CFMT awards more than $2.72 million in grants to 453 Middle Tennessee organizations
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee is thrilled to announce $2,726,800 in grants to 453 local nonprofit organizations as part of the 2018 annual grantmaking process.
The grants will benefit nonprofits in 33 area counties: Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Coffee, Cumberland, Davidson, DeKalb, Dickson, Fentress, Franklin, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys, Jackson, Lawrence, Lewis, Lincoln, Macon, Marshall, Maury, Montgomery, Overton, Pickett, Putnam, Robertson, Rutherford, Stewart, Sumner, Trousdale, Warren, White, Williamson and Wilson counties.
The top three awards categories were Human Services-Children (16 percent of the grants), Education (15 percent), and Arts and Humanities (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.
2018 GRANTEES
| COUNTY | ORGANIZATION | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|---|
| BEDFORD | Bedford Builds Habitat for Humanity | To build and sell affordable housing to our low income community with a zero percent loan. |
| BEDFORD | Bedford County Imagination Library | to provide free, new age appropriate books each month to Bedford County children from birth to age five. |
| BEDFORD | Caregiver Relief Program of Bedford County | To provide at least $140 monthly for reimbursement for quality respite care to 20 families suffering with Alzheimer's disease. |
| BEDFORD | Community Clinic of Shelbyville and Bedford County, Inc. | To provide a monthly diabetic program for our diabetic patients to improve and stabilize their health. |
| BEDFORD | Community Development Center | To provide Family Services to 30 families, including professional counseling to ten families, to reduce stress of families with autism. |
| BEDFORD | Middle Tennessee Spay and Neuter Clinic Inc | To reduce pet overpopulation in middle Tennessee counties by providing free surgeries to 300 unowned (feral, stray and community) cats. |
| BEDFORD | Shelbyville-Bedford County Humane Association | To reduce local pet abandonment by accepting owner surrender dogs and cats and providing appropriate veterinary care prior to rehoming |
| BEDFORD | The Center for Family Development | To provide educational and enrichment groups for 100 teen and youth enrolled in the South Central Relative Caregiver Program |
| CANNON | CASA of Cannon County Tennessee | CASA trains and supports volunteers to advocate for children in the court system who are dependents of abuse and neglect. |
| CHEATHAM | Ark Community Resource and Assistance Center | To provide five fresh and nutritious prepared meals each week to 45 or more homebound individuals in south Cheatham County. |
| CHEATHAM | Cheatham County Animal Awareness Foundation | CCAAF provides low/no cost spay/ neuter services for the companion animals of Cheatham County residents who qualify as low income. |
| CHEATHAM | Cheatham County Kids, Inc | To provide resources and support for families of children with special needs as well as the challenged and disadvantaged. |
| CHEATHAM | Pegram Elementary School | To provide an educational and enriching art experience for elementary students with limited resources in our community. |
| COFFEE | Bel-Aire Elementary School | Bel-Aire wishes to provide fifth graders with Junior Achievements free-enterprise educational program, culminating with participation in JA BizTown. |
| COFFEE | CASA Works, Inc. | To train 10 volunteers using the revised National CASA approved curriculum to advocate for 20 youth. |
| COFFEE | Coffee County Schools | To improve academic performance and achievement by addressing chronic attendance issues within the Coffee County School System. |
| COFFEE | Coffee County Children's Advocacy Center | To provide child abuse prevention education, training and awareness activities to over 1,750 children and 225 adults in Coffee County. |
| COFFEE | Coffee County Historical Society | To establish a museum of Coffee County History in the historic courthouse in Manchester Tennessee |
| COFFEE | Coffee County Humane Society | To provide financial assistance for veterinary care for low income families' pets who have serious illness or injury |
| 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 | College Street Elementary | Provide new equipment that can be used to increase student and family engagement and increase physical activity opportunity, |
| COFFEE | Deerfield Elementary | To provide food for the Deerfield Backpack Special Needs Program, coats, shoes, and school supplies for Deerfield students |
| 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 undeserved rural counties through case management, counseling, and housing assistance. |
| COFFEE | Hospice of the Highland Rim Foundation, Inc. | Provide emergency grants for utilities, food and/or special needs assistance to patients on end-of-life care with hospice. |
| COFFEE | Manchester Parks & Recreation | To start our first after school program for children in Manchester and Coffee County. |
| COFFEE | Partners for Healing | 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/ items; dental, healthcare, vision, hygiene, clothing. shoes, and food services for children. |
| COFFEE | Tullahoma City Schools | To provide students and teachers with an innovative way to get exercise while learning with the Walking Classroom program. |
| COFFEE | Tullahoma South Jackson Civic Association | To provide 2 Artists in Residency for 4 Tullahoma Elementary Schools for an after school drama camp for 9 weeks. |
| 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 | Kids On The Rise | To provide shoes, coats, and haircuts for 44 students to boost self-esteem and ensure they are adequately clothed for weather. |
| CUMBERLAND | Roane State Community College | To provide a food pantry on Roane State's Cumberland County campus for our most food insecure students and their dependents. |
| CUMBERLAND | Stone Memorial High School | To provide our school food pantry with fresh vegetables through hydroponic vegetable production for students that are food insecure. |
| CUMBERLAND | Wags and Whiskers Pet Rescue, Inc | To provide 200 spay/neuter surgeries to low-income families in our area. |
| DAVIDSON | 100 Black Men of Middle Tennessee | The 100 is a non-profit dedicated to providing resources to further the academic and social development of black male students. |
| DAVIDSON | A Step Ahead Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc. | To provide free long-acting reversible contraception to 88 mothers under 25 years old by partnering with local health clinics. |
| DAVIDSON | Achilles International Inc. | To cover the cost for five Achilles Athletes and their Volunteer Guides to participate in both local and out-of-state |
| DAVIDSON | Actors Bridge Ensemble Theater of Nashville Inc | To provide program support for Act Like a GRRRL recruitment, expansion and facilitator training to reach more Middle Tennessee girls. |
| DAVIDSON | Adoption Hope Foundation/Carpenter's Square | To prepare 40 economically disadvantaged youth for higher education through basketball training, mentoring, and college readiness skills. |
| DAVIDSON | Adventure Science Center Nashville | Support Adventure Science Center's Science in Motion outreach programming, reaching over 17,000 people in Middle Tennessee. |
| DAVIDSON | Advocates for Women's and Kids' Equality (AWAKE) Inc. | To expand an educational opportunity for healthy relationships and finances to serve young women across middle Tennessee. |
| DAVIDSON | Agape Animal Rescue | To provide spay or neuter surgeries to 125 abandoned dogs to prepare them for permanent adoption. |
| DAVIDSON | AGAPE/Association for Guidance Aid Placement & Empathy | To provide emergency funds for domestic violence victims needing 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 | Alive Hospice | Providing compassionate hospice care to underserved patients in the Middle Tennessee community, regardless of insurance status or ability to pay. |
| DAVIDSON | ALS Association-Tennessee Chapter | The Respite Program provides funds to families living with ALS to hire caregivers so they can take a break. |
| DAVIDSON | American Diabetes Association | To provide a traditional summer camp experience in a medically-safe environment for 100 children and teens living with diabetes. |
| DAVIDSON | American Muslim Advisory Council | To educate Muslim Women to be active members of the community. |
| 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 provide new standard school attire to 3,200 economically disadvantaged MNPS elementary students during the 2018-2019 school year. |
| DAVIDSON | Autism Foundation of Tennessee | To provide support to at least 20 families affected by autism for services not covered by insurance. |
| DAVIDSON | Backfield in Motion | To improve the academic, social, and emotional learning of 175 economically disadvantaged minority males attending low-performing Metro Nashville Public Schools. |
| DAVIDSON | Begin Anew | To provide High School Equivalency and ESL classes for 30 students at Begin Anew's newest sites: Woodbine and South Nashville. |
| DAVIDSON | BELL Garden Bellevue Middle School Edible Learning Lab | In-garden and in-classroom gardening and science education for students and their families and community outreach supporting BELL Garden's mission. |
| DAVIDSON | Bellevue Harpeth Historic Association | To educate the community of Bellevue about the history of the area and the founders of our community. |
| DAVIDSON | Bellevue, Youth Incorporated In-Line Hockey | To provide maintenance and repair for the BELLEVUE IN-LINE HOCKEY RINK IN BELLEVUE 37221 |
| DAVIDSON | Bethlehem Centers of Nashville | To provide produce monthly to 36 seniors participating in the Seniors Club, as well as meals at session activities. |
| DAVIDSON | Better Decisions | To provide decision-making training and mentoring to 30-50 adult women incarcerated in Nashville prison, so 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 | Blackbird Theater Company | Blackbird Theater invites your partnership on a production of Cormac McCarthy's play THE SUNSET LIMITED. |
| DAVIDSON | Book'em | Provide 5,000 books to economically disadvantaged youth in Davidson County through little neighborhood libraries to develop stronger literacy skills |
| DAVIDSON | Boys and Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee | SMART Girls and Passport to Manhood allow adolescent girls and boys (ages 8 17) to build skills for adulthood. |
| DAVIDSON | Bridges for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing | Encourage early language development and healthy bonding in families of young children aged birth to 5 years of age. |
| DAVIDSON | CASA, Inc. | To recruit, train, and supervise volunteers to advocate in court for the safe, permanent placement of abused and neglected children. |
| 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 | Centerstone Foundation, Inc. | To create a therapeutic support group focused on suicide prevention with the goal of helping 32-48 individuals this year. |
| DAVIDSON | Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art | To provide enriching, multi-generational outings with all expenses covered for low-income Tennessee students and their family members |
| DAVIDSON | ChildcareTennessee | ChildcareTennessee, an initiative of The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, focuses on providing resources to create sustainability for childcare programs. |
| DAVIDSON | Choral Arts Link, Inc. | To provide quality, "whole-musician" choral training for MET Singer Youth Chorus. |
| DAVIDSON | Christian Cooperative Ministry | To provide food, water and toiletries for an average of 325 homeless lunch sacks 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 | To provide affordable, full-time preK childcare to low-income families in the James Cayce homes and surrounding neighborhood. |
| DAVIDSON | Community Resource Center | To provide personal hygiene products to disadvantaged seniors. |
| DAVIDSON | Conexion Americas | To provide innovative college access programming to 210 first-generation, immigrant and refugee high school students in Nashville. |
| DAVIDSON | Council on Aging of Greater Nashville | We will provide educational resources, information/referral and support for grandparents raising their grandchildren through community partners, outreach, and new technologies. |
| 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 provide equipment and educational materials for our humane education program, which teaches compassion and respect for all living things. |
| DAVIDSON | Cumberland River Compact | Demonstrate the Compact's Depave program, where we remove unneeded asphalt and convert it back to green space to capture stormwater. |
| DAVIDSON | Davidson County Mental Health and Veterans Assistance Foundation | The Foundation supports the work of the Davidson County Mental Health and Veterans Specialty Treatment Courts. |
| DAVIDSON | Discover Tennessee dba Tails of the Trail | Operate a program relocating healthy, at-risk dogs from Middle Tennessee open-access shelters to no-kill shelters in Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states. |
| DAVIDSON | Dismas, Inc. | To provide transitional housing and wrap around services for men recently released from incarceration. |
| 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 | Educators' Cooperative at University School of Nashville | To bring together teachers from public, charter, and private schools to share best practices focused on collaboration, teaching, and learning. |
| DAVIDSON | End Slavery Tennessee | To provide intensive and full spectrum aftercare services for 200 human trafficking survivors. |
| 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 | Faith & Culture Center | To train a diverse group of millennial leaders to integrate their communities across divides of faith, race, gender, and ethinicity. |
| DAVIDSON | Faith Family Medical Center | To provide 68 comprehensive, quality, primary health care visits to women in Davidson County who are uninsured or underinsured. |
| DAVIDSON | Family and Children's Service | This grant will provide Emergency Financial Assistance for 40 families in the Davidson County Relative Caregiver Program (DCRCP) |
| DAVIDSON | Family Foundation Fund | To provide agricultural training,health and nutrition programs, job opportunities and underwrite educational expenses to 16 constituents of our mentoring program |
| DAVIDSON | Family Reconciliation Center, Inc. | To provide free lodging for families visiting their loved ones in prison to connect families and prepare inmates for parole |
| DAVIDSON | Fannie Battle Day Home for Children, Inc | To provide safe and affordable care for children ages six weeks through two years who live in economically disadvantaged homes. |
| DAVIDSON | First Steps, Inc. | The new healthy living program will provide preschool students with education and access to healthier snack options. |
| DAVIDSON | Folds of Honor (Nashville Chapter) | To provide educational scholarships to the dependents of fallen and disabled service members in Davidson and Montgomery Counties. |
| DAVIDSON | Foundation for Tennessee Chess d/b/a Nashville Chess Center | To fund the costs of Chess for Children classes at Cumberland Elementary School from January to May 2019 |
| DAVIDSON | Friends of the Warner Parks, Inc. | To engage a skilled team in repairing Warner Parks' heavily-used trail system, providing improved access/safety for thousands of monthly visitors. |
| DAVIDSON | Friendship House | To provide support to women who seek recovery from alcoholism and drug addiction, through meetings, sponsorship and materials. |
| DAVIDSON | Frist Art Museum | To provide educational art programs and experiences to underserved Nashville communities through the Frist Art Museum's on-going Community Partner program |
| DAVIDSON | Galaxy Star Drug Awareness / Nashville Peacemakers | To provide 12 weeks of group swim and water safety lessons to 10 disadvantaged teen girls. |
| DAVIDSON | Gilda's Club Middle Tennessee | To build community among those impacted by cancer in Middle Tennessee, ensuring we face cancer together. |
| DAVIDSON | Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee, Inc. | Troop 6000 provides traditional Girl Scout Troop experiences in several troop locations to homeless girls 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 | GivingMatters.com | To operate a searchable database of nonprofit organizations for the purpose of encouraging informed giving in Middle Tennessee. |
| DAVIDSON | Global Education Center | To provide school and community education about contributions of composers and artists from the Spanish-speaking world to diverse music genres |
| DAVIDSON | Goodwill Industries of Middle TN, Inc | To provide vocational skills training and financial stipends for 176 trainees to prepare for and enter into competitive employment. |
| DAVIDSON | Governor's Books from Birth Foundation | Marshall, Jackson and Bedford County Imagination Libraries provide one free book per month to children ages birth to five. |
| DAVIDSON | Habitat for Humanity of Greater Nashville | To build homes and provide homebuyer education and financial counseling to low-income families preparing to buy an interest-free Habitat home. |
| DAVIDSON | Hands On Nashville, Inc. | To provide training and consulting that enables five nonprofits to leverage skilled volunteers to address community needs. |
| DAVIDSON | Harvest Hands Community Development Corporation | To purchase 20 laptops to create an on-site computer lab where students can complete homework and learn basic computer skills. |
| DAVIDSON | Healing Arts Project, Inc. | To provide free, creative experiences to hundreds of Middle Tennesseans in mental health and addiction recovery |
| DAVIDSON | Homework Hotline | To provide 2,000 free, one-on-one literacy and math tutoring sessions to 750 students and parents from 40 partnering Tennessee counties. |
| DAVIDSON | Hope Clinic for Women | To provide well-women, STD testing/Pap exams for 40 low-income, underserved women who would otherwise not have access to care. |
| DAVIDSON | Horizons at University School of Nashville | Horizons will provide 90 students from low income families the tools and support to become successful and confident college-bound students. |
| DAVIDSON | HUGGS for Inspirational Men and Women | To provide treatment and Addiction recovery to ex-offenders. This will also provide social, behavior, employment, functional, life skills |
| DAVIDSON | Humanities Tennessee | To provide Middle Tennessee public school students with a program that encourages and supports reading and literacy. |
| DAVIDSON | Insight Counseling Centers | To continue a successful partnership with Tusculum Elementary School, providing support and healing through therapeutic groups for refugee children. |
| DAVIDSON | Interfaith Dental Clinic | To provide compassionate, affordable emergency dental care to 200 of the clinic's 2,500 uninsured, low-income patients, preventing an ER visit. |
| DAVIDSON | Intersection | Performances of the music of Hannibal Lokumbe that promote diversity, community, arts access, and audience engagement through contemporary classical music. |
| DAVIDSON | Intrepid College Preparatory, Inc. | To purchase high-quality books for Intrepid College Prep's new library that will serve over 600 students. |
| 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 LGBTQ+ community |
| DAVIDSON | Jonah's Journey | To provide short term foster care to children whose parents are incarcerated with reunification as the goal. |
| DAVIDSON | Junior Achievement of Middle Tennessee | To improve sixth grade students' understanding of career exploration, global economics, technological/information literacy, and cross-cultural learning through JA Global Marketplace. |
| DAVIDSON | King's Daughters Day Home | To increase social/emotional development for 79 infants-5 years olds and their families. |
| DAVIDSON | Learning Matters, Inc. | Provide 4299 hours of academic remediation for low-middle income students with learning disabilities to increase self-esteem and opportunities for life. |
| DAVIDSON | Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands | To provide community education materials for client population on their legal rights and responsibilities in civil matters. |
| DAVIDSON | LETS Play | To use sports to motivate refugee and immigrant students in learning English in a fun, safe, and active environment. |
| DAVIDSON | Love In A Big World | To empower kids, families and communities through character education, healthy habits, social responsibility and FUN! |
| DAVIDSON | Luke 14:12 | To provide 11,360 free, hot, nutritional, dinner-style meals to Nashville's hungry, homeless and working poor. |
| DAVIDSON | Lutheran Services in Tennessee Inc. | To provide community art workshops for 120 at-risk youth living in poverty during school breaks and afterschool. |
| DAVIDSON | Make Music Nashville | Make Music Day is a live, free musical celebration every June 21 that provides performance opportunities and instruments/lessons for all. |
| DAVIDSON | Martha O'Bryan Center | To provide 300 K-8 students with dedicated out-of-school-time programming, including academic interventions, social-emotional workshops, and STEM, arts, and nutrition enrichment. |
| DAVIDSON | Matthew 25, Inc. | Matthew 25 provides Help, Hope, and Housing to homeless men in Nashville, both veteran and not veteran alike. |
| DAVIDSON | Matthew Walker Health Center | To provide screening mammograms for uninsured women in Clarksville and Smyrna. |
| DAVIDSON | McNeilly Center for Children | To provide Frog Street curriculum, Teaching Strategies Gold assessment tool and teacher tablets for 5 infant and toddler classrooms. |
| DAVIDSON | Medical Foundation of Nashville | To provide an additional 1,600 care coordination encounters to uninsured, low-income PANSC patients who are referred to volunteer physician specialists |
| DAVIDSON | Meharry Medical College | To provide free, high quality healthcare to the underserved of Nashville and train the next generation of healthcare providers. |
| DAVIDSON | Men of Valor | To provide education and training to men incarcerated in Core Civic and Tennessee Department of Corrections prisons and county jails. |
| DAVIDSON | Mending Hearts, Inc. | To provide basic needs, supplies and recovery material for an evidence-based recovery-oriented Re-entry program to 96 women ex-offenders. |
| DAVIDSON | Mental Health Association of Middle Tennessee | To provide mental health resources and transportation support 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 | To provide workforce development skills to 75 rural, at risk, low-income young adults in Dickson and Cheatham counties. |
| DAVIDSON | Middle Tennessee Science and Engineering Fair Foundation | Fostering secondary school STEM education and student research, and sponsoring the middle Tennessee Science and Engineering Fair. |
| DAVIDSON | Miriam's Promise | To provide assistance for basic needs to low-income moms during crisis pregnancies while providing pregnancy counseling free of charge. |
| DAVIDSON | Monroe Harding Inc. | To assist 31 foster families with support for children in their care with clothing, summer programs, extracurricular activities, and transportation. |
| DAVIDSON | Mother to Mother, Inc. | Project Carseat provides carseats for children without a carseat by facilitating the donation pipeline between organizations who serve such individuals. |
| DAVIDSON | Muscular Dystrophy Association | To provide durable medical equipment repairs through MDA's loaned equipment program that is made available to individuals with muscle diseases. |
| DAVIDSON | Music for Seniors | To facilitate 200 live music Outreach programs with lower-income seniors, including enhanced €œMusic Making Outreach Sessions€ to increase/deepen participant engagement. |
| DAVIDSON | Musicians On Call | To provide live bedside music performances to 1,300 Veterans receiving treatment at two VA hospitals in Nashville and Murfreesboro. |
| DAVIDSON | NAMI Tennessee | Expand NAMI Basics, a program for caregivers children living with mental illness to caregivers of children with DID or autism. |
| DAVIDSON | Nashville Adult Literacy Council, Inc. | To teach reading, writing, and English-speaking skills to adults in Nashville. |
| DAVIDSON | Nashville Area Association for Educators of Young Children | To provide ongoing, high quality, affordable, professional development opportunities to educators of our area's youngest children, birth-age 8. |
| DAVIDSON | Nashville Ballet | The expansion of "Jump, Frog, Jump!" performances to include a targeted, diversified audience in celebration of 15 years of programming. |
| 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 neuter 900 cats so that they may be put up for adoption. |
| DAVIDSON | Nashville Children's Alliance Inc. | We are requesting funds for training, client assistance, and program supplies for our services to reduce child abuse victim trauma. |
| DAVIDSON | Nashville Children's Theatre | NCT requests funds for an educator course, curricular support for classrooms, and ticket subsidies for Tomas and the Library Lady. |
| DAVIDSON | Nashville Classical Charter School | To provide nine to twelve after school enrichment programs at Nashville Classical open to 300 scholars in grades 1-5. |
| DAVIDSON | Nashville Conflict Resolution Center | To prevent eviction and homelessness for public housing residents of Metro Nashville by providing free mediation services on-site. |
| DAVIDSON | Nashville Diaper Connection | The "No Child Wet Behind" program provides baby diapers to mos that otherwise might not have them. |
| DAVIDSON | Nashville Digital Inclusion Fund | Nashville Digital Inclusion Fund provides Internet access, computers, devices, training and support to Nashville citizens who don't currently have access. |
| DAVIDSON | Nashville Dolphins (Dolphin Aquatics) | To provide a swim team to children and adults with special needs, at no cost to participants. |
| 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 International Center for Empowerment | 100 low-income New Americans will receive $100 subsidies to file immigration applications with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration (USCIS). |
| DAVIDSON | Nashville Jazz Workshop | Support for jazz education through private lessons and classes, for middle and high school students with motivation and financial need. |
| DAVIDSON | Nashville Launch Pad | To provide safe and affirming winter shelter to young people ages 18-24 experiencing homelessness. |
| DAVIDSON | Nashville Opera Association | To offer All-Access Opera Education to children in Middle Tennessee and to successfully launch a pilot program nationally. |
| 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 | Provide access to five mainstage plays for community members who may experience economic and/or educational barriers to live theatre. |
| DAVIDSON | Nashville Shakespeare Festival | Provide affordable or free public and school performances of_x000D_ JULIUS CAESAR; provide preparatory in-school workshops for students. |
| DAVIDSON | Nashville State Community College Foundation | If funded, this proposal will provide childcare assistance for low-income, high-need students attending Nashville State Community College (via the YMCA). |
| DAVIDSON | Nashville Steam Preservation Society | Restoration of Nashville's historic Centennial Park steam locomotive to provide economic, tourism, and educational benefits for the people of Nashville. |
| DAVIDSON | Nashville Symphony Association | To provide free, high-quality instrument instruction and music education experiences to 4,910 students in Nashville. |
| DAVIDSON | Nashville Tools For Schools, Inc. | To provide custom-made classroom furnishing for teachers in Metro Nashville Public Schools. |
| DAVIDSON | Nashville Tree Foundation | To purchase and provide education for planting/caring for 500 trees in Nashville communities to support city tree canopy goals. |
| 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 vital immigration services to 150 refugees needing to apply for green cards, citizenship, or other important immigration needs. |
| DAVIDSON | NeedLink Nashville | To help 30 low-income women who are pregnant or have newborn babies under 6-months avoid homelessness and/or utility disconnection. |
| DAVIDSON | Neighborhoods Resource Center | To expand our current Neighborhood Leadership Certification Program to include a Neighborhood Planning & Engagement Course. |
| DAVIDSON | Notes for Notes, Inc. | To provide free access to instruments, musical instruction, and recording studios to youth in underserved populations. |
| DAVIDSON | Nurses for Newborns of Tennessee | To prevent infant mortality, child abuse and neglect through home visitation by registered nurses. |
| DAVIDSON | Oasis Center, Inc. | To provide empowerment programming, counseling, advocacy, and training to improve the lives and conditions for LGBTQ youth in Middle Tennessee. |
| DAVIDSON | Operation Homefront, Inc. | To provide military families and veterans with financial support to cover critical utility expenses through our Critical Financial Assistance Program. |
| DAVIDSON | Operation Stand Down Tennessee | To provide job skills training, specialized clothing, boots or tools, and reliable transportation for Veterans to access or maintain employment. |
| DAVIDSON | Park Center | To provide art therapy for people with chronic mental illness, homelessness or addiction. |
| 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 | PENCIL Foundation | Providing experiential learning opportunities to MNPS high-school students that provide encouragement, resources, and support for graduation and future professional success. |
| DAVIDSON | Pet Community Center | To trap-neuter-return 167 unowned, free-roaming, and feral cats (community cats) through the Community Cat Program (CCP). |
| DAVIDSON | Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi | Expand and launch college program: "Sexperts" sexual health peer education for Austin Peay (APSU) students to fill an educational gap. |
| DAVIDSON | Plant the Seed | To inspire and empower young-people through garden-based learning- connecting them to the land, their education and one another. |
| DAVIDSON | Play Like a Girl! | To provide access to STEM education in a sports context for 150 rising ninth grade girls from low-income households. |
| DAVIDSON | Poverty and the Arts | Provide creative resources and a marketplace to individuals impacted by homelessness so they can gain skills, income, and stability. |
| DAVIDSON | Preserve Lindsley Avenue Now, Inc. | Enhance the church building's kitchen, classrooms, and dining/fellowship area, to better serve our community. |
| DAVIDSON | Preston Taylor Ministries | To provide after-school reading instruction to 20 students (K-4th grade) living in a low-income community in North Nashville. |
| DAVIDSON | Prevent Child Abuse Tennessee | To educate and empower 200 Davidson families to prevent ACEs and provide safe, stable and nurturing homes for their children. |
| DAVIDSON | Project Return, Inc. | To provide pre-release support to inmates of the CoreCivic-managed incarceration facilities in Tennessee. |
| DAVIDSON | Project Transformation Tennessee Inc | To provide an eight-week summer literacy program for more than 450 children in low-income neighborhoods across Middle Tennessee. |
| DAVIDSON | Proverbs 1210 Animal Rescue | To provide one year of heartworm protection for the approximately 150 pets in our program during any given month. |
| DAVIDSON | Rebuilding Together Nashville | To preserve affordable housing for low-income seniors, veterans, and disabled homeowners through repairing and renovating their homes. |
| DAVIDSON | Rejoice School of Ballet | Rejoice Ballet empowers youth by training, nurturing and celebrating dancers from diverse racial, socioeconomic, cultural and developmental backgrounds. |
| DAVIDSON | Renewal House, Inc. | To provide trauma-informed, gender-specific intensive outpatient addiction treatment for 70 low-income women, including specialized programming for pregnant and postpartum mothers. |
| DAVIDSON | Rest Stop Ministries, Inc. | Providing long-term residential restorative care to adult female survivors of sex trafficking in a trauma-informed community of holistic healing support |
| DAVIDSON | Ronald McDonald House Charities of Nashville Tennessee, Inc. | To provide essential resources and a €œhome-away-from-home€ for families of critically ill children receiving medical treatment at a Nashville hospital. |
| DAVIDSON | Safe Haven Family Shelter | To provide critical academic, behavioral and social-emotional supports to SHFS children experiencing homelessness; reducing the negative impact of housing instability. |
| DAVIDSON | Saint Thomas Health Foundation | To bring life-saving screening mammography to 72 uninsured/underserved women in Bedford, Coffee, and Warren Counties through a mobile mammography outreach. |
| DAVIDSON | Salvation Army of Nashville | The Salvation Army Pathway of Hope program strives to break the cycle of inter-generational poverty. |
| DAVIDSON | Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee | To provide healthy food and nutrition education to 500 children at eleven Kids Cafe sites. |
| DAVIDSON | Senior Ride Nashville Inc. | To provide 500 hours of backup driver services, ensuring senior adults have transportation to remain connected and access essential services. |
| DAVIDSON | Sexual Assault Center | To provide therapy and support for 24 low-income girls under 18 years old, affected by sexual assault/abuse. |
| DAVIDSON | Shower the people | To provide mobile showers and hygiene kits to 500 people experiencing homelessness in Nashville. |
| DAVIDSON | Siloam Family Health Center | To enhance the health literacy of newly arrived refugees while providing meaningful engagement opportunities for volunteer community members. |
| DAVIDSON | Society of Saint Andrew, Inc. | To provide fresh, healthy food to hungry people, while reducing food waste |
| DAVIDSON | Southern Alliance for People and Animal Welfare | Meeting the increase in need for our spay/neuter transport that serves pet owners living at or 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 | St. Luke's Community House | To provide hunger relief for 165 children, seniors and disabled residents through our Mobile Meals and Child Development Program. |
| DAVIDSON | Starlings Nashville | To provide a program that will encourage leadership skills for underserved youth ages 5-18. |
| 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 | Street Theatre Company | A social awareness after-school, no-cost program allows teens to create and perform an original play in a safe, encouraging environment. |
| DAVIDSON | Tennessee Association of Craft Artists (Tennessee Craft) | to support and expand FREE community festival with artists and hands-on craftmaking, creating next generation of craft artists and collectors. |
| DAVIDSON | Tennessee Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence | To provide emergency financial assistance of up to $300 to 33 victims of domestic and sexual violence in Middle Tennessee. |
| DAVIDSON | Tennessee Environmental Council | To engage 25,000 volunteers in planting 250,000 native tree seedlings across Tennessee, and half of these in Middle Tennessee. |
| DAVIDSON | Tennessee for Alliance Kids, Inc. | To meet the emergent needs for 35 kids who are at risk of coming into Foster Care or aging out. |
| DAVIDSON | Tennessee Foreign Language Institute Fund | To provide English as a Second Language (ESL) instruction to adult refugees and immigrants who are unable to access class. |
| DAVIDSON | Tennessee Higher Education Initiative, Inc. | Provide Computer Applications courses, as a step in the completion of an A.S. degree, to incarcerated students in Middle TN. |
| DAVIDSON | Tennessee Historical Society | To engage grade 6-12 students in project-based learning, critical thinking, and historical research through History Day, a year-long curriculum program. |
| DAVIDSON | Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition | Intermediate English classes that catapults adult immigrants toward conversational fluency needed for daily life; including digital literacy and community engagement. |
| DAVIDSON | Tennessee Justice Center | To provide leadership development and community engagement opportunity for mothers of vulnerable children. |
| DAVIDSON | Tennessee Justice for Our Neighbors | To provide humanitarian immigration legal services to low income immigrants and refugees affected by global violence and terror. |
| DAVIDSON | Tennessee Kidney Foundation Inc | To provide access to life-sustaining medical care for 10 low-income individuals with no alternative transportation for 12-14 treatments per month. |
| DAVIDSON | Tennessee Lions Charities, Inc. | To provide free vision screenings for children between the ages of 12 to 72 months in Middle Tennessee. |
| DAVIDSON | Tennessee Performing Arts Center | To bring professional artist residencies to Pre-K classrooms: 30-minute sessions offered 2x/week for 6-7 weeks, during fall and spring semesters. |
| 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 Parks Conservancy | To provide funding for 500+ low-income students in Middle Tennessee to take a field trip to a Tennessee State Park. |
| DAVIDSON | Tennessee State University Foundation | To provide training in biotechnology in a summer camp program for 6th to 8th grade students |
| DAVIDSON | Tennessee Voices for Victims | To provide one Victim Impact Curriculum and a one-day training to Humphreys County Jail staff |
| DAVIDSON | Tennessee Wildlife Federation | Provide over 80,000 pounds of healthy, protein-rich venison to hunger-relief organizations for distribution to needy families in Middle Tennessee. |
| 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 | The Branch of Nashville | To provide more efficient and enhanced English learning options to the New Americans coming to our classes. |
| DAVIDSON | The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Early Childhood Education | To provide four one-year scholarships to four children ages 6-weeks to 4 years for safe quality early childhood education. |
| DAVIDSON | The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee NowPlayingNashville | To support arts organizations and encourage audience engagement by providing the community with a comprehensive arts and entertainment events guide. |
| DAVIDSON | The Conservancy for the Parthenon and Centennial Park | To support 40 Tennessee based emerging artists performing at The Conservancy's free 2019 Musicians Corner concerts in Centennial Park. |
| DAVIDSON | The Contributor Inc. | To invest in 200 people experiencing homelessness and poverty, providing economic mobility through The Contributor's Transitional Employment Program. |
| DAVIDSON | The F.I.N.D. Design | To provide programming for 75 Antioch girls that focus on healing and restoring relationships with €œself€, community and police. |
| DAVIDSON | The Family Center Inc | Positive Parenting program for 69 soon-to-be-released incarcerated parents proven to increase skills/knowledge, lower risk of abuse; pilot 2-generational parent/child sessions. |
| DAVIDSON | The HELP Center | The HELP Center provides employment, counseling, education and supportive services to male and female offenders, ex-offenders and low income individuals. |
| DAVIDSON | The Hermitage / Andrew Jackson Foundation | The work will consist of exterior painting of Andrew Jackson's home built between 1819-1837 including repairing woodwork and gutter replacement. |
| 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 Mary Parrish Center | To help defray the costs of healthcare, legal costs, food, and other essential emergency needs for our residents. |
| DAVIDSON | The Minerva Foundation | Raise awareness and decrease the stigma about mental health issues in the Middle Tennessee black community with women. |
| DAVIDSON | The Nashville Food Project, Inc. | Bringing people together to grow, cook and share nourishing food, with goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in Nashville. |
| DAVIDSON | The New Beginnings Center | To provide 130 low-income women with 9,360 hours of wellness coaching that improves physical fitness, health and quality of life. |
| DAVIDSON | The Next Door | To provide addiction treatment services for all adult women |
| DAVIDSON | The Porch Writers' Collective | To encourage empathy, introspection, and creativity through monthly creative-writing workshops for high school students in Middle Tennessee. |
| DAVIDSON | The Sports Fund of The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee | Grants to engage youth in team activities |
| DAVIDSON | Thistle Farms, Inc. | To provide housing, healthcare, and job training to 29 women survivors of trafficking, prostitution, and addiction. |
| DAVIDSON | Time to Rise, Inc. | Increase life chances of at-risk youth through academic acceleration and support, cultural enrichment, and access to positive role models. |
| DAVIDSON | TOM:Vanderbilt | To develop innovative and affordable technology solutions that serve the neglected needs of people with disabilities. |
| DAVIDSON | Travellers Rest Historic House Museu | Historic Travellers Rest is developing a multi-pronged program to interpret Native American history from the pre-contact to early historic period. |
| DAVIDSON | United Cerebral Palsy of Middle TN | To provide durable medical equipment and essential healthcare supplies to 2,300 individuals with all types of severe disabilities. |
| DAVIDSON | United Neighborhood Health Services | To increase access to hepatitis A, B and C treatment for those at the highest risk of contracting hepatitis C. |
| DAVIDSON | United Way of Middle Tennessee, Inc. | Provide children, birth to five, with age-appropriate books to build a strong foundation for literacy proficiency and academic success. |
| DAVIDSON | Urban League of Middle Tennessee | Project Ready 2.0 will provide leadership, empowerment and educational access to African American and other minorities and disenfranchised youth. |
| DAVIDSON | Volunteers of America Mid-States | To enhance the quality of life for the 31 adults with developmental disabilities whom we support in our community-based homes. |
| DAVIDSON | Vox Grata, Inc | Develop a large scale choral work giving voice to those affected by addiction and providing hope, healing and understanding. |
| DAVIDSON | W.O. Smith Community Music School | To provide an all-inclusive overnight music camp experience to seventy W.O. Smith students in June 2019. |
| DAVIDSON | Walden's Puddle | To provide quality care/treatment to Tennessee wildlife in need, with the goal of returning the rehabilitated wildlife to the wild. |
| DAVIDSON | Water City USA | To introduce Nashville's Storm Drain Program, the Southeast's first technology solution that meets environmental volunteers at home, to Williamson County. |
| DAVIDSON | Water Walkers | To provide year-round employment to 4 at risk youth, ages fourteen to eighteen, who live in the Edgehill Homes. |
| DAVIDSON | Welcome Home Ministries | To provide supported employment services for 80 clients seeking recovery in Welcome Home Ministries' alcohol and drug recovery support program. |
| DAVIDSON | Westminster Home Connection | Building a Maury County home repair and mobility modification program for seniors and people with disabilities to age in place. |
| DAVIDSON | Wings Of Courage | To provide escape bags for all victims of domestic violence in Nashville/ Middle Tennessee. |
| DAVIDSON | YMCA of Middle Tennessee | The YMCA requests funds to enhance meaningful participation in its Food Program through family engagement and by incentivizing healthy living. |
| DAVIDSON | You Have the Power... Know How to Use It, Inc. | To support existing prevention programs on child sexual abuse, bullying, acquaintance rape, domestic violence, human sex trafficking, and elder abuse. |
| DAVIDSON | Youth Encouragement Services | partially fund our Reading Enhancement Program for forty second fifth grade students who are enrolled at our two centers |
| DAVIDSON | Youth Villages | To provide critical needs and services for 20-25 youth aging out of state custody participating in the YV LifeSet program. |
| DAVIDSON | YWCA Nashville & Middle Tennessee | To provide safety, housing, and case management to promote healing and self-sufficiency in 500 victims of domestic violence. |
| DEKALB | Cannon County Community For Animals | To provide spay and neuter services for animals that are in low income or homeless situations. |
| DEKALB | Dekalb Animal Coalition Shelter | Animal Shelter Training for Women in Sober Living (substance abuse recovery) |
| DEKALB | DeKalb County Board of Education-Coordinated School Health | To provide food every weekend during the school year for students in need. |
| DEKALB | Tennessee Tech University / Craft Center | To enable art educators to design and lead hands-on workshops for their students and other educators in five craft media. |
| DICKSON | 23rd District Judicial Advocates, Inc. | To assist addicts in their recovery by combining addiction services with the judicial process. |
| DICKSON | CareNet Pregnancy Medical Center | To provide educational information regarding infant CPR and first aid kits to clients who complete their requirements. |
| DICKSON | CASA of Dickson County | To provide an advocate for 20 additional children in foster care due to abuse and neglect in Dickson County. |
| DICKSON | Charlotte Fagan United Methodist Church | To provide affordable, choral music education and enrichment to children and adults of all ages in Dickson and surrounding counties. |
| DICKSON | City of Dickson Parks and Recreation | Kids bicycle and safety program |
| DICKSON | Dickson Community Clinic | To provide primary medical care to the uninsured patients of Dickson and surrounding counties |
| DICKSON | Dickson County Family YMCA | The YMCA would be able to better serve the community with the use of a commercial washer and dryer. |
| DICKSON | Dickson County High School | Improving leadership and presentation skills in 150+ high school students by using supplemental technology to practice and enhance soft skills. |
| DICKSON | Dickson County High School | To provide materials / resources for social / emotional learning, soft skills training, and character development for DCHS freshman |
| DICKSON | Dickson County Schools CTE Department | To better prepare our Digital Arts students to be college and career ready. |
| DICKSON | Dickson County Sheriffs Office | To provide our community with driver safety education by purchasing a pedal kart kit for distracted and impaired driving. |
| DICKSON | Dickson Housing Authority | To help single parents get back in the work place |
| DICKSON | Dickson Police Department | Community Unity with bike safety patrol to have one on one positive experiences with community members. |
| DICKSON | Drug Free Dickson Coalition | To reduce alcohol, tobacco and drug use in Dickson County, especially among Dickson County youth. |
| DICKSON | Governor Frank G. Clement Railroad Hotel and Historical Museum | Provide retail, restaurant and recreational listings, maps, and questionnaires to visitors, increasing economic growth and development in Dickson County. |
| DICKSON | Last Chance Pet Rescue, Inc. | To provide spay/neuter assistance for the owned animals of residents of Dickson County |
| DICKSON | Lonesome Pioneer Park | A program to make Lonesome Park a tangible teaching tool for all students of area schools, aligned to instructional standards. |
| DICKSON | Oakmont Elementary | To provide alternative seating that allows students the freedom and flexibility to learn in a non-traditional school setting. |
| DICKSON | The Friends of White Bluff, Inc. | Support community theater in Dickson County by providing funds to purchase show licensing and actor stipends for 2019 theater season. |
| DICKSON | The Quest Center for Art & Community Development, Inc. | Year-round music education & youth development programs serving elementary, middle and high-school students living in rural, lower-income communities. |
| DICKSON | William James Middle School | To create a positive reinforcement program for students that includes rewards and recognition. |
| FENTRESS | Best Friends Sanctuary, Inc. | To assist the low income citizens of Fentress County to be able to spay/neuter their pets. |
| FENTRESS | The Conservation Fund | To permanently protect 14,769 acres of working forestland and wildlife habitat in Fentress and Overton Counties |
| FRANKLIN | Almost Home Transitional Housing Program | To provide a safe transitional housing program to homeless in Franklin County. |
| FRANKLIN | Folks at Home | To improve balance and to raise awareness of fall risks in the home thereby reducing falls among our elders. |
| 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 needy families in Franklin County average ~350 per month. |
| FRANKLIN | Raise a Reader in Franklin County | Provide free books to children from birth to age five. |
| FRANKLIN | West Middle School | WMS needs a program for students who do not have the basic resources to meet their basic needs at WMS. |
| 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 Humane Society Inc | To provide spay/neuter services for 125 dogs and 50 cats owned by citizens in Hickman County with limited financial means. |
| HICKMAN | Women Are Safe | To improve the safety of children and adults who receive services at our Domestic Violence Outreach Office. |
| HOUSTON | Bethesda Community Mission, Inc. | To provide emergency assistance with food, utilities, rent or mortgage payments and other housing options for 80 struggling families. |
| 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, TN) | To financially assist Jackson County residents to get their pets spayed or neutered. |
| JACKSON | Granville Museum, Inc. | To provide an entertaining and historical view of a rural river community in the 1960's |
| LAWRENCE | Kid's Place Child Advocacy Center | Kid's Place provides free services to child victims of severe abuse; sexual and/or severe physical abuse. |
| LEWIS | Plenty International | To provide counselor training and leadership development to 10 Nashville youth who were child participants in Kids To The Country. |
| LINCOLN | Southern Alliance For Animal Welfare/Lincoln Co. | 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 | Enhance the lives of animals & community by providing affordable spay/neuter services and vaccines to prevent over population & hardships. |
| MARSHALL | Governor's Books from Birth Foundation | The Marshall County Imagination Library provides one new book per month to children birth to age five. |
| MARSHALL | In His Image Pregnancy Resource Center | To supply our Baby Boutique with much needed items such as Baby Beds, Crib mattresses, car seats, etc. |
| MAURY | African American Heritage Society of Maury County | To place a historical marker at the site of the Columbia, TN branch of the Freedmen's Savings and Trust 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 & human trafficking. |
| MAURY | Family 2 Family | To assist families in the Mount Pleasant community to meet basic utility needs. |
| MAURY | Maury County Students in Transition | To provide short-term emergency assistance for transitional/extremely needy Maury County students as verified by the Maury County School System. Maury |
| 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 | 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 | Watershed Public Theatre | Project support for Summer Classics production of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. |
| MONTGOMERY | Big Brothers Big Sisters of Clarksville | To provide children facing adversity with strong, professionally-supported, one-to-one mentoring to increase their confidence, academic achievement and community engagement. |
| MONTGOMERY | Clarksville Montgomery County Arts and Heritage Development Council | To contract with sculptor and foundry to create models/molds/castings of state icons (iris, box turtle) for Tennessee Discovery Trails. |
| MONTGOMERY | Gateway Chamber Orchestra | To establish a nationally-recognized classical music festival in Middle Tennessee and to engage the local military population in that festival. |
| MONTGOMERY | Loaves and Fishes of Clarksville | Expand meal availability from six to seven days per week, starting with a brown bag meal available on every Saturday. |
| MONTGOMERY | Manna Cafe Ministries | To provide two hot meals (1 breakfast, 1 supper) and other valuable resources to approximately 128 low-income individuals per week. |
| MONTGOMERY | Roxy Productions, Inc. | To support artistic salaries for TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD at the Roxy Regional Theatre in March 2019. |
| MONTGOMERY | The Clarksville-Montgomery County Historical Museum | Create an "If These Walls Could Talk " exhibit using collections/interactives to contrast changes in 175 years of lifeways. |
| MONTGOMERY | United Methodist Urban Ministries | To provide emergency assistance to encourage independence and self-respect for clients who are in temporary financial crisis. |
| OVERTON | Council of Americana Roots Music | A festival dedicated to the preservation, presentation, and archiving of Americana Roots music; and a base for our humanitarian aid. |
| PICKETT | Good Neighbors Theatre, Inc. | Provide theatrical/musical productions, workshops and exhibits that involve, educate, entertain and enrich residents from this and the surrounding rural area. |
| PICKETT | Paws of Dale Hollow | To control the feral cat population of Pickett County through a program of trap, neuter, and release. |
| PUTNAM | Bryan Symphony Orchestra | The Bryan Symphony Orchestra provides free education concerts for all fourth-graders of Putnam, Warren, and Cumberland counties each year. |
| PUTNAM | Cookeville Regional Medical Center Foundation | To influence cancer treatment strategies for patients by offering genetic testing and genetic counseling for Cancer Center Patients. |
| PUTNAM | Helping Hands of Putnam County | To provide utility assistance to low income families and families experiencing a crisis in Putnam County. |
| PUTNAM | Humane Society of Putnam County | Spay or neuter 1800 pets belonging to low income families in the targeted seven counties of the Upper Cumberland. |
| PUTNAM | Putnam County Senior Citizens | To provide a healthy breakfast option every morning for 40-70 participants to help fight against senior hunger. |
| PUTNAM | Tennessee Future Farmers of America Foundation, Inc. | To make a positive difference in the lives of students through the TNFFA Agriscience Fair. |
| PUTNAM | Upper Cumberland Broadcast Council/WCTE-TV | To digitize and archive 40 years of historically and culturally important video content and to provide public access to same. |
| ROBERTSON | Greater Faith Community Action Corporation | To sustain the feeding capacity of the Master's Table Soup Kitchen in Springfield, Tennessee. |
| ROBERTSON | Robertson County Child Advocacy Center | Provide interpreter services to Spanish speaking families when a child is referred for Forensic interview, Victim Advocacy and Family Advocacy. |
| RUTHERFORD | Amelia's Closet | To provide a mobile outreach service, in addition to our storefront operation, to assist women with transportation barriers. |
| RUTHERFORD | Boys & Girls Clubs of Rutherford County | To increase STEM opportunities utilizing the Leap Into Science curriculum for underrepresented youth, ensuring our kids have great futures. |
| RUTHERFORD | Carpe Artista | To provide a business, culture and community leadership program for high school students who are pursuing career in the arts |
| RUTHERFORD | Center for the Arts Inc | The Center for the Arts (CFTA) provides year-round classes in theatrical arts to youth in Rutherford County. |
| RUTHERFORD | Discovery Center at Murfree Spring / Children's Museum Corporation of Rutherford County | Artist fees and supplies for an artist in residence program |
| RUTHERFORD | Domestic Violence Program, Inc. | Provide a Mobile Sexual Assault Nurses Exam (SANE) program to improve sexual assault services in community and provide 50 exams. |
| RUTHERFORD | Dominion Financial Management Inc. | To provide financial coaching for 25 low-income families to help creating a clear, concise action plan to accomplish financial goals. |
| RUTHERFORD | Doors of Hope | To provide wrap around services for 20-25 Phase I clients immediately after they leave incarceration and/or residential drug rehabilitation programs |
| RUTHERFORD | Elders First Adult Day Services Association | To enhance mental and physical capabilities of 20 cognitively impaired older adults and prevent institutionalization; providing respite for their caregivers |
| RUTHERFORD | Endure Athletics Foundation | After school program for homeless children and youth living in our community. |
| 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 | Feed America First of Tennessee | Increasing food agencies and food distribution |
| RUTHERFORD | Habitat for Humanity of Rutherford County | To provide fire and carbon monoxide detectors in 75 homes in our new Legacy Point affordable housing sub-division. |
| RUTHERFORD | Howard's Hope, Inc | To fund free organized Level II swim lessons for 1,000 children residing in low-income Middle Tennessee households. |
| RUTHERFORD | Jesse C Beesley Animal Humane Foundation | To provide care and kindness to animals through affordable spay/neuter services, preventative care, and education about responsible pet ownership. |
| RUTHERFORD | Middle Tennessee Fund for Women and Girls | To provide salary negotiation training to working women from Middle Tennessee at sites located in Rutherford County and Davidson County. |
| RUTHERFORD | Middle Tennessee State University Foundation | Through comprehensive trainings, we work to eliminate homophobia, transphobia, and LGBT+ bias at MTSU and provide support for LGBT+ |
| RUTHERFORD | Murfreesboro Muslim Youth | To engage youth in providing 900 free meal vouchers to approximately 400 homeless individuals, in partnership with three Murfreesboro nonprofits. |
| RUTHERFORD | Murfreesboro Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra Association, Inc. | To educate students in the art of symphonic music through school visits and free concerts with professional musicians. |
| RUTHERFORD | Possibility Place | We provide work, academic, social and community-based learning program for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. |
| RUTHERFORD | Read To Succeed | Read To Succeed improves lives in Rutherford County by offering free literacy programs and events for adults and children. |
| RUTHERFORD | Salvation Army of Rutherford County | Its mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination. |
| RUTHERFORD | Smyrna Senior Citizens, Inc. | To make our building more ADA compliant and to refresh its look to be safe and appealing to our members. |
| RUTHERFORD | Smyrna-LaVergne Food Bank | To establish a new food distribution center benefiting nonprofit feeding programs across the region through free food, supplies and collaborations. |
| RUTHERFORD | Special Kids | To provide life skills training for participants with special needs ages 6-25 designed to improve their quality of life. |
| RUTHERFORD | Stepping Stones Safe Haven Inc. | To provide case management to our homeless clients and their children while they reside in our night shelter. |
| RUTHERFORD | United Way of Rutherford County | United Way's Rutherford Books from Birth builds a foundation for reading for children 0-5 by providing a complimentary book monthly. |
| RUTHERFORD | You Can Make It Home Ownership Center Inc | To expand homebuyer education through non-delinquency post-purchase education to 150 low-moderate income families preparing for home ownership. |
| STEWART | Governor's Books from Birth Foundation | To provide books to the children from birth to age 5 of Stewart County to enhance their interest in reading |
| 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 populations. |
| SUMNER | Ashley's Place | To provide community outreach and child sexual abuse prevention education to youth and adults throughout Sumner County. |
| SUMNER | Borderless Arts Tennessee | To provide an art program to create awareness of water conservation. |
| SUMNER | Decisions, Choices, and Options Inc | Provide mentoring programs and educational information on avoiding STDs and unplanned pregnancy among the high risk youth served. |
| SUMNER | Friends of the Hendersonville Arts Council | General program support for year-round fine arts exhibitions, events, performances, educational/ outreach programs for 10,000+ Middle TN youth and families. |
| SUMNER | Gallatin CARES | We provide support services for families enduring drama or trauma or simply cant meet needs in spite of best efforts. |
| SUMNER | Gallatin Shalom Zone | Leadership Shalom-Students in middle and high school will work to become trained community leaders. These leaders will work with mentors. |
| SUMNER | Home Bound Meals Program | Provides meals for the elderly and disabled population who are unable to provide meals for themselves. |
| SUMNER | Jason Foundation, Inc. | To provide police, firemen and first responders training in suicide awareness and prevention for both communities and their peers. |
| SUMNER | Recovery Court of Sumner County, Inc. | Programming to facilitate lasting recovery for individuals with addiction issues, so they can become responsible citizens. |
| SUMNER | Sumner County CASA | To provide a training and support for 30 volunteers, who will be advocating for abused and neglected children. |
| SUMNER | Sumner County Museum | Contract with a Curator for the Sumner County Museum, whose primary responsibility would be digitization of collections. |
| SUMNER | Sumner Spay Neuter Alliance | To provide free spay/neuter surgeries for medium and large breed dogs to families with financial need. |
| SUMNER | Sumner Teen Center | To provide cooking, nutrition, exercise and healthy living workshops to 50 boys and girls in Sumner County. |
| SUMNER | Volunteer Equine Advocates | To provide feed and vet care to horses, donkeys, and mules rescued in Middle TN that are seized by law. |
| TROUSDALE | Fix Trousdale | Funding will help us continue offering low cost, high quality, spay neuter services to dogs and cats in Trousdale County. |
| WARREN | Children's Advocacy Center for the 31st Judicial District | We will meet the needs of identified child abuse victims through comprehensive, coordinated and compassionate intervention and recovery services. |
| 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 | Habitat for Humanity of Warrren County | To build homes for needy families in the warren county middle Tennessee area |
| WARREN | Pauls Clinic, Inc. | To sterilize 250 pets that reside in low-income households. |
| WHITE | White County Humane Society | To provide financial assistance to 212 pet owners who could otherwise not afford to have their pets spayed or neutered. |
| WHITE | White County Public Library Foundation | To expand and strengthen the programs offered to promote reading and literacy for all ages during the summer. |
| WILLIAMSON | ABLE Youth, Inc. | To provide partial funding for our wheelchair basketball team to participate in out of town regional basketball tournaments. |
| WILLIAMSON | Against the Grain, Inc. | To provide Life Recovery programs, Job Skills and Reentry services to 250 inmates held in Middle Tennessee Jails and Prisons. |
| WILLIAMSON | ARC of Williamson County | Provide cameras for young adults in the Photovoice Program and provide books for young adults in Next Chapter Book Clubs. |
| WILLIAMSON | Arts Council of Williamson County | To provide funds, to support the Artist in Residence Program to be held during the 2018-2019 school year. |
| WILLIAMSON | Backlight Productions | To use theater and performance arts to benefit and enrich the lives of 30 adults having physical and intellectual disabilities. |
| WILLIAMSON | Best Buddies Tennessee | Best Buddies Jobs provides job training and development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in nontraditional settings, promoting inclusion. |
| WILLIAMSON | Bridges Domestic Violence Center | Provides assistance, safety planning, education about court processes, access to attorneys, and court accompaniment for domestic violence victims. |
| WILLIAMSON | BrightStone, Inc. | To provide scholarships for adults with disabilities needing financial assistance to benefit from BrightStone's comprehensive job training and enrichment program. |
| WILLIAMSON | Building Lives Foundation Inc. | To provide housing and rehabilitation to 17 veterans suffering from or at-risk of homelessness due to addiction or mental illness. |
| WILLIAMSON | Camp Marymount | To provide solar power to 4 senior camp cabins and the horse barn, encouraging environmental sustainability to our campers. |
| WILLIAMSON | Frank Town Open Hearts Ministry, Inc. | To increase accessibility in technology, while improving knowledge and literacy in computer programs for eight high school youth. |
| WILLIAMSON | Gentry's Education Center at the Store Front, Inc. | To provide tutoring and enrichment for 100 elementary students through TEAMS (Tutoring and Enrichment Achieving More Success). |
| WILLIAMSON | GiGi's Playhouse, Inc. | Provide intensive, individualized, one-to-one literacy and math tutoring to individuals with Down syndrome to further promote self-esteem, self-confidence and independence. |
| WILLIAMSON | Good Neighbor Foundation DBA Leaving The Cocoon | Provide re-entry needs to over 60 females...medical, rent, clothing, education, etc. |
| 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 focusing on community-based mapping of local watersheds |
| 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 sanctuary care for HCW sanctuary dogs |
| WILLIAMSON | High Hopes Development Center | To provide curricular and development assessment materials to 120+ students with and without special needs from 1 y/o to kindergarten. |
| WILLIAMSON | Middle Tennessee Guitar Alliance, Inc. | To provide four free concerts by world-renowned classical guitarists at Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music in 2019. |
| WILLIAMSON | Music City Pet Partners | To increase the number of volunteer therapy animal teams by 20 to handle the increased demand for therapy animal teams. |
| WILLIAMSON | Owl's Hill Nature Sanctuary | To provide an experiential, literature-based nature program for 360 low-income pre-school children (ages 3-5) enrolled in 15 Head Start classrooms. |
| WILLIAMSON | Retrieving Independence, Inc. | Goal to reach more recipients in need of a service dog by lowering their contribution from $9500 to $7000. |
| WILLIAMSON | Sweet Sleep, Inc. | To provide beds and bedding for up to 500 children coming out of homelessness in Middle Tennessee. |
| WILLIAMSON | Tennessee Youth Symphony | To provide approximately 150 students with sectional musical training based on their specific instruments and/or part in the musical selection. |
| WILLIAMSON | The Refuge Center for Counseling | To provide affordable counseling services to female victims of sexual abuse/trauma, including both Wounded Hearts groups and individual sessions. |
| WILLIAMSON | The Shower Truck/Shower Up | To provide mobile shower service and personal care this year to 5000 people experiencing homelessness in Nashville. |
| WILLIAMSON | Tucker's House | To assess and retrofit Middle Tennessee homes of children with disabilities, making them accessible, safe, and conducive to greatest independence. |
| WILLIAMSON | United Way of Williamson County | To help at risk students improve their reading and math skills. |
| WILLIAMSON | WAVES, Incorporated | To provide job skills training and job placement and community based learning to adults with disabilities in 12 Tennessee counties. |
| WILLIAMSON | Williamson Animal Services Inc. | To establish a community cat spay/neuter program in Williamson County to control the population of unwanted/homeless cats. |
| WILLIAMSON | Williamson County CASA, Inc. | To supply a therapeutic tool (informational coloring book) to children ages 4-12 entering the foster care system. |
| WILSON | Cedar Seniors, Inc. | Provide hot nutritional meals and fellowship for the elderly in our community and surrounding area. |
| WILSON | Cedarcroft Home, Inc. | Volunteer Therapy Program |
| WILSON | City of Mount Juliet Animal Shelter Volunteer Organization | To support the continuing demand for more humane education of all ages; provide animal therapy for seniors;more adoption events |
| WILSON | Community Homeless Outreach & Support/The Brooks House | BH provides preventive and corrective physical/dental/vision exams/medications for residents as intake processing and follow-up treatment in preparation for workforce entry. |
| WILSON | Cumberland University | To enhance understanding among graduating nursing students of community health needs through immersion in simulated urban and rural environments. |
| WILSON | Historic Lebanon Tomorrow Inc. | Using historic preservation to revitalize Lebanon's Public Square and surrounding neighborhoods. |
| WILSON | Lebanon Senior Citizens Center | To increase socialization, reduce unnoticed diseases due to starvation, meet the needs of a sub-set community. |
| WILSON | Mt. Juliet Senior Activity Center | To continue the Ballroom Dance Therapy Program that has meant so much to our participating seniors these past eight months. |
| WILSON | New Leash on Life | To provide spay/neuter & medical services for owned pets, feral cats and community cats that are in need |
| WILSON | Prospect Inc. | To provide funding for community outings for sixty individuals in our Adult Day Services program and accompanying staff |
| WILSON | Veteran's PATH Inc. | To provide physical activities, mindfulness and meditation tools, and safe community to 24 men veterans seeking alternate/supplementary paths of healing |
| 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 Civic League, Inc. | To provide a community based, inner-city,one-on-one, tutoring service to disadvantaged children in Wilson County. |
| 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 600+ first responders in Wilson County |
| WILSON | Wilson County Salvation Army | To provide after-school and summer meals to children in the neediest area of Wilson County. |
About The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee
The Community Foundation exists to promote and facilitate giving in the 40 counties of Middle Tennessee and beyond. It does this by accepting gifts of any size from anyone at any time and by empowering individuals, families, companies, nonprofits, and communities to respond to needs and opportunities that matter. The Community Foundation works with people who have great hearts, whether or not they have great wealth, to craft solutions that reflect their intentions and goals.
