterans, First Responders and their families. | MONTGOMERY |
| HOUSING & SHELTER | Clarksville Area Urban Ministries | To provide emergency hotel rooms for the unhoused that have children, medical conditions or are over the age of 60. | MONTGOMERY |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- WOMEN & MEN | Manna Cafe Ministries | To provide basic needs and restore lives through direct support services for 30,000 low-income adults and children across two counties. | MONTGOMERY |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- WOMEN & MEN | YAIPak Outreach | To provide support and resources to homeless veterans. | MONTGOMERY |
| ANIMAL WELFARE | PAWS of Dale Hollow | To provide community spay/neuter financial assistance and to provide continuing funding for the feral cat trap, neuter, release program. | PICKETT |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | West End Connection | To provide access to the arts/art programs for the West End Community, who do not typically have such access programs. | PUTNAM |
| ANIMAL WELFARE | Wags and Whiskers Pet Rescue, Inc. | Subsidize spay/neuter services for about 258 dogs/cats owned by low-income families. | PUTNAM |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Bryan Symphony Orchestra Association | To engage, enrich, and educate the Upper Cumberland region (our community) through the performance of live music. | PUTNAM |
| COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, IMPROVEMENT & PLANNING | Heart of the Cumberland Inc | To provide funding for a part-time program assistant, a data base for volunteers & participants, and expansion to Hispanic community. | PUTNAM |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- EMERGENCY NEEDS | Helping Hands of Putnam County | Optimize HHPC's funding for general operations, addressing rising rent/food costs, accounting services, and overall expenses with enhanced efficiency. | PUTNAM |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- SENIOR ADULTS | Putnam County Senior Citizens | Implementing, while maintaining, programs and services which promote and improve personal independence, self-sufficiency, health, for overall quality of life. | PUTNAM |
| ANIMAL WELFARE | Forget-Me-Not Animal Rescue | To provide rescue, vetting, foster care and adoption for shelter cats and dogs at risk of euthanasia. | ROBERTSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Robertson County Historical Society | To salary to make our part time director full time in order to expand the museum's programming. | ROBERTSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Willow Oak Center for Arts | To provide partial funding for the new Assistant Executive Director position. | ROBERTSON |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | Diamond Youth Development | To provide self-confidence and leadership development to 20 girls of color ages 9-14 in Rutherford County. | RUTHERFORD |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | Stepping Stone Academy Foundation | To provide 10 pregnant and parenting teenage mothers with mentorship and resources towards independence in themselves and their children. | RUTHERFORD |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | Working Mission | To provide beginner and intermediate ESL classes and Driver's Ed to refugees and international communities in Rutherford County. | RUTHERFORD |
| ANIMAL WELFARE | Beesley Animal Foundation | To offer spay/neuter surgeries for cats and dogs, ensuring accessibility at a cost of $30 per pet for clients. | RUTHERFORD |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Children's Museum Corporation of Rutherford County dba Discovery Center | To provide two 2-month Artist-in-Residence programs for two Tennessee artists and corresponding public programming for Discovery Center visitors. | RUTHERFORD |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Dancing Through the Curriculum | To provide dance training and performance opportunities to 100+ girls residing in Middle Tennessee. | RUTHERFORD |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Ethos Youth Ensembles | Ethos provides musically enriching opportunities for student musicians (grades 2-12), the community, and area schools through weekly instruction and concerts. | RUTHERFORD |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Main Street Murfreesboro | To provide free, family friendly music and arts focused events in the historic downtown public square creating placemaking. | RUTHERFORD |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Tennessee Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra Association, Inc | Educate young students on the importance of musical arts using STEAM programs that correlate with Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | RUTHERFORD |
| COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, IMPROVEMENT & PLANNING | Mindful Care Adult Day Service | To preserve independence and prevent institutionalization for 19 or more cognitively impaired older adults, while providing support and caregiver respite. | RUTHERFORD |
| EDUCATION | Possibility Place | To provide an educational day program to adults with special needs, from daily living skills to vocational skills. | RUTHERFORD |
| EDUCATION | Read To Succeed | To provide students with brand-new, high-interest, culturally relevant, contemporary books for participation in community book club with peers. | RUTHERFORD |
| EDUCATION | The Carrie Mae Williams Center | To provide entrepreneurship education to 50 youth in grades K-12 who have at least one Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE's). | RUTHERFORD |
| FOOD, FOOD SECURITY, NUTRITION & AGRICULTURE | Greenhouse Ministries | Spring House provides food, clothing, hygiene products, and household items to families in need, fostering community support and alleviating hardship. | RUTHERFORD |
| HEALTH | Journeys In Community Living | To provide health care oversight for 100 adults with disabilities in order for them to maintain optimal health. | RUTHERFORD |
| HEALTH | Rutherford County Primary Care Clinic Inc. | To expand low-cost pharmacy services to our patients in Smyrna. | RUTHERFORD |
| HEALTH | Special Kids, Inc. | To provide operational support for Special Kids ongoing program expenses thus filling the gap between insurance reimbursement and program costs. | RUTHERFORD |
| HOUSING & SHELTER | Domestic Violence Program, Inc. | To provide wraparound supportive services and financial support to individuals and/or families fleeing domestic violence at our emergency safe shelter. | RUTHERFORD |
| HOUSING & SHELTER | Murfreesboro Cold Patrol | To be able to provide more wrap-around case management and resource support to individuals experiencing homelessness in Murfreesboro. | RUTHERFORD |
| HOUSING & SHELTER | The Journey Home | TJH is seeking $20,000 in funding from the CFMT to support a variety of services for people experiencing homelessness. | RUTHERFORD |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | CASA of Rutherford County | To recruit, train, and administratively support volunteers in Juvenile Court who advocate for children who have experienced abuse or neglect. | RUTHERFORD |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Child Advocacy Center of Rutherford County, Inc. | To provide crisis intervention services to child abuse and child sexual abuse victims, drug-endangered children, and their non-offending caregivers. | RUTHERFORD |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Endure Athletics Foundation | To provide a free-fee after school program for homeless children and youth. | RUTHERFORD |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Prevention Coalition for Success | To increase peer recovery support services in Rutherford County Safe Baby Court for parents struggling with substance use disorder | RUTHERFORD |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Stepping Stones Safe Haven | To provide supportive services (parenting education, developmental assessment, and resource linkage) to at least 45 families served in the shelter. | RUTHERFORD |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- EMERGENCY NEEDS | Community Helpers of Rutherford County | To provide emergency financial assistance with rent, utilities, and prescriptions to over 1000 Rutherford County residents annually. | RUTHERFORD |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- EMERGENCY NEEDS | Hope Station | To assist single working mothers who do not qualify for any state assistance with utility, water, and rent/mortgage. | RUTHERFORD |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- WOMEN & MEN | Doors of Hope | To provide evidence-based mental health and substance abuse transitional living program for women offenders reentering the community from incarceration. | RUTHERFORD |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- WOMEN & MEN | Portico Inc. | Provide parenting and life skills education and support for 60 young fathers experiencing unintended or untimely pregnancy. | RUTHERFORD |
| ANIMAL WELFARE | Humane Society Dover-Stewart County | To assist stray felines with medical care and/or spays or neuters for 150-200 felines. | STEWART |
| ANIMAL WELFARE | Stewart County Animal Management Program (SCAMP) | To fund our low cost spay/neuter program that is available for residents of our county. | STEWART |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | Global Education Connection Inc | Provide refugee children in the Nashville area with educational materials and art supplies to assist in their education and development. | SUMNER |
| ANIMAL WELFARE | Sumner Spay Neuter Alliance | To provide spay/neuter and vaccinations to 1000 Sumner County cats that would not otherwise receive veterinary care. | SUMNER |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Borderless Arts Tennessee | To provide 15 young adults with disabilities knowledge and skills of art techniques used during WWII | SUMNER |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center | EC:CO (Exhibition Connect: Community Outreach) Program support, offering FREE year-round art-making activities benefiting 2500+ underserved Middle TN youth and families. | SUMNER |
| EDUCATION | Unlimited Potential Community Development Corporation | Requesting general operating funds for utilities and administrative expenses for on-going programs providing clients with local resources, mentoring and development. | SUMNER |
| FOOD, FOOD SECURITY, NUTRITION & AGRICULTURE | Hands of Hope Food Pantry | To provide food and hygiene products for food insecure residents of Sumner County. | SUMNER |
| HEALTH | Friends of Sumner Regional Medical Center | Friends of Sumner Regional Medical Center requests grant support for the “Swaddle Me”, program for safe baby sleep. | SUMNER |
| HEALTH | Pink Christmas | The grant funds will increase the number of breast cancer survivors who receive gift cards and Mother's Day scholarships. | SUMNER |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- SENIOR ADULTS | Community Life Bridge | To enhance quality of life for mature adults (60+) in our community through affordable, assisted transportation. | SUMNER |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- SENIOR ADULTS | Home Bound Meals Program | Allowing the elderly the dignity to stay in their home by providing friendship and a hot meal 5/days wk. | SUMNER |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- WOMEN & MEN | Jumbled Dreams Changing Lives | To provide backpacks filled with winter supplies and toiletries to the homeless and other persons in need | SUMNER |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- WOMEN & MEN | Recovery Court of Sumner County, Inc. | To provide an operating grant to partially cover special needs of nonviolent substance abusing offenders enrolled in our program | SUMNER |
| ANIMAL WELFARE | Fix Trousdale | Fix Trousdale is a spay neuter assistance program for local dogs and cats, reducing animal population and improving health. | TROUSDALE |
| FOOD, FOOD SECURITY, NUTRITION & AGRICULTURE | Community Help Center of Trousdale County | Expand availability of food options to underprivileged seeking assistance in Trousdale and surrounding counties. | TROUSDALE |
| ANIMAL WELFARE | Pauls Clinic, Inc. | To subsidize the cost to sterilize 400 community cats and dogs residing in low-income households. | WARREN |
| FOOD, FOOD SECURITY, NUTRITION & AGRICULTURE | Warren County Home Delivery Meals, Inc | To provide hot nutritional meals to the elderly and/or handicapped individuals who are not able to care for themselves. | WARREN |
| ANIMAL WELFARE | White County Humane Society | To provide financial assistance to 333 pet owners who could otherwise not afford to have their pets spayed or neutered. | WHITE |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | Jonathan's Path | To provide stable, long-term housing, social and emotional support, and life-enriching events for foster teens in the state of Tennessee. | WILLIAMSON |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | NoahBRAVE Foundation | To provide financial support to 100 families facing terminal brain cancer and fund research for a cure of brain cancer. | WILLIAMSON |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | One WillCo | We request $5,000 in operating support to provide desperately needed paid administrative help for the organization's leaders. | WILLIAMSON |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | ShareBuilt | Be the bridge between local nonprofits with design and construction needs and the design and construction firms critical to success. | WILLIAMSON |
| ANIMAL WELFARE | Friends of Williamson County Animal Center | Provide spay/neuter services for 1,200 community pets at no cost to families that pre-qualify based on household income. | WILLIAMSON |
| ANIMAL WELFARE | Heaven Can Wait Animal Rescue and Sanctuary | Provide sanctuary care (vet, medications, whatever is needed) for dogs that are traumatized, too ill, injured or require hospice care | WILLIAMSON |
| ANIMAL WELFARE | People For Animals | People For Animals helps financially needy applicants pay for spay/neuter of dogs and cats in Middle Tennessee. | WILLIAMSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Heritage Foundation of Williamson County, TN | Student Theatre & Music Business Intensive Summer Camp program benefiting 350 middle and high school students. | WILLIAMSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | The Gift of Song | To provide a free musical-theatre program to youth ages 7-18. | WILLIAMSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Waves, Inc. | To provide music lessons and engagement to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities participating in Waves Adult Day Services. | WILLIAMSON |
| EDUCATION | High Hopes Development Center | To provide inclusive, standards-based learning resources that support High Hopes’ diverse preschool population of approximately 100 students. | WILLIAMSON |
| EDUCATION | N.O.O.K. | To serve public schools in Williamson County by providing new clothing and hygiene items, on demand, for students in need. | WILLIAMSON |
| EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING | BrightStone, Inc. | To teach and foster greater independence for adults with disabilities by creating a farm to store job experience and marketplace. | WILLIAMSON |
| ENVIRONMENT & CONSERVATION | Harpeth Conservancy | Equip Middle Tennesseans with the tools needed to protect critically polluted rivers through community-powered river restoration and citizen science | WILLIAMSON |
| FOOD, FOOD SECURITY, NUTRITION & AGRICULTURE | One Generation Away | Six Mobile Pantries, each serving at least 200 families a grocery cart full of food for free, no questions asked. | WILLIAMSON |
| HEALTH | Blind and Charity Fund of the Downtown Nashville Lions Club | To fund approximately 50% of the Blind and Charity Fund's annual budget to provide new eyeglasses to 84 indigent Nashvillians. | WILLIAMSON |
| HEALTH | LTC | LTC provides re-entry programming to displaced/formerly incarcerated women residing in recovery and/or transitional housing agencies in Middle Tennessee. | WILLIAMSON |
| HOUSING & SHELTER | Rebuilding Together Nashville | To preserve affordable housing, prevent the displacement of low-income families, and empower seniors to age in place through home repairs. | WILLIAMSON |
| HOUSING & SHELTER | ShowerUp | To expand mobile showers and personal care to the homeless population in under-served camps in and around the Nashville area. | WILLIAMSON |
| HOUSING & SHELTER | Tucker's House | To create safer, more accessible homes and environments for children and young adults with disabilities. | WILLIAMSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | ABLE Youth | To partially cover operating expenses of our Sports and Independence Program which teaches independent living skills to youth in wheelchairs. | WILLIAMSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Assistance League of Nashville | Assistance League of Nashville, an all volunteer 501(c)3 organization, needs funding to provide clothing/supplies for disadvantaged/homeless children of Metro Nashville. | WILLIAMSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Cooper Trooper Foundation | To enhance Sibling Courage Kits that provide resources and emotional support to siblings of children diagnosed with cancer. | WILLIAMSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Davis House Child Advocacy Center | To continue providing forensic interviews, trauma therapy, courtroom advocacy, and prevention education to sexually abused children in Middle Tennessee. | WILLIAMSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Jordan Thomas Foundation | Provide support to children living with limb differences including access to prostheses, social/emotional support, and mentorship opportunities. | WILLIAMSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | My Bag My Story | To provide new, high-quality duffle bags to 2000 foster children currently being provided with trash bags to carry their belongings. | WILLIAMSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Nashville Youth Sports Club, Inc. | To provide opportunities for poverty-stricken youth in Middle TN to grow mentally, athletically, spiritually, and socially through sport. | WILLIAMSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- EMERGENCY NEEDS | GraceWorks | GraceWorks’s goal is to provide rent and/or utility assistance to 2,200 individuals this fiscal year. | WILLIAMSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- EMERGENCY NEEDS | Tennessee Breast Cancer Coalition | To provide immediate & direct financial support for Tennessee breast cancer patients struggling with mounting medical expenses | WILLIAMSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- WOMEN & MEN | Bridges of Williamson County dba Bridges Domestic Violence Center | Bridges’ Specific Assistance helps ~2,000 DV victims/families with healthcare, childcare, diapers, replacement certificates and licenses, transportation, and minor car repair. | WILLIAMSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- WOMEN & MEN | Healing Housing, Inc. | To provide 20 Healing Housing residents with a dental evaluation, cleaning, x-rays, and other oral health services. | WILLIAMSON |
| JUMPSTART GRANTS | Volunteer Network | To support operating a streamlined hub for volunteerism for ongoing needs and in times of disaster in Wilson County. | WILSON |
| ANIMAL WELFARE | New Leash on Life (Humane Association of Wilson Co) | To provide spay/neuter services (and other vet recommended care) to pets and community cats with focus on rural areas | WILSON |
| ARTS & HUMANITIES | Actors Point Theatre Company, Inc | To provide support for Actors Point Theatre company for the production of shows, artist pay and arts education and camps. | WILSON |
| EDUCATION | FUTURO, Inc. | FUTURO’s career-readiness programming connects Latino students to internship, employment, and entrepreneurship opportunities through leadership development, career growth, and civic engagement. | WILSON |
| HEALTH | Sherry's Hope | To assist local families in who are need of financial assistance due to a cancer diagnosis. | WILSON |
| HOUSING & SHELTER | Compassionate Hands | To provide operational and resource expenses to the unhoused for improvement and quality of life. | WILSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Empower Me Center | To Provide Summer Day Camp, an Adult Day Program and 15 Year-Round Respite and Enrichment Activities for individuals with disabilities. | WILSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILDREN & YOUTH | Wilson County Civic League, Inc. | To provide a summer arts academy during summer 2024 for grades third through eight at the Market Street Community Center. | WILSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- SENIOR ADULTS | Mt. Juliet-West Wilson Co Senior Citizens/Service Ctr | To continue providing Ballroom Dance Therapy, Chair Yoga, Physioball Yoga, Senior Exercise Program and Dance Fit to our seniors. | WILSON |
| HUMAN SERVICES -- WOMEN & MEN | Rest Stop Ministries, Inc. | To provide residential housing, trauma-informed comprehensive services and economic empowerment opportunities to adult female survivors of sex trafficking and exploitation. | WILSON |
About Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee
Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee unites compassionate individuals and worthy causes while aiming to build a more thriving and inclusive community by transforming thoughtful generosity into positive change. Its generous donors span the community and are driven by a shared commitment to addressing diverse needs. For more information, call 615-321-4939.
