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Give to support a cause, address an issue or help a charitable organization. You can start your own fund, give to an existing fund, or give directly to Middle Tennessee nonprofits.

Awards Funds

  • The Carol Fay Ellison "The Biscuit Lady" Award Fund Established 2010

    Carol Fay Ellison, the woman whose famous biscuits and hard work ethic launched her from a teenage dishwasher at Loveless Café, onto the national stage as its famed "Biscuit Lady," always dreamt big. It is in that spirit this legacy was established to honor her memory. Through the Fund, an annual award will be given to help people over an obstacle in their lives, enabling them to move to the next step through support of their personal development. It is intended to change lives by addressing issues of health and well-being, self improvement or the like.

     
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  • Becky Darby Award Fund Established 2000

    At Becky's retirement in 2001, the board of United Way of Williamson County looked for a way to honor her and to create something special that captured her leadership and dedication. The award recognizes and encourages outstanding nonprofit leadership in Williamson County through the annual award of a grant to support the personal development of one or more health and human service nonprofit executives.

     
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  • Nashville Fashion Forward Fund Established 2011

    The Nashville Fashion Forward Fund is dedicated to supporting the next generation of fashion industry professionals with ties to Middle Tennessee and will present an annual award to advance the career of select local talent with demonstrated experience in a fashion-related field. Monies are raised for the Nashville Fashion Forward Fund through Nashville Fashion Week, founded and directed by Creative Co-op Nashville LLC, a collaboration of fashion, retail and media professionals who have partnered to combine resources and passion to create an event spotlighting Nashville's growing fashion industry.

     
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  • George Fox Membership Award to benefit the Kiwanis Club of Nashville Designated Fund Established 2005

    George Fox was tireless in his efforts to grow the Kiwanis Club. He believed that in recruiting members he was sharing a wonderful gift with them: the ability to help others. Each year, in George's memory, an award will be given to a Kiwanis Club member who does the most to recruit and retain members of the Club. The winner of the award will recommend that a gift from the Fund be made in his/her name to be given to his/her favorite nonprofit serving children.

     
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  • Joe Kraft Humanitarian Award Fund Established 1993

    The Joe Kraft Humanitarian Award perpetuates the memory of a very special person who made Middle Tennessee a better place to live through his dedication to community, home and hearth and individuals in need. The committee who chooses the recipient is particularly interested in nominations of community leaders who, like Joe, sometimes function behind the scenes. The person(s) named as the recipient of this annual award receives the opportunity to recommend that grants from this Fund be distributed to charities in which he or she believes.

     
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  • Lauren McCathren Translator Award Designated Fund Established 2006

    Lauren McCathren was drawn to the Spanish culture and traveled to Ecuador and other South and Central American countries. She loved the gentle spirits of the people she met and was especially moved by the gratitude and contentment she experienced in these people who seemingly had so little. In honor of Lauren's memory, this Fund is designated to help a Belmont University Spanish major travel to Ecuador each spring with other students on St. Augustine's annual spring break trip to work in support of the Escuela Anne Stevens.

     
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  • Robert D. Tanner Fund Established 2005

    Robert D. Tanner, emeritus and active professor at Vanderbilt University, has created the Robert D. Tanner Undergraduate Research Award in Chemical Engineering at Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering.

     
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  • TMTA Elizabeth Lovell Reed Memorial Scholarship Award Established 1997

    Established in memory of a child who never had the opportunity to explore music or her musical potential, this Fund is to endow the Tennessee Music Teachers Association's collegiate piano category of the aforementioned competitions.

     
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  • Tennessee Music Teachers Association Scholarship Award Endowment Established 1996

    Since 1991, hundreds of state winners of annual auditions have received awards from this Endowment Fund, created to assist students with the considerable expense of study, competition and travel required to achieve success in music. TMTA continues efforts to increase the amount of support given to these very talented students.

     
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  • Tennessee Music Teachers' Association-Carrie Warrick Memorial Scholarship Awards Endowment Fund Established 2007

    Seeking to raise standards of music teaching and performance in the state and to support students from elementary through college levels, through this Fund, The Tennessee Music Teachers' Association (TMTA) awards scholarships to accomplished and deserving music students who rank highest in the annual auditions. The Carrie E. Warrick Memorial Scholarship Awards Endowment Fund benefits the winners of the Music Teachers National Association Junior Piano Performance competition and the TMTA Ninth Grade Piano competition.

     
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