Congratulations to The Community Foundation’s 2019 Grantees
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, a charitable organization dedicated to enriching the quality of life in 40 Middle Tennessee counties and beyond, announces $2,397,870 in grants to 365 local nonprofit organizations as part of the 2019 annual grantmaking process.
The grants will benefit nonprofits in 28 area counties: Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Coffee, Cumberland, Davidson, DeKalb, Dickson, Franklin, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys, Jackson, Lincoln, Macon, Maury, Montgomery, Overton, Pickett, Putnam, Rutherford, Smith, Stewart, Sumner, Warren, White, Williamson and Wilson counties.
The top three awards categories were: Arts and Humanities (18 percent), Human Services-Children (15 percent of the grants), and Education (14 percent).
“The Community Foundation is honored to connect generosity with need through these annual grants and through other avenues throughout the year, but we couldn’t have the impact we do without the many nonprofits offering solutions to our community’s needs and vital services to our neighbors,” said Ellen Lehman, president of The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee. “Thanks to the generous support of our donors, and the work of dedicated and talented nonprofits, we are able to fund solutions which address Middle Tennessee’s emerging needs and opportunities.”
The 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 citizens through valuable programs and innovative services.
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| County | Organization | Grant Description |
|---|---|---|
| Bedford | Caregiver Relief Program of Bedford County | To provide $100 monthly for respite care reimbursement 15 Alzheimer's families & provide the Music & Memory program to families. |
| Bedford | Community Clinic of Shelbyville & Bedford County | To provide blood pressure monitors for 50 diabetic and hypertensive patients to maintain normal blood pressure levels. |
| Bedford | Middle Tennessee Spay and Neuter Clinic Inc | To reduce the feline overpopulation in Middle Tennessee counties by providing free spay/neuter surgeries for 400 community and feral cats. |
| Bedford | The Center for Family Development | To provide educational and enrichment groups for 100 youth and teens enrolled in the South Central Relative Caregiver Program. |
| Cannon | Cannon County Senior Center | To provide handicap accessibility to clean and filtered water for seniors, to improve health and hydration while sustaining the environment. |
| Cannon | CASA of Cannon County | The mission of CASA of Cannon County Tennessee is to recruit, train, and support volunteers to represent, advocate for children. |
| Cheatham | Ark Community Resource and Assistance Center | To provide a weekly food pantry to approximately 400 individuals per month. |
| Cheatham | Cheatham County Animal Awareness Foundation | Low cost spay neuter program for companion animals of low-income Cheatham County residents. |
| Cheatham | Cheatham County Soccer Association | The purpose shall be to develop, promote, advance, and administer the sport of soccer among youth players |
| Cheatham | Pegram Elementary School | To provide enriching art experiences for elementary school students in an underfunded, rural school district. |
| Coffee | Bel-Aire Elementary School | Providing job skills training and experience to approximately 60 fifth grade students. |
| Coffee | CASA Works, Inc. | To provide recordable and sharable books for parents to read to their children while they are not in parents custody. |
| Coffee | Citizens for Homeless Relief, Inc. | To provide temporary shelter, clothes, food and basic needs for the homeless. |
| Coffee | City of Manchester | Rehabilitation of abandoned African American school site into a park in a low income neighborhood. |
| Coffee | City of Tullahoma Animal Shelter | The Tullahoma Animal Shelter is seeking 5000 dollars to help provide emergency care to dogs that enter the shelter. |
| Coffee | Coffee County Children's Advocacy Center | To provide child abuse awareness and prevention education workshops and activities for 1,750 children and 225 adults. |
| Coffee | Coffee County Humane Society | To provide financial assistance to low income families for veterinary care when their pet has a severe injury or illness |
| Coffee | Coffee County Imagination Library | To provide one high quality, age appropriate, Imagination Library book each month to 500 children birth-5 in Coffee County. |
| Coffee | Coffee County Schools Family Resource Center | To become come a fully inclusive Trauma-Informed School District. |
| Coffee | College Street Elementary | Provide interventional read and ride lab with stationary bike/desks for students at College Elementary. |
| Coffee | Deerfield Elementary | To provide food for our Deerfield Backpack Program, coats, shoes, and school supplies for Deerfield Students in need. |
| Coffee | East Lincoln Elementary School | To provide our Students of poverty attending East Lincoln Elementary School with basic essentials to meet their individual needs. |
| Coffee | East Middle School | East Middle School proposes to offer a program which will help meet the basic needs of economically disadvantaged students. |
| Coffee | Haven of Hope | To provide enhanced domestic and sexual violence victim services in under-served rural counties through case management, counseling, and client assistance |
| Coffee | Hospice of the Highland Rim Foundation, Inc. | To meet unmet need, reduce financial stress and improve quality of life during patient's final days on hospice. |
| Coffee | Partners for Healing, Inc | To improve the health of patients by providing on-site, low-cost laboratory testing. |
| Coffee | Robert E. Lee Elementary | Allow students the opportunity to attend BizTown. |
| Coffee | Sportsmen and Professional Men of Coffee County Inc. | To provide basic need services and items -- vision, dental, healthcare, hygiene, clothing, shoes, and food services for children. |
| Coffee | Tullahoma City Schools | To provide students and teachers mindfulness resource boxes to aid students in reducing anxiety and improving focus. |
| Coffee | Tullahoma Day Care Center | To provide 30 students of poverty and a parent with an enrichment experience by visiting the Tennessee Aquarium, Chattanooga, Tennessee. |
| Coffee | Westwood Elementary | Provide interventional read and ride lab with stationary bike/desks for students at Westwood Elementary. |
| Cumberland | Art Guild at Fairfield Glade | To provide art classes at Fair Park Senior Center in Crossville, TN and Good Samaritan Society, in FG, TN. |
| Cumberland | Wags and Whiskers Pet Rescue, Inc. | To provide financial assistance for spay/neuter of community dogs and cats |
| Davidson | A Step Ahead Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc. | To provide free long-acting reversible contraception to 120 mothers age 28 and younger by partnering with local health clinics. |
| Davidson | abrasiveMedia, Inc. | A touring theatrical production that helps students prevent bullying, violence, and sexual assault in Middle TN high schools. |
| Davidson | Actors Bridge Ensemble Theater of Nashville Inc | To create a professional training program for emerging theater directors of color to be employed by all local theater companies. |
| Davidson | Adventure Science Center Nashville | Support Adventure Science Center's Science in Motion outreach programming, reaching over 12,000 people in Middle Tennessee. |
| Davidson | Advocates for Women's and Kids' Equality (AWAKE) Inc. | Our goal is to teach 500 women and children to be self-advocates so they advocate for change in their communities. |
| Davidson | Agape Animal Rescue | To provide spay or neuter surgeries to 100 abandoned dogs to prepare them for permanent adoption. |
| Davidson | AGAPE/Association for Guidance Aid Placement & Empathy | To provide emergency funds for domestic violence victims who need gas cards, bus passes, prescription drugs, dental work, eyeglasses, etc. |
| Davidson | ALIAS Chamber Ensemble | To fund the ALIAS in the Community program (AIC), which brings classical music and educational programming into schools/community organizations. |
| Davidson | ALS Association-Tennessee Chapter | Equipment and communication devices loaned to clients in need due to impaired/absent mobility or ability to speak. |
| Davidson | Amputee Blade Runners | To provide free sports prosthetics and support services to 11 lower-limb amputee children seeking to engage in an active lifestyle. |
| Davidson | Andrew Jackson Foundation | Immediate masonry repairs are needed at Tulip Grove Mansion, a historically significant home owned by the Andrew Jackson Foundation. |
| Davidson | Aphesis House, Inc. | To provide emergency support for 22 ex-offenders returning to the community and assist them on their crime-free path to self-sufficiency. |
| Davidson | Arc of Davidson County & Greater Nashville | Promote, protect and advocate for the right of people with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities to live self-determined, meaningful lives in inclusive communities. |
| Davidson | Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville | To enhance education offerings which provide artists and creative organizations with critical entrepreneurial skills needed to build thriving, sustainable businesses. |
| Davidson | ASMT, Inc. (Autism Tennessee) | To provide Middle Tennessee agencies and parent groups with the latest in Autism-specific, evidence-based consulting/training services delivered by licensed/qualified professionals. |
| Davidson | Assistance League of Nashville | To purchase long sleeve tee shirts for 2,000 economically disadvantaged elementary students attending Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS). |
| Davidson | Backfield in Motion | Providing literacy, tutoring, and remedial programs for 200 male elementary, middle, and high school students afterschool, focusing on Bellshire Elementary. |
| Davidson | Begin Anew of Middle Tennessee | Expand programming offering ESL classes for Madison site and implement organization-wide volunteer forum providing feedback, training and best practice sharing |
| Davidson | BELL Garden Bellevue Middle School Edible Learning Lab | To install an irrigation system to conserve water and resources, cut labor costs, improve garden output and enhance existing programs. |
| Davidson | Bethlehem Centers of Nashville | To provide produce monthly to 39 Seniors participating in the Active Seniors Club, as well as meals at session activities. |
| Davidson | Better Decisions | To provide decision-making training and mentoring to 30-50 adult females incarcerated in Nashville, soon to be released or paroled. |
| Davidson | Big Brothers Big Sisters of Middle Tennessee | To provide one-to-one mentoring relationships to 300 or more children of prisoners through the Amachi program. |
| Davidson | Book'em | This proposal will allow economically disadvantaged youth to engage with local children's book writers and illustrators and own their books. |
| Davidson | Boys and Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee | Boys & Girls Clubs' SMART Girls program allows adolescent girls to build healthy attitudes and skills for adulthood. |
| Davidson | Bridges for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing | Encourage ASL and English language acquisition for at least 17 Deaf or hard of hearing students through language-focused afterschool program. |
| Davidson | Building Lives Foundation | To provide housing and rehabilitation to 17 veterans suffering from or at-risk of homelessness due to addiction or mental illness. |
| Davidson | Catholic Charities of Tennessee | The Living At Home program for low income Nashville seniors innovatively addresses client aging-in-place needs, including prescription co-pays, and transportation. |
| Davidson | Centennial Park Conservancy | To support free 2020 artist performances at Musicians Corner's family-friendly concert series in Centennial Park. |
| Davidson | Centerstone Foundation, Inc. | Continuing a therapeutic support group focused on suicide prevention with the goal of helping 32 to 40 individuals this year. |
| Davidson | chatterbird | To fund outreach events and one free community performance by chatterbird. |
| Davidson | Cheekwood | Destination Cheekwood provides enriching, multi-generational outings, with all expenses covered, for low-income Tennessee students and their family members. |
| Davidson | Christian Cooperative Ministry | Provide healthy food, water and hygiene products to an average of 350 homeless people monthly. |
| Davidson | Communities In Schools of Tennessee | To support at-risk MNPS students in poverty, providing effective case management to help them stay in school and graduate on-time. |
| Davidson | Community Care Fellowship | |
| Davidson | Conexion Americas | To provide microentreneurship training to 220 Latino immigrant adults. |
| Davidson | Council on Aging of Greater Nashville | To launch an intergenerational, home sharing program for 20 older adults and graduate students as an affordable housing solution. |
| Davidson | Country Music Foundation | Words & Music is a curriculum-based lyric-writing program that creates opportunities for teachers and students to collaborate with Nashville songwriters. |
| Davidson | CreatiVets | To prevent suicide, CreatiVets offers combat veterans struggling with post-traumatic stress and other injuries access to art and music programs. |
| Davidson | Crossroads Campus | To increase the employability of the young people in our workforce development program by providing additional training opportunities. |
| Davidson | Cumberland River Compact | To provide 15 Antioch Middle School teachers with training and educational resources to supplement their environmental sciences and engineering curriculum. |
| Davidson | Dancing Through the Curriculum (DTC) | To provide character development and dance class sessions to 90 minority girls residing in low income communities in Southeast Nashville. |
| Davidson | Disability Rights Tennessee | To remove language barriers for Davidson County's Spanish speaking students with disabilities by translating access materials and advocacy services. |
| Davidson | Dismas, Inc. | To provide high quality, comprehensive dental care to 50 men who have been formerly incarcerated |
| Davidson | East Nashville Hope Exchange, Inc. | To provide literacy programming to students grades K-4 and their families, thereby reducing the literacy gap in East Nashville. |
| Davidson | Edgehill Neighborhood Partnership | To meet immediate needs and provide a meal for those who aren't able to access goods through government assistance programs. |
| Davidson | Empower Tennessee | To provide life skills training to at least 100 youth with disabilities in preparation for life after high school |
| Davidson | End Slavery Tennessee | To provide intensive and full spectrum aftercare services for 96 human trafficking survivors who live in our safe house. |
| Davidson | EPIC Girl Inc. | To use screening and case management to recruit, retain and link 200 girls in detention to EPIC Girl's programs. |
| Davidson | F.I.N.D. Design | To provide services for 75 at-risk girls that use participatory theater to reduce violence and risky behaviors while building resilience. |
| Davidson | Faith Family Medical Center | To provide 80 comprehensive, quality, primary health care visits to women in Davidson County who are uninsured or underinsured |
| Davidson | Family and Children's Service | The Relative Caregiver Program provides support to relatives caring for children of parents unable or unwilling to care for them. |
| Davidson | Family Foundation Fund | To support the long-term success of underserved youth through educational opportunities, mentorship, agricultural training, health/nutrition, volunteerism and meaningful internships |
| Davidson | First Steps, Inc. | To provide nursing expertise to support services to children with special health needs in our child development center. |
| Davidson | Free for Life International | To equip community members in Middle Tennessee with knowledge about how to identify potential human trafficking situations and respond appropriately. |
| Davidson | Friends Life | Advocacy Through the Arts: an arts education program for adults with special needs. |
| Davidson | Friendship House | To provide support, counsel, and recovery for alcoholic and drug addicted women, to help them and their children. |
| Davidson | Frist Art Museum | To provide opportunities for Middle Tennessee youth to engage in community, learn leadership skills, and develop creativity through teen programs. |
| Davidson | Galaxy Star Drug Awareness/Nashville Peacemakers | Certified swim instructor will provide 12 weeks of intermediate-level lessons to 10 girls, ages 11-15, who have completed a beginner |
| Davidson | Gilda's Club Middle Tennessee | To provide health support and build community amongst those impacted by cancer in Middle Tennessee, ensuring we face cancer together. |
| Davidson | Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee, Inc. | To provide an authentic and comprehensive Girl Scout experience for homeless girls and girs in unstable housingl in Davidson County. |
| Davidson | Girls on the Run of Middle Tennessee | To provide 113 girls from low income families the opportunity to participate in a life changing research-based character development program. |
| Davidson | Global Education Center | To provide family arts experiences for families of youth involved in the juvenile court system to keep them connected |
| Davidson | Goodwill Industries of Middle TN, Inc. | To provide tools and boots for 50 construction graduates who have completed construction training and certification and are entering employment. |
| Davidson | Harvest Hands CDC | To expand STEM education in after school programming to bridge the STEM gap among minority students and increase employment skills. |
| Davidson | Homework Hotline | Provide 2,500 free, one-on-one tutoring sessions to 925 students or parents/guardians from the 40 counties that Community Foundation supports. |
| Davidson | Hope Clinic for Women | Provide 100 homeless women with health education, pregnancy testing, medical exams, STD screening, free medications. |
| Davidson | Humanities Tennessee | To provide Middle Tennessee public school students with a program that encourages and supports reading and literacy. |
| Davidson | Interfaith Dental Clinic | Delivering Healthy Smiles provides oral healthcare treatment for low income pregnant mothers and their babies through year one. |
| Davidson | Intersection | A project featuring works by Florence Price and Nkeiru Okoye to promote diversity and engagement through contemporary classical music. |
| Davidson | 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 GLBTQ community |
| Davidson | Junior Achievement of Middle Tennessee | To prepare and inspire Metro Schools elementary students with skills to lead healthy financial lives. |
| Davidson | Justice Industries | To promote and train quality staff to higher management and customer service roles within our Just.Glass initiative. |
| Davidson | King's Daughters Day Home | To cultivate developmentally appropriate skills within 85 children (age 2 months to 5 years) of diverse socio-economic backgrounds. |
| Davidson | Legacy MissionVillage | To provide partial funding for our Journey After School Program for newly arrived refugee high school students. |
| Davidson | Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands | To provide educational information to organizations on free legal services for older adults. |
| Davidson | LETS Play | Language Education Through Sports Play builds language skills and confidence for students through sports while establishing lasting partnerships with schools. |
| Davidson | Lutheran Services in Tennessee, Inc./Inspiritus | To provide community art-based workshops for 150 youth living in at-risk communities during school breaks and after school. |
| Davidson | Matthew Walker Health Center, Inc | MWCHC provides medical, dental, behavioral health and other clinical services to the uninsured of Davidson, Montgomery and Rutherford counties. |
| Davidson | McNeilly Center for Children | To provide enrichment activities and in-house field trips for the 250 low-income children served at McNeilly Centers. |
| Davidson | MDHA Housing Trust Corporation | To train 20 low-level maintenance workers through a customized six-month program to empower them with new skills for advancement. |
| Davidson | Meharry Medical College | To provide free, high quality healthcare to the underserved of Nashville and train the next generation of healthcare providers. |
| Davidson | Mending Hearts, Inc. | Provide individual/group therapy and skill building for 96 indigent women in recovery in the Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) |
| Davidson | Mental Health Association of Middle Tennessee | To provide Emotional Backpacks containing ESL books and basic school supplies for Spanish-speaking unaccompanied refugee minors resettled in Middle Tennessee. |
| Davidson | Metro Nashville Chorus / Sweet Adelines International | Share the joy of 4-part a cappella harmony in the barbershop style with young women in Middle Tennessee. |
| Davidson | Mid-Cumberland Human Resource Agency | Provide 2,578 meals to senior citizens who have suffered neglect or self-neglect in Dickson and Cheatham Counties. |
| Davidson | Monroe Harding Inc. | Providing evidence-based workforce development programming for 50 "Opportunity Youth", ages 16-26, to gain employment that pays a living wage. |
| Davidson | Mother to Mother, Inc. | To provide essential health and safety items for low-income children and infants living in rural areas of Middle Tennessee. |
| Davidson | Music for Seniors | To facilitate 250 live music Outreach programs with under-resourced seniors, including enhanced “Music Making Outreach Sessions” to increase/deepen participant engagement. |
| Davidson | Musicians On Call | To deliver live bedside music performances to 1,700 Veterans receiving treatment at two VA hospitals in Nashville and Murfreesboro. |
| Davidson | My Father's War | Through performances/workshops: help veterans heal from PTSD and moral injuries and inspire others' understanding of war's individual and cultural consequences. |
| Davidson | NAMI Tennessee | Provide 50 Ending the Silence Peer taught mental health /suicide prevention presentations to 1000 students |
| Davidson | Nashville Adult Literacy Council, Inc. | To teach reading, writing, and English-speaking skills to adults in Nashville. |
| Davidson | Nashville Ballet | To provide arts education and learning experiences for 20,000 children and adults in diverse communities across Middle Tennessee |
| Davidson | Nashville CARES | This proposal requests $4,750 to purchase 500 kits to provide HIV testing to 500 non-gay women, men and youth |
| Davidson | Nashville Cat Rescue | To spay or nueter 900 cats so that they may be put up for adoption and placed in permanent homes. |
| Davidson | Nashville Children's Alliance | For training, client assistance, and program supplies for our services to reduce the trauma of child abuse victims and families. |
| Davidson | Nashville Children's Theatre | To produce educational programming and financial aide to students and educators in our community. |
| Davidson | Nashville Civic Design Center | NCDC's Reclaiming Public Space initiative works to enhance public spaces, and facilitate public participation towards creating a vibrant, livable Nashville. |
| Davidson | Nashville Coaching Coalition | The Coaches' Leadership Academy prepares coaches to be purposeful mentors/leaders; request is to provide licensed therapists as faculty within program. |
| Davidson | Nashville Conflict Resolution Center | To prevent eviction and homelessness for public housing residents of Metro Nashville by providing free mediation services onsite. |
| Davidson | Nashville Diaper Connection | The "No Child Wet Behind" program provides baby diapers to moms that otherwise might not have them. |
| Davidson | Nashville Dolphins (Dolphin Aquatics) | To provide FREE learn to swim classes and water safety to children and adults with special needs. |
| Davidson | Nashville Education Community and Arts Television Corporation | To continue training and mentoring teenagers in camps and programs during/after school hours, instilling confidence and teamwork through TV production. |
| Davidson | Nashville Film Festival | To engage 15 at-risk teens from Youth Villages in professional-level song-writing, recording, music video production, and festival showcase. |
| Davidson | Nashville in Harmony | To provide LGBTQ+ youth from across Middle Tennessee opportunities to discover their voice, build community, and self-advocate through musical performance |
| Davidson | Nashville Jazz Workshop | Support for expansion of the acclaimed Jazz on the Move performance/education series to seven performances in three new venues. |
| Davidson | Nashville Launch Pad, Inc. | We provide street-free sleep in the winter months for young adults, 18-24 in an LGBTQ-affirming atmosphere. |
| Davidson | Nashville Opera Association | To improve access for differentiated learners, expand toolkit use, and identify new partners for All-Access Opera Education. |
| Davidson | Nashville Public Radio | Support local musicians and arts organizations through 91Classical's broadcasts of 'Live in Studio C', Nashville Symphony, and Nashville Opera. |
| Davidson | Nashville Public Television Council Inc. | To fund production expenses related to "NPT Reports: Aging Matters," focusing on issues affecting seniors and our community. |
| Davidson | Nashville Repertory Theatre | To offer professional theatre arts education and mentorship for area youth ages 7-23 via the NEW Nashville Rep Youth Conservatory. |
| Davidson | Nashville Shakespeare Festival | Provide affordable or free public and school performances of MACBETH, with preparatory in-school student workshops, and free on-line guidebook. |
| Davidson | Nashville Steam Preservation Society | Create education materials and schedule educational programs and events with a specific focus on at-risk and inner city youth. |
| Davidson | Nashville Symphony Association | To provide free, high-quality instrument instruction and music education experiences to 9,265 students in Nashville. |
| Davidson | Nashville Tree Foundation | To execute a comprehensive education/replanting response to Emerald Ash Borer (EAB), predicted to kill 10% of Nashville's trees by 2026. |
| Davidson | National Museum of African American Music | To connect up to 1,000 Nashville youth and ~350 seniors with professional musician teaching artists to learn, perform, and engage. |
| Davidson | Nations Ministry Center | To provide citizenship support services to 150 immigrants and refugees who are on the road to becoming US citizens. |
| Davidson | NeedLink Nashville | To help 60 low-income women who are pregnant or have newborn babies under 6-months avoid homelessness and/or utility disconnection. |
| Davidson | Neighborhood Health | To increase access to retinal eye screening for 200 patients with diabetes. |
| Davidson | New Horizons Corporation | Enabling technology for 14 persons with disabilities in residential homes (8) and day programs (6) for living and employment solutions. |
| Davidson | New Level Community Development Corporation | To provide housing counseling to more than 200 families seeking to own a home in Nashville. |
| Davidson | 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 | Nurses for Newborns of Tennessee | To prevent infant mortality, child abuse and neglect through home visitation by registered nurses. |
| Davidson | Open Table of Nashville, Inc. | Housing some of our most vulnerable neighbors who are unhoused and generally do not reach out for services. |
| Davidson | Operation Stand Down Tennessee | To provide career services and transition assistance to Veterans, empowering and equipping them to gain and sustain purposeful employment. |
| Davidson | OZ Arts Nashville | To provide artistic community engagement programming for diverse underserved participants to explore individual and collective burdens and to foster empathy. |
| Davidson | Park Center | To provide art therapy for 30 adults with chronic mental illness, homelessness and addiction on a weekly basis. |
| Davidson | Parks at Kimbro Station, Inc. | To provide access to green space with outdoor recreation, education, and cultural enrichment to the community in Southeast Davidson County. |
| Davidson | Pastoral Counseling Centers of Tennessee, Inc. | To meet the growing need of Tusculum Elementary, providing support/healing for up to 60 refugee children through therapeutic groups. |
| Davidson | Pathway Lending (Southeast Community Capital Corporation) | Provide small business skills through classes, counseling and mentorships that builds financial empowerment for 250+ disadvantaged women and their families. |
| Davidson | Pet Community Center | To trap-neuter-return (TNR) 208, unowned, free-roaming, and feral cats (community cats) through the Community Cat Program (CCP). |
| Davidson | Play Like a Girl! | To provide access to STEM education in a sports context for 150 middle school girls from disadvantaged backgrounds. |
| Davidson | Poverty and the Arts | Provide creative resources, training, and a marketplace so individuals impacted by homelessness can overcome barriers to employment with creative talent |
| Davidson | Preserve Lindsley Avenue Now Inc | Continue the church building's interior renovation begun with last year's grant. Install new high-quality laminate flooring and cabinets near auditorium. |
| Davidson | Prevent Child Abuse Tennessee | To provide voluntary, evidence-based, home visiting for 250 vulnerable families in Davidson County as a way of preventing childhood adversity.. |
| Davidson | Progress, Inc. | To provide training to 31 people who support people with intellectual disabilities and seniors |
| Davidson | Project for Neighborhood Aftercare | Provide equitable access to technology to 50 Kindergarten-4th low-income children at high risk for academic deficiencies in an afterschool program. |
| Davidson | Project Return, Inc. | To provide reentry services and wraparound support to people returning to the community after incarceration through the Job Readiness program. |
| Davidson | Proverbs 12:10 Animal Rescue | To provide medication and vaccines for rescued dogs and cats in preparation for adoption. |
| Davidson | Rebuilding Together Nashville | To preserve affordable housing for 34 low-income homeowners in the Northwest Nashville communities through repairing and renovating their homes. |
| Davidson | Rejoice Ministries | Rejoice Ballet mentors dancers from all socioeconomic and racial backgrounds through classical ballet instruction and positive youth development programs. |
| Davidson | Renewal House, Inc. | To provide trauma-informed, gender-specific intensive outpatient addiction treatment for 75 low-income women, including specialized programming for pregnant and postpartum mothers. |
| Davidson | Rescue 1 Global | To counter human trafficking by providing basic necessities, academics, life-skills and therapeutic environments to survivors for healthy and sustainable healing. |
| Davidson | Rooftop Foundation | To provide rent or mortgage assistance for those facing a short term medical crisis. |
| Davidson | Safe Haven Family Shelter | To provide academic, social-emotional, and behavioral supports to children experiencing homelessness to lessen the negative impact of housing instability. |
| Davidson | Saint Thomas Health Foundation | To bring life-saving screening mammography to 90 uninsured/underserved women in Bedford, Coffee, and Warren counties through a mobile mammography outreach. |
| Davidson | Senior Ride Nashville | To provide 2,211 back-up driver trips, ensuring seniors have transportation to connect and access essential services regardless of volunteer availability. |
| Davidson | Sexual Assault Center | To provide specialized therapy, advocacy, and support to 30 low-income girls and women who have been sexually assaulted. |
| Davidson | Shower The People | To provide 500 mobile showers and hygiene supplies to individuals experiencing homelessness in Nashville. |
| Davidson | Siloam Health | To provide 750 high-quality, affordable, culturally sensitive medical visits to uninsured, low-income refugees in Middle Tennessee |
| Davidson | Small World Yoga | Small World Yoga will provide weekly yoga and meditation services for 125 clients, men and women, who are incarcerated. |
| Davidson | Southern Alliance for People and Animal Welfare | To continue our weekly spay/neuter transport for pet owners who are homeless or who live below the poverty level. |
| Davidson | Southern Word | Southern Word (SW) develops powerful communicators, thinkers, and leaders through the vehicles of spoken word, creative writing, and music production. |
| Davidson | Special Olympics Tennessee | To create 10 Unified Champion Schools in Middle TN by creating inclusive sports and leadership opportunities for youth. |
| Davidson | St. Luke's Community House | To provide emotional, social, and nutritional support to 120 aging adults in Nashville. |
| Davidson | Starlings Nashville | To fund a volleyball program that will encourage leadership skills for underserved girls, ages five to eighteen. |
| Davidson | STARS Nashville | To provide 2,400 middle and high school students struggling to overcome social and emotional barriers individual and group counseling sessions. |
| Davidson | Stronger Than My Father, Inc | To positively change the cycle of poverty through educational achievement and self-esteem in the lives of young urban children. |
| Davidson | Survivor Fitness Foundation | Provide rehabilitation services for cancer survivors through one-on-one training with an exercise specialist, addressing side effects of diagnosis and treatments. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Association for Children's Early Education | To offer 8 "Pop Up" training events for child care providers in rural or under-served regions/areas of the state. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Breast Cancer Coalition | To provide financial assistance to breast cancer patients in the state of Tennessee. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Craft | To provide arts & crafts activities for Tennessee Craft's Kids Tent at our Spring and Fall Fair, serving 4,590 children. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Environmental Council | To engage over 20,000 volunteers in planting 100,000 native tree seedlings across Tennessee, half of these in Middle Tennessee. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Higher Education Initiative, Inc. | To fund tuition and supplies for the inaugural cohort of the first Bachelor's program in a men's prison in Tennessee. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition | To ensure that Middle Tennessee's immigrant and refugee residents are accurately counted in the 2020 Census |
| Davidson | Tennessee Justice Center | Create resources and work with partners to help thousands of pregnant women and children connect with health and food benefits. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Justice for Our Neighbors | To provide humanitarian immigration legal services to low-income immigrants and refugees affected by violence and terror. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Lions Charities Inc | Our goal is to provide free vision screenings and follow-up to children (12-72 months) in the middle Tennessee area. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Performing Arts Center | To bring professional artist residencies to Pre-K classrooms: 30-minute sessions offered 2x/week for 6-7 weeks, in the spring semester. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Poison Center | Educate residents on the toxic effects of electronic cigarettes and liquid nicotine, and how to respond in a poison emergency. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Respite Coalition | To give 10 family caregivers in Dickson County respite time and educate 20 caregivers and community members about respite. |
| Davidson | Tennessee State University Research, Economic and Community Development Foundation | To provide technology training for 90 seniors in order that they might access/utilize online information and services and connect socially. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Voices for Victims | To distribute 100 DVD documentaries to public and private Middle Tennessee middle and high schools |
| Davidson | Tennessee Women's Theater Project | Support for free after-school classes in storycraft and theatre, for children in grades 3 - 5 at Looby Community Center. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Youth Symphony | To provide sectional musical training to our approximately 135 students based on their specific instruments and/or part in musical selection. |
| Davidson | The Bridge Ministry, Inc. | The Bridge to Kids program will provide weekend meals for appoximately 3300 food insecure children this 2019/20 school year. |
| Davidson | The Contributor Inc. | To hire a full-time Outreach Worker through ARCH/Americorps to support Contributor vendors in their transition from homelessness into housing. |
| Davidson | The Healing Arts Project Inc | Healing Arts Project, Inc. (HAPI) will provide artist opportunities to person diagnosed with a mental health and/ or addiction disorders. |
| Davidson | The Heimerdinger Foundation | To provide a first-time quarterly series of seminars for cancer patients/other stakeholders to learn about whole foods nutrition, meal preparation. |
| Davidson | The Hope Station, Inc. | To provide rental and utility assistance to single working mothers with minor children in Davidson and Rutherford Counties. |
| Davidson | The IBMA Foundation, Inc. | To host a Utilizing American Roots Music/ Bluegrass in the Classroom workshop for teachers in Davidson, Bedford and Coffee counties |
| Davidson | The Little Pantry That Could | To provide fresh produce, meat, shelf-stable food items, and basic toiletries to around 200 families on a weekly basis. |
| Davidson | The Mary Parrish Center | To provide emergency financial assistance to survivors of interpersonal violence and their children. |
| Davidson | The Nashville Food Project, Inc. | To cook and share 325,000+ nutritious meals with people facing barriers to food access through partnerships with local nonprofits. |
| Davidson | The New Beginnings Center | To provide 162 low-income women with 11,700 hours of wellness coaching that improves physical fitness, health and quality of life. |
| Davidson | The New Life Center | Training Camp for Dads is a child birth education workshop where new and expecting fathers can learn more about fatherhood. |
| Davidson | The Next Door | The Recovery Care Clinic provides medically-assisted treatment (MAT) as an outpatient treatment option for women suffering from opioid abuse disorder. |
| Davidson | The Society of St. Andrew | To expand the collection and donation of excess food in Middle Tennessee farmers' markets. |
| Davidson | Thistle Farms, Inc. | To provide housing, healthcare, and job training to women survivors of trafficking, prostitution, and addiction. |
| Davidson | Time to Rise Inc. | To provide at risk youth grades 4-6 with academic instruction and cultural enrichment during summer program. |
| Davidson | Turnip Green Creative Reuse | To divert materials from the landfill through art-based reduce, reuse, recycle education programs to under-invested communities. |
| Davidson | Vox Grata, Inc | To perform two newly composed choral works commissioned for the centennial of women's suffrage, thereby facilitating public dialogue. |
| Davidson | W.O. Smith Community Music School | To provide an affordable, high quality summer camp program for low-income youth. |
| Davidson | Walden's Puddle | To provide care/treatment to wildlife in need, with the goal of returning the rehabilitated animals to the wild. |
| Davidson | Walk/Bike Nashville | Safe Routes to Schools provides road safety education and encouragement to increase the number of students walking/biking to school |
| Davidson | Water Walkers | To provide employment for 6 at risk youth, ages fifteen to eighteen, who live in the Edgehill Homes. |
| Davidson | Wayne Reed Christian Childcare Center | To install a new rubberized playground surface to provide a safe play area for the children we serve |
| Davidson | Welcome Home Ministries | |
| Davidson | Westminster Home Connection | To build volunteer support for aging-in-place in Davidson and Cheatham counties. |
| Davidson | Wings of Courage | To provide emergency financial assistance and items for escape for all victims of Domestic Violence through our Flightbag Program. |
| Davidson | You Have the Power...Know How to Use It, Inc. | To support existing prevention programs by translating and printing our Crime Survivor's Guide (Spanish) and Our Children (Arabic) resource guides |
| Davidson | Youth Empowerment through Arts and Humanities | To provide music education and community-building programs for diverse groups of participants, primarily young women, in Middle Tennessee. |
| Davidson | Youth Villages | To provide critical needs and services for 20-25 youth aging out of foster care participating in Youth Villages' YVLifeSet program. |
| Davidson | YWCA Nashville & Middle Tennessee | Provide safe shelter and comprehensive support to over 500 victims of domestic violence at the Weaver Domestic Violence Center. |
| DeKalb | Cannon Co Community for Animals | To provide spay and neuter services for animals that are in low income or homeless situations. |
| DeKalb | DeKalb County Board of Education-Coordinated School Health | To provide food to approximately 200 students in need on the weekends and holiday breaks. |
| DeKalb | Tennessee Tech Craft Center | To empower 5th-12th grade art educators to design and implement hands-on craft activities in their classrooms. |
| Dickson | 23rd District Judicial Advocates, Inc. | Purchase mattresses for 50 Drug Court participants living in the court-operated Sober Living Residences. |
| Dickson | CareNet Pregnancy Medical Center | To educate 25 families and 60 men with parenting information on how to safely raise their child. |
| Dickson | CASA of Dickson County | To provide quality training for our Advocate Supervisor whom supervises volunteers that advocate on behalf of children in foster care. |
| Dickson | Charlotte Fagan United Methodist Church | To provide affordable, choral music education and enrichment for children and adults of all ages in Dickson and surrounding counties. |
| Dickson | Dickson Co High School | To expose students to the business aspect of architectural design through the use of our new laser engraver. |
| Dickson | Dickson Community Clinic | The Dickson Community Clinic provides primary care, laboratory and imaging studies as well as referral services for the uninsured individuals. |
| Dickson | Dickson County Family YMCA | To provide certification in multiple levels CPR(Pro), first aid, oxygen, AED, babysitting, wilderness first aid every month. |
| Dickson | Dickson County Help Center | To provide nutritional food to families in need. |
| Dickson | Dickson County Public Library | To provide furniture and technology for the new Dickson County Public Library and Life Long Learning Center. |
| Dickson | Dickson County Sheriff's Office | Host Junior Sheriff's Academy for 40 middle-school students focusing on educating and encouraging strong relationships between youth and law enforcement. |
| Dickson | Friends of Lonesome Historic Site, Inc. | Develop a celphone-based curriculum guide for use on field trips to Lonesome HIstoric Site cemetery. Complements previous social studies curricula. |
| Dickson | Governor Frank G. Clement Railroad Hotel and Historical Museum | To video historical accounts commemorating Dickson-born Governor Frank Clement's centennial, and the progress he made within Tennessee, educating future generations. |
| Dickson | Humane Society of Dickson County | To provide spay/neuter assistance to citizens of Dickson County |
| Dickson | Last Chance Pet Rescue, Inc. | To provide affordable spay/neuter options for the pets owned by residents of Dickson County |
| Dickson | The Quest Center for Art & Community Development, Inc. | Year-round, accessible after-school & out-of-school music instruction and extended education activities serving children ages 10-18 living in rural, lower-income communities |
| Dickson | William James Middle School | Our proposed program is to focus on the positive behavior and attendance of students and build teacher morale. |
| Franklin | Franklin County Humane Society (Animal Harbor) | To provide complete veterinary care for rescued pets while they're in Animal Harbor until we find new homes for them. |
| Franklin | Good Samaritan Ministries of Franklin County | Our primary mission is to provide food boxes for disadvantaged families in Franklin County average ~350 per month. |
| Franklin | West Middle School | West MS uses the CFG for the purpose of supplying and helping with basic student needs. |
| Franklin | Ziggy's Tree Wildlife Rehabilitation Center | To provide care for Tennessee's orphaned and injured native wildlife with the goal of returning them to their natural habitats. |
| Hickman | Hickman County Economic & Community Development Assn | Hickman County Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth to age five. |
| Hickman | Hickman Humane Society Inc | To provide spay/neuter services for 100 dogs and 100 cats owned by citizens in Hickman County with limited financial means. |
| Hickman | Women Are Safe | To provide child-focused case management, activities and supplies to children exposed to domestic violence. |
| Houston | Bethesda Community Mission, Inc. | Emergency relief for families facing disparaging situations trying to find work to keep their families fed and their utilities on. |
| Humphreys | Humphreys County Humane Society | To provide pets of Senior Citizens with medical treatment and owners with financial support for the wellness of their pets. |
| Jackson | Friends of Animals of Jackson County | Provide financial assistance to Jackson County residents to spay/neuter their pets. |
| Jackson | Granville Museum, Inc. | To tell the story of a small rural town and allow visitors to step back in time. |
| Lincoln | Humane Society of Lincoln County | To increase the number of unwanted/abandoned pets lives saved through proper care and in partnership with businesses and rescue groups. |
| Lincoln | Southern Alliance for Animal Welfare/Lincoln County | To provide low cost or free spay/neuter surgery and vaccines for dogs and cats belonging to low income families. |
| Macon | Macon Spay Neuter Assistance | Provide low cost spay/neuter services & vaccines to 180 animals, enhancing lives & preventing overpopulation. Establish Senior Citizens Pet/Food Bank. |
| Maury | Boys & Girls Clubs of Maury County | Provide tutoring by certified teachers and intensive academic mentoring to 150 high drop-out risk youth to ensure high school graduation. |
| Maury | Center of Hope | To provide therapeutic counseling to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and human trafficking to heal from trauma. |
| Maury | James K. Polk Memorial Association | To plan and plant a historical kitchen garden that will provide new opportunities for participatory educational programming and community engagement. |
| Maury | Maury County Senior Citizens, Inc. | To address food insecurity for low-income older adults at the Maury County Senior Centers in Columbia and Mt Pleasant |
| Maury | Maury Regional Healthcare Foundation | To bridge the gap for at-risk women battling breast cancer by providing the support and resources needed during treatment. |
| Maury | Rippavilla Plantation | To educate and promote the significance of the agricultural & historical roots of Maury County to children. |
| Maury | Rural Animal Rescue Effort (RARE) | Transport preparation costs for animals from kill shelters in TN to go on life saving transports to Northern no-kill organizations. |
| Maury | Watershed Public Theatre | To provide theatre training and increased employment opportunities for local artists during the summer 2020 production of Romeo & Juliet. |
| Montgomery | Big Brothers Big Sisters of Clarksville | To improve classroom behavior and defend children's potential by pairing them with adult mentors to meet consistently and provide guidance. |
| Montgomery | Loaves and Fishes | Provide a consistent supply of fresh fruits, vegetables and dairy for daily meal program. Work with nutritionist to improve meals. |
| Montgomery | Montgomery County Imagination Library / The Friends of the Clarksville Montgomery County Public Libr | To mail one high-quality, age-appropriate book to the homes of children enrolled one a month from birth to age five. |
| Montgomery | Roxy Productions, Inc. | To support artistic salaries for JUNIE B. JONES: The Musical at the Roxy Regional Theatre in January/February 2020. |
| Overton | Council of Americana Roots Music | To promote, present, and preserve Americana music; as well as, to provide care to underserved populations in Appalachia. |
| Overton | Spay/Neuter Incentive Program - Overton Co. (SNIP-OC) | SNIP-OC's activities are limited to spay/neuter of pets of senior citizens, unemployed and low income residents of Overton County. |
| Pickett | Good Neighbors Theatre, Inc. | Provide theatrical and musical productions, workshops, and exhibits that involve, and educate residents from this and surrounding rural areas. |
| Pickett | Paws of Dale Hollow | To control the feral cat population of Pickett County through a program of trap, neuter, and release. |
| Putnam | All About Rescue and Fixin Inc | Helping Hands,a program that will help low income residents of the 14 Upper Cumberland counties afford access to veterinary |
| Putnam | Bryan Symphony Orchestra | The Bryan Symphony Orchestra Association provides an educational concert series for fourth graders of Putnam, Cumberland, Warren, White and Jackson. |
| Putnam | Cookeville Regional Medical Center Foundation | To provide Lung Cancer Screenings to low-income/under-insured Upper Cumberland residents at risk of developing lung cancer. |
| Putnam | Humane Society of Putnam County | Spay or neuter 1800 pets belonging to low income families in the targeted four counties of the Upper Cumberland. |
| Putnam | Putnam County Senior Citizens | Enhance current exercise offerings and respond to critical unmet needs which improve health/wellness and quality of life. |
| Rutherford | Boys & Girls Clubs of Rutherford County | Ultimate Journey is designed to cultivate environmental stewardship to help Club members appreciate and care for the place they live. |
| Rutherford | Center for the Arts Inc | The Center for the Arts (CFTA) provides year-round performing arts programs and performance opportunities to youth in Rutherford County. |
| Rutherford | Community Helpers of Rutherford County | Community Helpers of Rutherford County provides emergency financial assistance for Shelter, Warmth, & Health to low income Rutherford County residents. |
| Rutherford | Discovery Center at Murfree Spring/Children's Museum Corp of Rutherford Co | To provide a two 4-month-long Artist-in-Residence program for Tennesse artists and corresponding public programming for Discovery Center visitors |
| Rutherford | Domestic Violence Program, Inc. | Provide Sexual Assault Forensic Exams and free supportive services to assist adult victims of sexual assault find hope, healing, recovery. |
| Rutherford | Dominion Financial Management Inc. | To expand our RealHelp-Financial program by including financial education for all members of the family: adults, teens and children. |
| Rutherford | Doors of Hope | The addition of mental health service, including education, assessment and group therapy to the Rutherford County Community Re-Entry Program |
| Rutherford | Elders First Adult Day Services dba Mindful Care Adult Day Services | To promote mental and physical capabilities of 20 cognitively impaired older adults and prevent institutionalization; providing respite for caregivers. |
| Rutherford | Endure Athletics Foundation | To provided 30 homeless children and youth a fee-free after school program. |
| Rutherford | 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 | Greenhouse Ministries | To provide mobile food pantry events in Murfreesboro that deliver boxes of nutritious food to 250 families in need. |
| Rutherford | Habitat for Humanity of Rutherford County | To provide exterior insulation for the construction of Habitat houses and reduce utility costs for low income families. |
| Rutherford | Jesse C Beesley Animal Humane Foundation | To promote care and kindness to animals through affordable spay/neuter services, preventative care, and education about responsible pet ownership. |
| Rutherford | Murfreesboro Muslim Youth Inc. | To engage youth in meeting the critical needs of approximately 1,150 homeless individuals and providing school supplies to disadvantaged students. |
| Rutherford | Murfreesboro Symphony Orchestra | To educate students in the art of symphonic music through school visits and free concerts with professional musicians. |
| Rutherford | Possibility Place | Intensive job training program and Intensive reading program for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. |
| Rutherford | Read To Succeed | To place books in the hands, hearts and minds of the youth of our community so they become good citizens. |
| Rutherford | Smyrna LaVergne Food Bank (Nourish) | To provide a free food storage and distribution center supporting multiple feeding programs and a co-located hub of community services. |
| Rutherford | Special Kids | To provide life skills training for children ages 6-25 three times per week at Camp Ability 2020. |
| Rutherford | Stepping Stones Safe Haven Inc. | To provide a welcoming shelter for homeless women and children while walking our clients to the best next step. |
| Rutherford | The Journey Home | Providing meals, clothing, and support to the homeless; meeting basic needs to help families achieve stability and community integration. |
| Rutherford | You Can Make It Home Ownership Center Inc | To provide homebuyer education and counseling for 200 low- and moderate-income families seeking to buy their first home. |
| Smith | Smith County Imagination Library | To foster a love of reading among the county's preschool children and their families. |
| Stewart | Humane Society of Dover-Stewart County | To reduce the uncontrolled breeding and disease of stray/abandoned cats/kittens by providing sterilization and rabies vaccines to this neglected population. |
| Stewart | Stewart County Friends of the Public Library | To provide free books to all registered children in the Imagination Library database in Stewart County to age 5 |
| Sumner | Borderless Arts Tennessee | Participants will create wearable portraits of famous historic Tennesseans which will be performed in and displayed at historic sites. |
| Sumner | Gallatin CARES | We are providing short term support services for families that are enduring dramatic or traumatic events in their lives. |
| Sumner | Homebound Meals Hendersonville | Provides meals for the elderly and disabled population who are unable to provide meals for themselves. |
| Sumner | Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center | EC:CO (Exhibition Connect: Community Outreach) Program support, offering FREE year-round art-making activities benefiting 2000+ underserved Middle TN youth and families. |
| Sumner | Sumner County CASA | To provide training and support for 30 community volunteers that have been trained to advocate for abused and neglected children. |
| Sumner | Sumner Spay Neuter Alliance | To provide spay/neuter and veterinary care to 400 impoverished families with a goal of keeping pets healthy and vaccinations updated. |
| Sumner | Sumner Teen Center, Inc. | To provide a youth employment training program called "Adulting 101" for approximately 100 teens in 7th through 12th grade. |
| Warren | Families in Crisis, Inc. | To provide services to survivors of domestic/sexual violence by providing them with resources to become safe, independent, healthy and self-sufficient. |
| Warren | Paul's Clinic | To spay/neuter 250 pets for low-income individuals that reside in the 6 counties we serve. |
| Warren | Warren Arts Foundation, Inc. | To present a storytelling event that includes both performance and educational components. |
| White | White County Humane Society | To provide financial assistance to 235 pet owners who could not otherwise afford to have their pets spayed or neutered. |
| White | White County Library Foundation | To encourage reading and provide educational opportunities for children, teens, and adults to prevent "Summer Slide" during the Summer months. |
| Williamson | Backlight Productions | To use theater and performance arts to benefit and enrich the lives of 76 people having developmental or physical disabilities. |
| Williamson | Bridges of Williamson County dba Bridges Domestic Violence Center | Victim Specific Needs Assistance Program includes medications, prescriptions, physical & mental health provider needs, minor car repair, and childcare assistance. |
| Williamson | BrightStone, Inc. | To provide the best healthcare possible for adults with special needs through educational programs and comprehensive wellness and fitness activities. |
| Williamson | Graceworks Ministries, Inc. | To provide rent or utility emergency assistance to help families avoid eviction or utility disconnection. |
| Williamson | Habitat for Humanity Williamson-Maury | To provide critical home repairs to the vulnerable in our community, with an emphasis on serving the elderly and disabled. |
| Williamson | Hard Bargain Mt. Hope Redevelopment Inc. | To provide repairs on the homes of 20 low-income and elderly residents in the Hard Bargain neighborhood. |
| Williamson | Harpeth Conservancy | Citizen science program that monitors waterways and informs responsible environment and water management in the greater Nashville area. |
| Williamson | Healing Housing, Inc. | To provide a safe home and supportive services for 14 underprivileged women in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction. |
| Williamson | Heaven Can Wait Animal Rescue and Sanctuary | Provide 1/2 of the vet and medications for an average of 13 sanctuary dogs |
| Williamson | Heritage Foundation of Franklin & Williamson County | To provide locally focused historical educational materials for classroom use in the fourth and fifth grades in Williamson County |
| Williamson | High Hopes, Inc. | To equip 850+ children in our pediatric therapy clinic and inclusive preschool/kindergarten with the skills necessary to succeed. |
| Williamson | Mercy Health Services | To provide access to social-emotional learning groups to students Williamson and Marshall counties each summer. |
| Williamson | Middle Tennessee Guitar Alliance, Inc. | To provide four free concerts presented by world renowned classical guitarists at Vanderbilt's Blair School in 2020. |
| Williamson | Owl's Hill Nature Sanctuary | To reclaim two pollinator meadows boosting healthy populations of pollinators and expanding Citizen Science research area. |
| Williamson | People For Animals | We offer financial assistance for spay/neuter to pet owners in financial need in Middle TN. |
| Williamson | Retrieving Independence, Inc. | Enabling and supporting the training and placement of life changing animals through the Service Dog Success Training Program in 2020. |
| Williamson | Snooty Giggles Dog Rescue | Funding request is to pull dogs from local shelters who require medical intervention to be adoptable. |
| Williamson | Studio Tenn Theatre Company | To produce a professional production of Little Women for middle and high school students at no cost to the attendees. |
| Williamson | The Refuge Center for Counseling | To provide affordable counseling services and care to women domestic violence victims in dire financial circumstances. |
| Williamson | The Shower Truck/Shower Up | If selected, we would use the grant to serve Nashville's homeless community with mobile showers, hygiene services, and personal care. |
| Williamson | Tucker's House | To assess and retrofit Middle Tennessee homes of children with disabilities making them accessible, inclusive, and safe. |
| Wilson | Cedar Seniors, Inc. | Provide nutritional lunches Monday-Friday for Lebanon and surrounding area seniors |
| Wilson | Charis Health Center | To provide medical treatment for the medically vulnerable and uninsured. |
| Wilson | Community Homeless Outreach & Support/The Brooks House | BH provides preventive and corrective physical/dental/vision exams/medications and counseling to prepare residents for independent living. |
| Wilson | Mt. Juliet West Wilson County Senior Citizens Service Center | Funds to ensure continuation of the Ballroom Dance Therapy Program. |
| Wilson | New Leash on Life | Provide spay/neuter services for owned dogs & cats and feral cats in counties with limited animal welfare resources. |
| Wilson | Prospect | To provide partial funding for a pilot nutrition program to be implemented in five of our residential homes. |
| Wilson | Rest Stop Ministries, Inc. | To provide long-term, trauma-informed, survivor-centered residential restoration care to adult female survivors of sex trafficking. |
| Wilson | Tennessee Artist's Guild Inc. | To provide training and showing opportunities for up to 60 adults and seniors in the fine art of clay works. |
| Wilson | Wilson Books from Birth | To provide free Imagination Library books to Wilson County's pre-school children to foster a love of learning and reading. |
| Wilson | Wilson County Emergency Services Rehab Association Inc./Rehab 23 | To provide support services on a 24/7/365 basis irrespective of weather conditions to over 800+ first responders in Wilson County. |
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