The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee (CFMT), a charitable organization dedicated to enriching the quality of life in Middle Tennessee and beyond, announces $2,664,888 in grants to 439 local nonprofit organizations as part of the 2021 annual grantmaking process.
The grants will benefit nonprofits in 32 area counties: Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Coffee, Cumberland, Davidson, DeKalb, Dickson, Fentress, Franklin, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys, Jackson, Lincoln, Macon, Maury, Montgomery, Moore, Overton, Pickett, Putnam, Robertson, Rutherford, Smith, Stewart, Sumner, Trousdale, Warren, White, Williamson and Wilson counties.
The top awards categories were:
- Human Services (Children & Youth/Women & Men/Seniors/Emergency Needs) (24 percent of the grants);
- Arts and Humanities (17 percent);
- Education (15 percent);
- Animal Welfare (12 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 that 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.
For more information on the grant process visit www.cfmt.org/grants. And to learn about more than 1,900 of Middle Tennessee’s nonprofits and the wonderful work they do, go to the CFMT initiative GivingMatters.com.
2021 Discretionary Grants Recipients
| COUNTY | ORGANIZATION | BRIEF DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|---|
| Bedford | Community Clinic of Shelbyville and Bedford Co. Inc. | To provide financial support for 43 low-income and uninsured adults (Ages 18-59) from Bedford County. |
| Bedford | Community Development Center | To provide six lift chairs for seniors with physical needs through an equipment loan program, increasing independence and mobility. |
| Bedford | Governor's Early Literacy Foundation on behalf of Imagination Library of Bedford Co. | To provide one free age-appropriate book per month to children ages birth to five in Bedford County through Imagination Library. |
| Bedford | Middle Tennessee Spay and Neuter Clinic | To provide free spay and neuter surgeries for 350 feral and community cats in Middle Tennessee. |
| Bedford | Shelbyville-Bedford Co. Humane Association | To provide rehoming of 50 pets from low income, elderly, or disabled persons no longer able to keep their pets |
| Cannon | CASA of Cannon Co. | CASA will recruit and train volunteers to represent, advocate for, and promote the best interest of abused and neglected children. |
| Cannon | The Arts Center of Cannon Co. | To bring theatre class to Cannon County High School and the 6 elementary schools - there are currently no programs available.. |
| Cheatham | Pegram Fine Arts Elementary School | To provide enriching fine art experiences for elementary school students in a low funded school district. |
| Cheatham | Safe Haven Cheatham Co. | Provide abuse survivors confidence, training, financial skills, and clothing to be prepared to interview for jobs to lead to independence. |
| Cheatham | The Ark Community Resource Center | To enable seniors to age in place by providing five meals per week to 30+ homebound seniors. |
| Coffee | Bel-Aire Elementary School | Bel-Aire wishes to provide fifth graders with Junior Achievement’s free-enterprise educational program, culminating with participation in JA BizTown. |
| Coffee | CASA Works, Inc. | To train 5 volunteers using the revised National CASA approved curriculum to advocate for 20 youth. |
| Coffee | Coffee Co. Children's Advocacy Center | To provide trauma-focused therapy to children who have experienced severe abuse in Coffee County. |
| Coffee | Coffee Co. Humane Society | We want to assist low income families with vet care expense when pet has severe illness or injury. |
| Coffee | Coffee Co. School District Family Resource Center | The purpose shall be to supply and help with basic needs for the students in our school district |
| Coffee | Deerfield Elementary Backpack Program | To provide food ,coats, shoes, and school supplies for our Deerfield Students that are in need. |
| Coffee | East Middle School | East Middle School's purpose is to offer a program that will assist in meeting the needs of economically disadvantaged students. |
| Coffee | Haven of Hope, Inc | To provide enhanced domestic and sexual violence victim services in undeserved rural counties through case management, counseling, and emergency assistance. |
| Coffee | Imagination Library of Coffee Co. | To provide one high quality, age appropriate, Imagination Library book each month to 700 children birth-5 in Coffee County. |
| Coffee | Manchester City Schools | Manchester City Schools will offer 4th-8th grade students the opportunity to participate in archery education. |
| Coffee | Partners for Healing | To provide care coordination services to patients that will connect them with local services to help improve their overall health. |
| Coffee | Robert E Lee Elementary School | Allow students the opportunity to attend BizTown. |
| Coffee | Sportsmen and Professional Men of Coffee Co. Inc. | To provide basic services and items such as vision, dental, and healthcare, hygiene supplies, clothing, shoes and food for children. |
| Coffee | Tullahoma City Schools | To equip schools with water refill stations encouraging a healthy drink choice, reducing plastic waste and the spreading of germs |
| Coffee | Tullahoma Day Care Center | To ready TDCC children for success in school by providing assessment tools, supplementing curriculum, with listening technology and individual workbooks |
| Coffee | Tullahoma South Jackson Civic Center | 4 workshops provided for TEACH (Homeschool Program) as Arts Curriculum. 3 in-house with professionals, 1 at teaching theater in NYC. |
| Coffee | West Middle School | To provide economically disadvantage students with clothing and school supplies if they are unable to provide them for themselves. |
| Cumberland | Art Guild at Fairfield Glade | To provide art instruction classes to Cumberland County seniors at venues including Fair Park Senior Center and Art Circle Library. |
| Cumberland | Avalon Center | To provide 50 Welcome Home Baskets to residents of our shelter who are moving into their own permanent housing. |
| Cumberland | Cumberland Co. Imagination Library | To inspire a love of reading by gifting books free of charge to children from birth to age five. |
| Cumberland | Roane State Community College | Provide professional development training in STEM technologies to 32 middle school teachers to enhance technical skills and student engagement. |
| Cumberland | Stone Memorial High School FFA | To modify areas in our school's agricultural barn to make them usable for classroom instruction and training. |
| Cumberland | Wags and Whiskers Pet Rescue; Inc. | To provide financial assistance for spay/neuter of community dogs and cats. |
| Davidson | 100 Black Men of Middle Tennessee Inc. | 100 Black Men of Middle Tennessee, Inc. provides resources to further the academic and social development of black male students |
| Davidson | A Step Ahead Foundation of Middle Tennessee | To enhance the client experience for 300 women accessing free, long-acting reversible contraception. |
| Davidson | abrasiveMedia | Project Awake is a theatrical assembly program that helps students prevent bullying, sexual assault, violence, and self-harm in their schools. |
| Davidson | Actors Bridge Ensemble | To train 5 emerging theater directors of color in a 10-month professional training program that culminates in a public showcase. |
| Davidson | Advocates for Women's and Kids' Equality (AWAKE) Tennessee | To provide evidence-based education to at-risk youth and women on self-advocacy, leadership, and creating change in their own communities. |
| Davidson | AGAPE | To provide funds for emergency expenses for domestic violence victims |
| Davidson | Agape Animal Rescue | To prepare 80 abandoned dogs for adoption through the provision of vaccinations, preventative medications and spay/neuter surgery (if needed). |
| Davidson | AgeWell Middle TN | To provide trusted community resource information, personalized phone assistance and scam prevention shredding service for 5,700 older adults and caregivers. |
| Davidson | ALIAS Chamber Ensemble | To fund the ALIAS in the Community program (AIC), which presents classical music and educational programming to schools/community organizations. |
| Davidson | Alive Hospice | To highlight the importance of advance directives and provide a tool that increases comfort around end-of-life conversations. |
| Davidson | ALS Association Tennessee Chapter | The General Grant Program provides $500 grants to help defray the cost of eligible expenses associated with living with ALS. |
| Davidson | American Red Cross | To help at least 300 families in Middle Tennessee receive the help they need to recover from home fires. |
| Davidson | Amputee Blade Runners | To provide free sports prosthetics and support services to 12 amputees seeking to engage in an active lifestyle. |
| Davidson | AN Sports Club d/b/a Achilles International - Nashville | To cover the costs for five Achilles Athletes and their Volunteer guides to participate in local and out-of-town races |
| Davidson | Andrew Jackson Police Youth Camp | Provide 6 weeks free camp for at risk youth 8 - 12 years (summer) Shopping at Christmas for same. |
| 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 | Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville | To provide education programs that empower artists and creative organizations with entrepreneurial skills and resources to build thriving, sustainable businesses. |
| Davidson | Ascension Saint Thomas Health Foundation | To bring lifesaving screening mammography to 72 uninsured/underserved women in Bedford, Macon, and Davidson Counties through a mobile mammography outreach. |
| Davidson | Assistance League of Nashville | To provide new Standard School Attire to 3500 economically disadvantaged elementary students attending Metro Nashville Public Schools(MNPS). |
| Davidson | Autism Tennessee | This program will offer a single location for individuals with ASD to find PreEmployment, Autism-Ready Employers, and Independent Living Supports. |
| Davidson | Backfield in Motion | Continued support adding additional students, especially targeting female enrollment, serving at-risk students from some of the lowest performing MNPS schools. |
| Davidson | Bellevue Middle School Edible Learning Lab, Inc. | Our Hydroponics Healthy Harvest initiative seeks to equip middle-school students and families to build and maintain their own hydroponics systems. |
| Davidson | Belmont University | Watkins Community Education provides instruction in art and design disciplines to enhance participant understanding of human expression. |
| Davidson | Bethany Christian Services | Safe Families for Children provides temporary safe homes for children during times of crisis for vulnerable families. |
| Davidson | Bethlehem Centers of Nashville | To provide healthy produce to 40 Seniors participating in the Active Seniors Club as well as meals at session activities. |
| Davidson | Big Brothers Big Sisters of Middle Tennessee | Increasing access to and depth of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Middle Tennessee’s youth mentoring services. |
| Davidson | Blind and Charity Fund Downtown Nashville Lions Club | To provide new eyeglasses to those in financial need in Davidson County through a eyeglasses hotline and written application process. |
| Davidson | Book'em | At-risk elementary students will participate in book clubs to build literacy skills and home libraries |
| Davidson | Boys and Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee | To develop healthy attitudes and skills for adolescents (8-18) through Boys & Girls Clubs’ SMART Girls and Passport to Manhood. |
| Davidson | Bridges for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing | Support language (ASL and English) and social/emotional development in Deaf/HH children from birth through school age. |
| 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 | CASA Nashville | 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 | To assist seniors in living independently at home by providing case management, transportation, healthy food, and supplemental healthcare needs. |
| Davidson | Centennial Park Conservancy | To support over 150 free artist performances at Musicians Corner, an equitable, family-friendly concert series in Nashville’s historical Centennial Park. |
| Davidson | Centerstone | Expand existing therapeutic groups focused on suicide prevention to care for adults, adolescents and LGBTQI clients who experience suicidal ideation. |
| Davidson | Charis Ministries, Inc | To deliver 600 boxes of food provisions to households unable to buy food or access a food bank. |
| Davidson | Christian Cooperative Ministry | To provide healthy and nutritional food, water and hygiene products for an average of 325 homeless people per month. |
| Davidson | Christian Womens Job Corps Of Middle Tennessee dba Begin Anew | To provide healthy meals to 70 adult learners and children bi-weekly for 43 weeks and transition childcare to children's programming. |
| Davidson | Communities In Schools of Tennessee | Providing wrap-around or integrated students supports to ensure that students at-risk of failure can be successful in school |
| Davidson | Community Resource Center | To provide basic hygiene kits to 1000 families experiencing barriers to access |
| Davidson | Conexion Americas | To provide college access programming and case management for 195 immigrant and refugee high school students in Southeast Nashville. |
| Davidson | Corner to Corner | Script to Screen takes students through the process of making a movie - from writing their script to filming it! |
| Davidson | Country Music Foundation, Inc. | Words & Music is a curriculum-based lyric-writing program that creates opportunities for teachers and students to collaborate with Nashville songwriters. |
| Davidson | CreatiVets | To empower disabled veterans to heal through free community-based art and music programs, workshops, and classes. |
| Davidson | Crossroads Campus | To provide urgent veterinary care for dogs and cats in our shelter program. |
| Davidson | Cumberland Region Tomorrow | Facilitate conversations between residents and regional leaders on issues related to growth, development, and quality of life in the region. |
| Davidson | Cumberland River Compact | To support food security through the planting of 72 trees with certified River Friendly Farms, and host educational community events |
| Davidson | Day 7 Inc | To provide affordable self-care and mental health resources (a customized self-care plan) to 20 nonprofit staff for 3-6 months time. |
| Davidson | Dismas House of Nashville | Provide Welcome Backpacks and meals for 150 new residents upon arrival which contain an initial supply of clothing and toiletries. |
| Davidson | Diverse Learners Cooperative | Intensives equip teachers with best practices and a strong professional network in order to better serve their diverse learners. |
| Davidson | East Nashville Hope Exchange, Inc. | To strengthen the literacy of at-risk children in East Nashville and beyond (Davidson County). |
| Davidson | Eating Disorders Coalition of Tennessee (DBA "Renewed") | To continue to provide life-changing programs and support groups for those who are impacted by eating disorders in our community. |
| Davidson | Edgehill Neighborhood Partnership | To provide leadership development and job skills training for 20 adolescent girls in the Edgehill community. |
| Davidson | Education Equal Opportunity Group | Assist 250 at-risk teenagers in breaking the cycle of poverty by exposing them to new career possibilities at local colleges. |
| Davidson | Elmahaba Center | To fund and empower bilingual translators to support our community programming (i.e. livestreams, legal clinics, pop-up clinics) in South Nashville. |
| Davidson | End Slavery Tennessee | To provide holistic, long-term, trauma-informed, comprehensive aftercare to trafficking victims, aiding them in healing and transforming into survivors. |
| Davidson | Faith Family Medical Center | To address health disparities facing low-income people of color, by providing medical and wellness services for 1,300 patients. |
| Davidson | Family & 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 Reconciliation Center, Inc. | Expand awareness of FRC as a resource for visitation to incarcerated prisoners, increase the number and diversity of clients served. |
| Davidson | Fannie Battle Day Home | To provide family empowerment and case management services to 27 low-income families enrolled at Fannie Battle Day Home |
| Davidson | First Steps | Provide high-quality, professional language interpretation services to 70+ families in the First Steps Community Outreach Program in the 2021-22 year. |
| Davidson | Foundation for Tennessee Chess | To fund the cost for Chess for Children classes at Glencliff Elementary School for two semesters. |
| Davidson | Friends Life Community | Studio Zoom for 30 individuals a subprogram of Advocacy Through the Arts: Empowering individuals with disabilities to tell their story. |
| Davidson | Friends of Metro Dance | To provide a free, accessible movement class for people with Parkinson's to enhance mobility and strengthen social connections. |
| Davidson | Friends of Shelby Park and Bottoms | To build a volunteer program that improves the park and connects community members with each other and the park. |
| Davidson | Frist Art Museum | Frist Art Museum will offer teen programs to Middle Tennessee youth that nurture creativity, develop leadership skills, and promote community. |
| Davidson | From Your Father Inc. | To deliver 100 resource boxes to the doorsteps of fatherless children who are innocent victims of poverty. |
| Davidson | Galaxy Star Drug Awareness/Nashville Peacemakers | To provide trauma release activities and academic technology training for 10 girls & 10 boys in the NPM youth programs. |
| Davidson | Gilda's Club Middle Tennessee | To provide free mental health support and counseling for those impacted by cancer in Middle Tennessee. |
| Davidson | Girls on the Run Middle TN | Girls on the Run strengthens the social-emotional development of girls while engaging in physical exercise, character, and confidence building. |
| Davidson | Girls Write Nashville | Girls Write Nashville Writers Guilds empower teen artists through curriculum-based songwriting, production, mentorship and longterm positive community building. |
| Davidson | Global Education Center | To support educational dance conference exploring the history and aesthetics of Black Dance in America, from Africa to The Americas |
| Davidson | GOAL Collective | Improve adult education in Davidson County through collective work of 14 agencies, prioritizing learner engagement and internal & external communications. |
| Davidson | Goodwill Industries of Middle Tennessee, Inc, | To provide Goodwill Retail employees vocational assessments, leadership and financial skills training to improve their opportunities for career advancement. |
| Davidson | Guardianship And Trusts | Our program provides court ordered guardianship services for indigent, abused, neglected and exploited seniors in the Nashville area. |
| 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 | Hands On Nashville will train at least 30 disaster response volunteer leaders to assist in engaging service participants after disasters. |
| Davidson | Healing Arts Project Inc - HAPI | To provide free art classes and exhibits to participating artists recovering from a mental illness or substance use disorder. |
| Davidson | HEAR Nashville | Provide hearing aids for ten low income adults and seniors in middle Tennessee |
| Davidson | Homework Hotline | Funding will provide 790+ free, one-on-one tutoring sessions to students/parents from Middle TN counties supported by Community Foundation. |
| Davidson | Hope Clinic for Women | Provide well-women, STD testing/Pap exams, birth control for 470 low-income, uninsured women who would otherwise not have access to care. |
| Davidson | Hope for Justice | Our specialist investigators work closely with law enforcement to achieve the vision of a Tennessee free from human trafficking. |
| Davidson | HopeKids Middle Tennessee | To provide back-to-school backpacks and supplies for 100 children who are impacted by cancer or other life-threatening medical conditions. |
| Davidson | Horizons at USN | To provide 130 students caught in the achievement gap the tools and support to become successful and confident college-bound students. |
| Davidson | Humanities Tennessee | To provide books, discussion guides, and author appearances with book signing opportunities at Title 1 schools in Middle TN. |
| Davidson | Insight Counseling Centers | Provide seven free mental health webinars for the public on depression, anxiety, grief, addiction, aging issues, and Adverse Childhood Experiences. |
| Davidson | Inspiritus, Inc. | To provide access to art therapy that promotes social-emotional learning and healthy coping skills for 150 children in distressed communities. |
| Davidson | International Outreach Ministries, Inc. | To provide food, clothing, and educational programs for at-risk Nashvillians and at-risk international partners. |
| Davidson | Intersection | To support the Lullaby Project, pairing 20 new or expecting mothers with professional artists to create their own personal lullabies. |
| Davidson | Jazz Empowers | To support the jazz programs at 5 underserved schools in Middle Tennessee by bringing in additional teaching artists. |
| Davidson | JDRF Tennessee | To support JDRF's Bag of Hope Program, which provides resources to children and families newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. |
| Davidson | Jewish Family Service of Nashville and Middle TN | Operating support for conducting adoption home studies, assisting with child placement and conducting post-placement supervision visits for the LGBTQ+ community |
| Davidson | Jordan Thomas Foundation Inc. | Providing support for children living with limb differences including access to prostheses, social/emotional support and mentorship opportunities. |
| Davidson | Junior Achievement of Middle Tennessee | To prepare and inspire1,060 Title I, 5th grade students with the skills and confidence to lead healthy, financial lives. |
| Davidson | Justice Industries | To create a matching savings account incentive program for our employees to build a personal emergency fund. |
| Davidson | Kings Daughters Child Development Center | To cultivate developmentally appropriate skills within 100 children (age 2 months to 5 years) of diverse socio-economic backgrounds. |
| Davidson | Learning Matters, Inc. | To provide 2600 hours interventional tutoring to under-resourced students with learning disabilities, predominantly Dyslexia. |
| Davidson | Les Dames D'Escoffier Nashville | A series of three educational presentations and dialogues to help increase diversity, inclusion and equity to the Nashville hospitality industry. |
| Davidson | Love Helps, inc. | To impact 3,000-plus Nashville School children through a school-based program to help establish foundational elements for success--positive character, education, literacy. |
| Davidson | Luke 14:12 | To provide 10,500 free, hot, nutritional, dinner-style meals to Nashville’s hungry, homeless and working poor. |
| Davidson | Make Music Nashville | To provide musical activities and education for children and their families in the Nashville area through unique interactive performances. |
| Davidson | MDHA Housing Trust Corporation | To empower 20 entry-level maintenance technicians with a high-demand skilled trade through on-the-job and classroom training for potential advancement. |
| Davidson | Medical Foundation of Nashville | to expand language access through translated materials for charity care patients and direct assistance with prescriptions and medical equipment |
| Davidson | Meharry Medical College | To provide free high-quality medical and dental care to economically disadvantaged individuals and train the next generation of healthcare providers.. |
| Davidson | Mending Hearts, Inc. | Provide individual/group therapy to facilitate relapse management and coping strategies for 200 women in recovery in Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP). |
| Davidson | Mental Health America of the MidSouth | To support expanded staff capacity and case management for vulnerable youth affected by human trafficking in MHA’s Multi-Cultural Outreach Program. |
| 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 | AniMeals provides pet food to the pets of homebound senior citizens to offset the costs of pet ownership. |
| Davidson | Middle Tennessee Council, Boy Scouts of America | Provide at-risk, inner-city youth with access to life-changing Scouting programs that build self-confidence and leadership skills. |
| Davidson | Middle Tennessee Guitar Alliance | To present four free concerts by world-renowned classical guitarists in 2022. |
| Davidson | Monroe Harding, Inc | To support 12 young adults earning high school diploma or equivalent, or other defined progress in preparation toward job/career plan. |
| Davidson | Mother to Mother | To provide essential health and safety items to low income babies and children in rural areas of Middle Tennessee. |
| Davidson | Moves & Grooves | To support youth in our programming to build focus, foster character and leadership, and gain the confidence. |
| Davidson | Music for Seniors | Deliver 120 on-location live music Outreach programs with senior groups comprised primarily of individuals at high risk for social isolation. |
| Davidson | Musicians On Call | Increase the accessibility of live-music programs across 8 Middle Tennessee hospitals and deliver positive interpersonal experiences to 7,000 hospitalized individuals. |
| Davidson | Nashville Adult Literacy Council | To teach reading, writing, and English-speaking skills to adults in Nashville. |
| Davidson | Nashville Ballet | To provide anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion training to Nashville Ballet’s administrative staff, dancers, and board of directors. |
| Davidson | Nashville Cat Rescue | To spay or neuter 1,200 cats so that they may be put up for adoption. |
| Davidson | Nashville Children's Alliance Inc. | To reduce the trauma of child abuse by facilitating a multidisciplinary team to detect, investigate, prosecute and treat child abuse. |
| Davidson | Nashville Civic Design Center | To increase public health, connectivity and safety through community engagement, education and activation in creating successful public spaces throughout Nashville. |
| Davidson | Nashville Coaching Coalition | The Coaches' Leadership Academy equips coaches and educators to be better mentors/leaders and improve the mental/emotional health of kids. |
| Davidson | Nashville Conflict Resolution Center | To support free, restorative, and trauma-informed mediation services to stabilize Middle Tennesseans by preventing eviction and insolvency. |
| Davidson | Nashville Diaper Connection | The "No Child Wet Behind" program provides baby diapers to moms that otherwise might not have them. |
| Davidson | Nashville Film Festival | To pair 15 underserved young women with entertainment professionals to write, record, and film an original song and music video. |
| Davidson | Nashville General Hospital Foundation | To provide comprehensive, easy-to-understand, diabetic education to Nashville General Hospital patients who are at high risk for diabetic related complications.. |
| Davidson | Nashville Humane Association | We want to meet a community need that includes access to basic veterinary care. (Vaccines, Rabies, Microchips) |
| Davidson | Nashville In Harmony | Funds support building community and promoting social change through music for our LGBTQ+ youth chorus, Major Minors. |
| Davidson | Nashville Jazz Workshop | Jazz AM will provide 11 immersive and interactive jazz performances free of charge for families with children ages 2-10. |
| Davidson | Nashville Launch Pad | We provide LGBTQ-affirming emergency shelter for young adults experiencing homelessness. |
| Davidson | Nashville Opera Association | To support a continuing partnership between Nashville Opera and Tennessee State University that expands career pathways for Black artists |
| Davidson | Nashville Public Education Foundation | NPEF will fund College Access Champions Fellowship for teachers to serve as college access advocates within their spheres of influence. |
| Davidson | Nashville Public Library Foundation | Nashville Public Library’s STUDIO NPL is a workforce development program for teens emphasizing hands-on, STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, math). |
| Davidson | Nashville Public Radio | To launch a vital daily independent local news program reflecting the voices of all across Middle Tennessee. |
| Davidson | Nashville Public Television | "Aging Matters" will focus on the major issues facing older adults with two documentaries: "LGBTQI Aging” and “Women and Aging." |
| Davidson | Nashville Repertory Theatre, Inc | Provide professional theatre arts education for youth ages 7-23 through youth impact programs in schools and throughout the community. |
| Davidson | Nashville Shakespeare Festival | Provide affordable or free public and school performances of RICHARD III, with preparatory in-school student workshops, and free on-line guidebook. |
| Davidson | Nashville Steam Preservation Society | Preservation and rehabilitation of NC&StL steam locomotive No. 576's frame by media blasting and repainting. |
| Davidson | Nashville Symphony Association | To provide free, high-quality instrument instruction and music education experiences to 7,000 students in Nashville. |
| Davidson | Nashville Teacher Residency | To provide high quality coursework on culturally sustaining methods of instruction for diverse individuals who will become licensed teachers |
| Davidson | Nashville Tools for Schools | To provide custom-made classroom furnishings at a deep discount to retail price for MNPS schools |
| Davidson | Nashville Tree Foundation | North Nashville Community Engagement and Tree Maintenance Fellowship and Internship Program |
| Davidson | National Museum of African American Music | To connect up to 1,500 Nashville youth and ~350 seniors with professional musician teaching artists to learn, perform, and engage. |
| Davidson | Nations Ministry Center | To provide citizenship support services for 100 immigrants applying for US citizenship. |
| Davidson | Native American Indian Association of Tennessee | To provide emergency housing, utility, food, and health care assistance to impoverished Native American citizens of Tennessee. |
| Davidson | NeedLink Nashville | To provide emergency financial assistance for low-income single-parent households with young children, preventing eviction and homelessness. |
| Davidson | Neighbor 2 Neighbor | To provide neighborhood leadership development training for 1,000 residents across Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County |
| Davidson | Neighborhood Health | To create a food pharmacy at our Downtown clinic, to provide portable, shelf-stable and nutritious food to persons experiencing homelessness. |
| Davidson | New Horizons Corporation | Educational equipment for clients with intellectual and physical disabilities to use as a learning tool in New Horizons Day Center. |
| Davidson | New Level CDC | To provide housing counseling to more than 200 families seeking to find stable homes and homeownership 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 | Nurture the Next | Evidence based home visiting and best practice parent coaching to vulnerable Davidson County families. |
| Davidson | Oasis Center, Inc. | To provide a spectrum of in-person and virtual programming, including clinical mental health services, for LGBTQ+ youth |
| Davidson | Old School Farm | To employ adults with disabilities in a supportive environment and provide families in need with nutritious, farm-fresh produce. |
| Davidson | Open Table Nashville | To provide outreach services and supplies to approximately 4,500 people experiencing homelessness |
| 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 | Our Place Nashville | To recruit 40 older adults to live as companions with our residents with developmental disabilities in eight new Friendship Houses. |
| Davidson | OZ Arts | To engage diverse Nashville artists in creating adventurous contemporary performances, premiered in a 2-week festival attended by 1,000 patrons. |
| Davidson | Palmer Home Family Care | To provide personal and baby essentials for 20 mothers reentering the community after prison release and/or reunifying with their child. |
| Davidson | Park Center, Inc. | Provide bi-weekly art therapy sessions for 30 persons to move forward from mental illness, trauma, homelessness, and/or addiction. |
| Davidson | Pass The Beauty | To provide needed services and support for 50 women who have experienced domestic abuse, violence, poverty, and lack positive resources. |
| Davidson | PENCIL | To use PENCIL Connect to provide engaging career exploration and student-adult mentorship opportunities to MNPS high school youth. |
| Davidson | People Loving Nashville | Providing life-saving medicine to prevent drug overdose within Davidson Country's most vulnerable, unhoused community. |
| Davidson | Pet Community Center | The Community Cat Program will trap-neuter-return (TNR) 2,000 community cats in Davidson County. |
| Davidson | Priest Lake Community Baptist Church | To provide life skills recreation for community children ages 3 to 12 in a small safe environment during the summer. |
| Davidson | Project Return, Inc. | To support the successful new beginnings of people returning from incarceration by providing employment opportunities and wraparound services. |
| Davidson | Project Transformation Tennessee | To provide an eight-week summer literacy program for more than 200 children in under-resourced neighborhoods across Middle Tennessee. |
| Davidson | Proverbs 12:10 Animal Rescue | To provide medication and vaccines for rescued dogs and cats prior to adoption. |
| Davidson | Rebuilding Together Nashville | To support home repairs and wraparound services for low-income homeowners in the Bordeaux area of Nashville. |
| Davidson | Rejoice School of Ballet | 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 gender-specific intensive outpatient addiction treatment for 60 women of low income, including specialized pregnant and postpartum women's programming. |
| Davidson | Restore Small Groups | To improve community health by providing high-quality, low-cost, peer to peer support groups focused on holistic well-being for 50 people. |
| Davidson | Rocketown of Middle Tennessee, Inc. | To provide mentoring to marginalized teens from low-income communities, helping them to find peace/purpose away from the influence of gangs/drugs. |
| Davidson | Safe Haven Family Shelter | To provide academic and social-emotional supports to children experiencing homelessness, reducing the negative impact of housing instability. |
| Davidson | Salama Urban Ministries | To improve each child's life trajectory through academic enrichment, the performing arts, and character development. |
| Davidson | Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee | To provide equitable access to nutritious food for food-insecure children. |
| Davidson | Senior Ride Nashville | To provide 2,800 trips via contract drivers for non-driving seniors, ensuring access to 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 250 mobile showers and loads of laundry to individuals living on the streets/in encampments throughout Davidson County. |
| Davidson | Siloam Health | To provide 83 culturally-sensitive, affordable, medical visits to refugees in Middle Tennessee who have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. |
| Davidson | Small World Yoga | Small World Yoga will bring trauma-informed yoga and mindfulness to populations who are disadvantaged and systematically oppressed in Middle Tennessee. |
| Davidson | Society of St. Andrew | To glean excess good food and share it with hungry Tennessee neighbors |
| Davidson | Soles4Souls | To provide a new pair of athletic shoes to 500 children experiencing homelessness in Middle TN. |
| Davidson | Southeast Community Capital dba Pathway Lending | Provide classes to 400+ entrepreneurs to help strengthen and expand businesses, 24 businesses will receive access to capital. |
| Davidson | Southern Alliance for People and Animal Welfare | To provide life saving spay/neuter, vaccinations, deworming & other wellness services to pet owners struggling with poverty, housed or homeless. |
| Davidson | Southern Word Inc. | Reach 860 youth participants out of school through virtual and in-person writing and music workshops. |
| Davidson | Special Olympics Tennessee | Young Athletes is an early childhood program for children with and without intellectual disabilities, ages 2 to 7 years old. |
| Davidson | St. Luke's Community House | To deliver 18,000 healthy meals to 80 seniors living in our community over a 12 month period. |
| Davidson | Starlings Nashville | The guiding concept of providing leadership opportunities for girls ages 10-18 regardless of their socioeconomic background. |
| Davidson | STEM Preparatory Academy | Our mental health counseling program is designed to raise student achievement by addressing mental health barriers to learning and development. |
| Davidson | Street Theatre Company | To provide free or low-cost youth theatre programming to the underserved through our Class Act Dramatics Program. |
| Davidson | Strick's Gift | To efficiently provide infant clothing to 600 babies born into poverty in Nashville in partnership with local hospital social workers. |
| Davidson | Stronger Than My Father, Inc. | Provide supplemental reading instruction to help restore lost skills during virtual learning for 100 children enrolled in our afterschool program. |
| Davidson | Survivor Fitness Foundation | Provide 175 rehabilitation sessions to low-income and minority cancer survivors, addressing adverse side effects of their cancer diagnosis and treatments. |
| Davidson | Teach for America | To deliver a summer educational experience that provides quality educational learning hours for both MNPS students and TFA corps members. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation | Our project will target arts teachers in rural areas that lack resources and awareness of TAA’s continuing education programs. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Breast Cancer Coalition | Our program provides individual financial relief to breast cancer patients struggling with medical debt in the state of Tennessee. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence | Funds will assist with providing legal services/referrals to wrap around services for 15 immigrant sexual assault and trafficking survivors. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Craft | Provide free handcrafted arts activities serving over 2,000 children/families at our spring and fall Tennessee Craft Fairs' Kids' Tent, Nashville. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Educators of Color Alliance | To provide leadership development for 18 teachers (9 Middle TN) from diverse backgrounds to address systemic inequities impacting vulnerable students. |
| 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 Foreign Language Institute Fund, Inc. | To provide free English Language Training to Tennessee's immigrant and refugee community through the ESL to Go program. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Higher Education Initiative | Serving our community through student success and re-entry services for currently and formerly incarcerated individuals. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Historical Society | Tennessee History Day provides the opportunity for students and educators to participate in project-based learning in the humanities. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition | TIRRC’s citizenship program provides affordable assistance to eligible low-income immigrants with completing their naturalization applications to become U.S. citizens |
| Davidson | Tennessee Innocence Project | To support wrongful conviction litigation for indigent Middle Tennesseans – ensuring justice for all means all. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Justice for Our neighbors | TNJFON provides humanitarian immigration legal services to survivors of violence, persecution, and poverty and informs the public about immigration matters. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Kidney Foundation | To provide transportation to lifesaving dialysis treatments for 11 low-income, older adults with no other means to access medical care. |
| 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. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Poison Center | To educate parents and healthcare professionals about self-medicating practices in children and adolescents to prevent medication errors and poisonings. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Voices for Victims | To distribute 29 copies of "Acquaintance Rape: The Untold Truth" to Middle Tennessee middle and high schools. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Youth Courts, Inc. | To provide training, technical assistance to MNPS as they implement youth court programs in middle and high schools this year. |
| Davidson | The Branch of Nashville | The Branch helps culturally diverse, under-resourced families work toward self-sufficiency through food support so everyone can thrive. |
| Davidson | The Bridge Ministry, Inc | To bridge the gap & meet the need of the homeless, under-resourced individuals, families and students experiencing food insecurity issues. |
| Davidson | The Build Up Foundation | Provide Free tutoring/ACT Prep for Metro Nashville students who have fell behind due to Covid19/virtual learning in at risk communities |
| Davidson | The Contributor, Inc. | Support success of homeless clients in our C.O.V.E.R. housing program through acquiring a SOAR and Certified Peer Recovery Specialist. |
| Davidson | The Educators' Cooperative | Provide Professional Development for K-12 teachers on Antiracist Teaching, Learning and Leading practices for implementation in virtual and in-person classrooms. |
| Davidson | The F.I.N.D. Design | To build leaders that will inspire systematic change for 75 girls of color through healing circles, mentoring, engagement, and education. |
| Davidson | The Family Center, Inc. | Provide “Resources for Success” to encourage healthy parent/child interaction for 339 families, including books/games, translation/translator services and parent leadership opportunities. |
| Davidson | The Healing NET Foundation | Distribute 1,000 resource packets containing Healing NET’s neuroendocrine cancer (NET) specific publications to partner organizations; healthcare providers; patients and caregivers |
| Davidson | The HELP Center | To provide financial assistance to low-to-moderate families in need of emergency financial assistance. |
| Davidson | The Nashville Food Project, Inc. | Through our Meals program, TNFP prepares and shares from-scratch, nutritious meals to share with our children and youth-serving community partners. |
| Davidson | The New Beginnings Center | Provide free and affordable personal training, nutritional education, and wellness tools to women with lower income levels across Davidson County. |
| Davidson | The Next Door | To provide medication-assisted treatment (MAT) services for 60 women with opioid and alcohol use disorders. |
| Davidson | The Onsite Foundation | A virtual training and support group for Black mental health professionals. |
| Davidson | The Porch Writers' Collective | "Immigrants Write" amplifies the literary voices of immigrants and refugees in Middle Tennessee by offering supportive/inclusive creative writing workshops. |
| Davidson | The Theater Bug | To engage 25 students in an original theater production addressing drug use, racism, and grief through the high school lens. |
| Davidson | Thistle Farms | To provide housing, healthcare, and job training to women survivors of trafficking, prostitution, and addiction. |
| Davidson | TN State Parks Conservancy | To provide unique, immersive experiences in nature and increase literacy opportunities for for inner-city and rural youth living in poverty. |
| Davidson | Travellers Rest Historic House Museum | Commissioning a Ground Penetrating Radar survey and accompanying report on the historic landscape, which is essential for long term planning. |
| Davidson | Turnip Green Creative Reuse | To divert 500,000 lbs of materials from Nashville’s landfill and redirect them to 20,000 reusers. |
| 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 | UpRise Nashville | Post-graduation coaching for education and career development for UpRise Graduates who have launched careers and are emerging from financial poverty. |
| Davidson | Urban Green Lab | To grow a culture of environmental justice learning in Nashville so all of us can thrive. |
| Davidson | Vanderbilt University | Telling the Story of Nashville's Fort Negley through Storymaps |
| Davidson | W.O. Smith/Nashville Community Music School | To provide a residential summer music camp for 60 W.O. Smith students. |
| Davidson | Walden's Puddle | To provide care/treatment to Tennessee wildlife in need, with the goal of returning the rehabilitated animals back to the wild. |
| Davidson | Walk/Bike Nashville Inc | Our Ambassador program will identify, train and support residents along Murfreesboro to advocate for better transportation for their community. |
| Davidson | Water Walkers | To provide a life-changing 12-month Leadership Training program for Edgehill neighborhood teens using work experiences and life skills workshops. |
| Davidson | Wayne Reed Christian Childcare Center | To cover the costs of toys and other learning materials to be used on our playground. |
| Davidson | Welcome Home Ministries | To provide supported employment services for 110 clients seeking recovery in Welcome Home Ministries’ alcohol and drug recovery support program. |
| Davidson | Westminster Home Connection | To develop a group to do neighbor-helping-neighbor construction work for older adults to age-in-place. |
| Davidson | YMCA of Middle Tennessee | To purchase and implement a national, data-driven curriculum to promote the social-emotional learning of youth in YMCA elementary school programs. |
| Davidson | You Have The Power...Know How to Use It, Inc. | To provide victim impact education to incarcerated women or transitioning from incarceration. |
| Davidson | Young Leaders Council, Inc. | To replenish the Nashville volunteer leadership base and facilitate board training for young professionals seeking to make a lasting impact. |
| Davidson | Youth Empowerment through Arts and Humanities | To provide enriching experiences that help 525 youth build character and self-esteem through rigorous music education and frank conversation |
| Davidson | Youth Villages | To provide critical needs and services for 20-25 youth aging out of foster care participating in Youth Villages’ LifeSet program. |
| Davidson | YWCA Nashville & Middle Tennessee | To provide emergency shelter and wrap-around supportive services to over 200 victims of domestic violence and 150 children. |
| DeKalb | Cannon Co. Community For Animals | To provide low cost spay and neuter to stray and neglected cats and dogs in Cannon County. |
| DeKalb | DeKalb Co. Board of Education-Coordinated School Health | To provide nonperishable food items on weekends and holiday breaks to approximately 200 DeKalb County students. |
| DeKalb | Tennessee Tech University Appalachian Center for Craft | To enable high school art educators to teach fine craft activities in their own classrooms and provide applicable resources. |
| Dickson | CareNet Pregnancy Medical Center | The purpose is to provide pregnancy education to clients and to communicate vital information to clients via cell phones. |
| Dickson | CASA of Dickson Co. | To provide library and equipment for required continuing education of Advocates and reimburrment for visiting children out of county. |
| Dickson | Centennial Elementary School | To incentivize attendance and positive behavior amongst students, as well as, provide opportunities to boost teacher morale. |
| 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 Police Department | Unifying Law Enforcement and our community in light of the racial, political and cultural divides that are prevalent and detrimental. |
| Dickson | Clement Railroad Hotel Museum | Expand educational resources for Dickson county and update the information around the museum on historically marginalized groups. |
| Dickson | Creek Wood High School | To provide training and experiences for students both girls and boys for tomorrow's workforce in and around our community. |
| Dickson | Creek Wood Wrestling | Our program is a non revenue sport with little help. We need a new wrestling mat. |
| Dickson | Dickson Co. Sheriff's Offfice | Host Junior Sheriff's Academy for 20 middle-school students focusing on educating and encouraging strong relationships between youth and law enforcement. |
| Dickson | Dickson Community Clinic | Dickson Community Clinic provides primary care, laboratory, imaging studies and referrals services for the uninsured of Dickson and surrounding counties. |
| Dickson | Drug Free Dickson Coalition | To reduce alcohol, tobacco and other drug use in Dickson County, especially among Dickson County youth. |
| Dickson | Humane Society of Dickson Co. | The Humane Society of Dickson County will continue to provide healthcare, spay/neuter for abandoned, lost, abused animals in Dickson County. |
| Dickson | Promise Land Heritage Association | To present nationally recognized music artist in performance at the 2022 PLHA Music and Arts Festival.in order to boost attendance. |
| Dickson | Stuart Burns Elementary School | To provide 20 students in an inclusion kindergarten classroom with a Promethean InterACTIV Panel to increase literacy and math skills. |
| Dickson | The Quest Center for Art & Community Development, Inc. | Provide affordable, year-round music education & youth development programs for over 1,100 children and teens living in rural, lower-income communities. |
| Fentress | Best Friends Sanctuary, Inc. | To provide low income citizens of our county reduced cost spay neuter services in Fentress County. |
| Franklin | Franklin Co. Humane Society, dba Animal Harbor | To provide routine and specialty medical care (as needed) to 300 abandoned companion animals and place them in new homes. |
| Franklin | Franklin Co. School District | To create a collection of musical instruments which will be included in and described as a "Musical Petting Zoo." |
| Franklin | Good Samaritan Ministries of Franklin Co., Inc. | Our primary mission is to provide food boxes for the disadvantaged individuals and families living in Franklin County. |
| Franklin | Ziggy's Tree Wildlife Rehabilitation Center | To provide care for Tennessee's orphaned, injured or displaced wildlife with the goal of returning them to their natural habitats. |
| Hickman | Hickman Humane Society Inc | To provide spay/neuter services for dogs and cats owned by citizens of Hickman County with limited financial means. |
| Houston | Bethesda Community Mission, Inc. | We will assist approximately 245 households twice a year with $175.00 when the need arises, while funds are available. |
| Houston | City of Tennessee Ridge Fire Department | To purchase two sets of turnout gear (personal protective equipment) for volunteer firefighters serving our City. |
| Humphreys | Humphreys Co. Humane Society | Provide no cost spay or neuter and rabies vaccinations for senior citizens and low income residents for their owned pets. |
| Jackson | Granville Museum-Historic Granville | To promote local musicians, artists/craftsmen, and aging citizens in sharing stories showcasing their talents to enhance community unity. |
| Lincoln | Humane Society of Lincoln Co. | Spay/Neuter to reduce the unwanted pet population in Lincoln county. |
| Lincoln | Junior's House, Inc. | To provide child abuse prevention education to over 1000 children in K-5th grades. |
| Lincoln | Southern Alliance for Animal Welfare/Lincoln Co. | To provide spay/neuter surgeries to dogs and cats belonging to low income families in Middle Tennessee |
| Macon | Macon Spay Neuter Assistance | To provide a spay neuter program for pets in Macon County which will decrease pet homelessness. |
| Maury | 431 Ministries | To help shoulder the burdens of single mothers so that the generational cycle of single motherhood can be broken. |
| Maury | Boys & Girls Clubs of South Central Tennessee | Provide tutoring by certified teachers and intensive academic mentoring to 100 high drop-out risk youth to ensure high school graduation. |
| Maury | Center of Hope | To provide therapeutic counseling to victims of domestic violence and/or sexual assault to heal from trauma |
| Maury | Maury Co. Senior Citizens, Inc. | To address physical fitness and socialization needs of older adults in Maury County |
| 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 | Watershed Public Theatre | Producing a stage adaptation of the classic Jane Austen novel Pride & Prejudice as part of the "Summer Classics" series. |
| Montgomery | Big Brothers Big Sisters of Clarksville | To provide opportunities for family and child engagement as well as recruitment through Big Brothers Big Sisters Agency sponsored events. |
| Montgomery | Gateway Chamber Orchestra | To stage a performance of Osvaldo Golijov's composition La Pasión según San Marcos for chamber orchestra, chorus, and soloists. |
| Montgomery | Imagination Library of Montgomery Co. | To mail one high-quality, age-appropriate book monthly to the homes of children enrolled, birth to age 5 |
| Montgomery | Loaves and Fishes | To provide food and equipment for a new warehouse distribution program to help the food insecure in our community. |
| Montgomery | Manna Cafe Ministries | To provide basic needs of hot showers, hygiene items, clothing, and refreshments to roughly 1,000 impoverished and homeless community members. |
| Montgomery | Roxy Productions, Inc. | To support artistic salaries for the musical SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK LIVE! at the Roxy Regional Theatre in January/February 2022. |
| Montgomery | YAIPak Outreach | Identify, support and assist homeless veterans to pursue and sustain permanent housing. |
| Moore | Moore Co. Friends of Animals | To promote our spay and neuter program to the residents of Moore County, Tennessee through direct mailing. |
| Moore | Motlow College Foundation | To provide textbook reserves available for check-out in campus libraries for underprivileged students who cannot afford the cost of textbooks. |
| Overton | Spay/Neuter Incentive Program - Overton Co. | SNIP-OC is strictly for spay/neuter of companion pets of Overton Co. |
| Pickett | PAWS of Dale Hollow | To provide spay/neuter financial assistance and to provide continuing funding for the feral cat trap, neuter and release program. |
| Putnam | Cookeville Regional Medical Center Foundation | To provide appropriate screening services to low-income, under-served Upper Cumberland residents with risk factors for cancer development. |
| Putnam | Helping Hands of Putnam Co. | Provide rental assistance to families who are experiencing emergencies. |
| Putnam | Humane Society of Putnam Co. Inc. | To provide spay/neuter assistance for 1,500 animals (150 with this request) to end euthanasia as a means of population control. |
| Putnam | Tennessee FFA Foundation, Inc. | In the Tennessee FFA Agriscience Fair, students use scientific principles and emerging technologies to solve complex problems related to agriculture. |
| Putnam | Upper Cumberland Broadcasting Council | To provide interactive, educational programming and print materials for children and parents in rural communities. |
| Putnam | Upper Cumberland Habitat for Humanity | To provide weatherization, minor home repairs, and accessibility improvements for seniors living in Putnam County. |
| Robertson | The Master's Table Soup Kitchen/GFCAC | To sustain and expand the feeding capacity of the Master's Table Soup Kitchen in Springfield, Tennessee. |
| Rutherford | Amelia's Closet | To provide meaningful job training & placement for 40 adults experiencing employment obstacles by developing their potential and God-given gifts. |
| Rutherford | Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford Foundation | To financially enable cancer patients the opportunity to participate in a 12-week Cancer Wellness Program from diagnosis through survivorship. |
| Rutherford | Boys & Girls Clubs of Rutherford Co. | We will provide 400 Club members the Youth for Unity program which will provide activities and events for all. |
| Rutherford | Carpe Artista, Inc. | To give 40 diverse and at risk students a positive, professional, musical theatre camp experience. |
| Rutherford | CASA of Rutherford Co. | To recruit, train, and administratively support volunteers in Juvenile Court who advocate for children who have experienced abuse or neglect. |
| Rutherford | Children's Museum Corporation of Rutherford Co. dba Discovery Center | To provide a 3-month Artist-in-Residence program and corresponding public programming including an Arts in April free community event. |
| Rutherford | Community Helpers, Inc. (The) | to provide 1000 RC low-income households emergency assistance for rent, electric & medicine during financial crisis. |
| Rutherford | Dancing Through the Curriculum | To provide dance training and free academic support to 100+ girls residing in Rutherford County's urban communities. |
| Rutherford | Domestic Violence Program | Provide Sexual Assault Forensic Exams and free supportive services assisting adult victims of sexual assault find hope, healing, and recovery. |
| Rutherford | Dominion Financial Management, Inc. | To help 30 families avoid homelessness though financial coaching and education to improve their housing situation following the pandemic. |
| Rutherford | Doors of Hope, Inc. | Our objective is to provide 30 clients with services such as shelter, food, case management and mental health counseling. |
| Rutherford | Elders First Adult Day Service dba Mindful Care | To preserve independence and prevent institutionalization for 19 cognitively impaired older adults, while providing support and respite for their caregivers. |
| Rutherford | Endure Athletics Foundation | Provide a safe after school program for 50 homeless children and youth. |
| Rutherford | Ethos Youth Ensemble | Ethos provides musically enriching opportunities for student musicians (grades 2-12), the community, and area schools through weekly instruction and concerts. |
| Rutherford | First Shot Foundation | First Shot STEM Academy has licensed teachers providing STEM education in after school and during school breaks. |
| Rutherford | Greenhouse Ministries | Greenhouse Ministries is requesting partial funding for eight mobile food banks to be held in Rutherford County in 2022. |
| Rutherford | Jesse C Beesley Animal Humane Foundation | To promote care and kindness to animals through affordable spay/neuter services, vaccinations, preventative care and education about responsible pet ownership. |
| Rutherford | Journeys In Community Living | To provide supplemental rent for 14 residents in Journeys' Supported Living Program. |
| Rutherford | Murfreesboro Cold Patrol | Housing stabilization for individuals who have experienced chronic homelessness |
| Rutherford | Murfreesboro Muslim Youth Inc. | To engage youth in meeting emergency food, housing, and utilities needs for 80 or more Murfreesboro residents. |
| Rutherford | New Direction Community Development Corporation | To provide food boxes, food bank, FunCare Bags (food, hygiene, and toys), weekend meals, bulk food & supply outreach. |
| Rutherford | Nourish Food Bank | To increase the reach and impact of our food delivery program to low-budget hotels and campgrounds for displaced families. |
| Rutherford | Possibility Place | To provide art classes for the adults in our program to further develop self-esteem and confidence and improve mental health. |
| Rutherford | Prevention Coalition for Success | To increase access to behavioral health services for persons with substance use disorder referred from a First Responder |
| Rutherford | Read To Succeed | Family Literacy Nights provide reading time, a supervised literacy activities, a book and, dinner for the entire family. |
| Rutherford | Renewed Life Ministries Outreach | To empower 25 RLMO students to eat in a nutritionally healthy manner promoting physical wholeness and continuing after graduation. |
| Rutherford | Rutherford Co. Area Habitat for Humanity | To provide doors for the construction of affordable and permanent homes for low – moderate income families in Rutherford County. |
| Rutherford | Special Kids Therapy and Nursing Center | Provide life skills and field trips for youth with special needs, ages 6 through 25 years, through Camp Ability. |
| Rutherford | Stepping Stones Safe Haven, Inc | To provide case management support to women and children experiencing homelessness, moving them to stability and wholeness. |
| Rutherford | Tennessee Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra Association Inc | To educate students in the art of symphonic music through school visits and free concerts with professional musicians. |
| Rutherford | The Barnabas Vision | Provide financial assistance for rent and utility bills on behalf of 330 clients to remain in stable housing. |
| Rutherford | The Center for the Arts | The Center for the Arts (CFTA) provides year-round performing arts programs and performance opportunities for youth in Rutherford County. |
| Rutherford | The Hope Station, Inc | To provide rental, utility assistance, and mental counseling to single mothers and their minor children in Rutherford and Davidson Counties. |
| Rutherford | The Journey Home | To provide meals 7 days each week to the homeless and disadvantaged in Rutherford County through the Community Cafe. |
| Rutherford | United Way of Rutherford and Cannon Counties | Provide books to children under age 5 each month to provide a foundation for learning in Rutherford and Cannon Counties. |
| Rutherford | You Can Make It Home Ownership Center, Inc. | To provide housing stabilization counseling services to 20 families in the Nashville-Davidson-Rutherford MSA facing eviction or foreclosure. |
| Smith | Smith Co. High School Speech and Drama | To provide on-stage acting and off-stage (technical, construction, lighting, etc.) training to 2nd-12th grade students in Smith County. |
| Stewart | Humane Society of Dover-Stewart Co. | To rescue, spay/neuter, vaccinate, and re-home the stray and abandoned cats and kittens in Stewart and Houston Counties, Tennessee. |
| Stewart | Stewart Co. Friends of the Public Library | To provide Dolly Parton's Imagination Library books free of charge to every registered child under the age of 5. |
| Sumner | Borderless Arts Tennessee | To provide 15 young adults with disabilities exposure to masters in the art world and provide training in their styles. |
| Sumner | Community Life Bridge | To enhance quality of life for mature adults in our community through affordable, assisted transportation. |
| Sumner | Grace Place Ministry | To assist graduates transitioning into independent housing, including deposits, moving costs, household furnishings, and, when needed, utility and rent assistance. |
| Sumner | Habitat for Humanity of Sumner Co. | To provide home repairs to vulnerable communities in Sumner County |
| Sumner | Home Bound Meals Program | Provide friendship and a nutritional meal to those 60+ years of age unable to prepare a healthy meal for themselves. |
| Sumner | Mission Discovery | To help and encourage families in need by providing manpower, building supplies, and supervision to complete various repair projects. |
| Sumner | Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center | EC:CO (Exhibition Connect: Community Outreach) Program support, offering FREE year-round art-making activities benefiting 3500+ underserved Middle TN youth and families. |
| Sumner | Salvus Center, Inc. | To initiate a “Care Book” program that will improve health literacy for Salvus Center patients |
| Sumner | Sumner Co. CASA | To provide training and support for 30 community volunteers that will advocate for abused and neglected children in Sumner County. |
| Sumner | Sumner Spay Neuter Alliance | To provide spay/neuter to 400 families in need with a goal of keeping pets in homes and out of shelters. |
| Trousdale | Community Help Center of Trousdale Co. | To assist with providing food and other necessities to underprivileged individuals and families within our service area. |
| Trousdale | Ward School Community Preservation Association | Update dance class environment to provide a better learning environment for instruction.by painting walls and refurbishing restrooms. |
| Warren | Helping Animals of Warren Co. HAWC | To assist with the cost of spay/neuter of cats and dogs to low income in the Warren County area. |
| Warren | Pauls Clinic, Inc. | To sterilize 200 pets residing in low-income households. |
| Warren | Warren Arts Foundation | Provide performing arts classes to Warren Co. Homeschool Groups followed by auditions and stage performance MTI Jr or Kids Musical. |
| White | White Co. Public Library Foundation | To prevent the "Summer Slide" in literacy skills, and to provide educational/entertaining summer activities to all ages in the community. |
| Williamson | Bridges of Williamson Co. | Our Specific Assistance Program provides direct services to victims of domestic violence who are living in our temporary emergency shelter. |
| Williamson | BrightStone, Inc. | To provide adults with special needs with the best healthcare possible through educational programs, comprehensive fitness and wellness activities. |
| Williamson | Educare | To provide substance abuse treatment to approximately 100 individuals that are under-served or uninsured in the 21st Judicial District. |
| Williamson | FrankTown Open Hearts | To cultivate low-income students talents, equipping them with the skills needed to become leaders, dancers and performers. |
| Williamson | Free for Life International | To equip vulnerable populations with critical knowledge about human trafficking prevention and how to protect themselves & their communities. |
| Williamson | Friends of Franklin Parks | To enhance the Franklin community by installing a new trailhead at Chestnut Bend for the expansion of the trail system. |
| Williamson | Friends of Williamson Co. Animal Center | To provide spay/neuter services for 600 owned pets. The recipients of the service would be qualified based on income qualifications. |
| Williamson | Gentry's Education Center at the Store Front, Inc. | Provide education and job skills training for 20 at risk families and tutoring support for their children using 2Gen approaches |
| Williamson | GraceWorks Ministries | To provide rent and utility bill assistance allowing 6 families to avoid eviction and 31 families avoid utility disconnection |
| Williamson | Habitat for Humanity Williamson-Maury | To provide critical repairs to low-income senior homeowners to allow them to remain living independently in safe, accessible homes. |
| Williamson | Harpeth Conservancy | Expand Water Quality Monitoring Network and Create Real-Time Pollution Alert System to Protect Public Health |
| Williamson | Healing Housing, Inc. | To provide 20 new Healing Housing residents with Individualized Healing Plan Resources (IHPR) as they work toward long-term sobriety. |
| Williamson | Heaven Can Wait Animal Rescue and Sanctuary | Provide ½ costs towards vet care/meds for 13 sanctuary dogs at Heaven Can Wait Animal Rescue and Sanctuary |
| Williamson | High Hopes, Inc. | To equip preschool and kindergarten children in the High Hopes inclusive school with the skills necessary to succeed. |
| Williamson | Mercy Community Healthcare | To provide access to social-emotional learning groups to students in Williamson and Marshall Counties each summer. |
| Williamson | Owl's Hill Nature Sanctuary | To build a new trail (hand and machine built) with attention to sensitive riparian zone and clear invasive species. |
| Williamson | People For Animals | Offer financial assistance for spay/neuter surgeries to pet owners in need in Middle TN |
| Williamson | Retrieving Independence | Enabling and supporting the training and placement of life changing animals through the Retrieving Independence Training Academy (RITA) in 2022. |
| Williamson | Snooty Giggles Dog Rescue | To pull 150 dogs in 2022/1H from shelters, provide medical care and place dogs into foster or adoptive homes. |
| Williamson | Tennessee Medical Foundation | To continue offering confidential, free mental health assessment and connection to resources for struggling Tennessee health professionals. |
| Williamson | The Battle of Franklin Trust | Address routine, yet infrequently needed (every 4-75 yrs), preservation work to Carnton's exterior non-roof, roof supporting infrastructure. |
| Williamson | The Refuge Center for Counseling | To provide affordable counseling services to female victims of sexual abuse/trauma, including group and individual sessions. |
| Williamson | The View Community Resource Coalition | To provide financial assistance and budget counseling for those with urgent needs in Fairview and surrounding areas. |
| Williamson | Tucker's House | To create safer, more accessible homes and environments for children and young adults with disabilities. |
| Williamson | Waves, Inc. | Waves of Awareness will create an awareness platform for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities while creating skill development opportunities. |
| Williamson | Williamson Co. Child Advocacy Center (dba Davis House) | To provide pyschoeducational resilience groups for victims and nonoffending caregivers of child abuse |
| Wilson | 15th Judicial District Child Advocacy Center | The CAC provides a child friendly environment where abused children feel safe, supported, and believed during each child forensic interview. |
| Wilson | Cedar Senior Center | To provide Wilson County elderly and surrounding counties with cost effective nutritious lunch and a safe place to gather. |
| Wilson | Charis Health Center | To provide access to healthcare and health education for the medically uninsured and medically vulnerable during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. |
| Wilson | Compassionate Hands | To provide basic resources that enable unhoused Wilson County neighbors to be safe and to secure stable income and housing. |
| Wilson | Cumberland University | Cumberland Voices provides students, faculty, staff, and local communities an opportunity for important and timely conversations about diversity and inclusion. |
| Wilson | Empower Me Center | To provide 1,050 professionally facilitated, therapeutic & recreational summer camp activity days to 50 special needs individuals throughout Middle Tennessee. |
| Wilson | Lantern Lane Farm Counseling | To provide Crisis Counseling training for twenty helping professional enabling counselors to attend to urgent/crisis situations in our community. |
| Wilson | Lebanon Senior Citizens Center | To increase the availability of a balanced meal to at risk older Americans, keeping the cost at an affordable price. |
| Wilson | Mt. Juliet West Wilson Co Senior Citizens Service Center | Funds to continue Ballroom Dance Therapy Program |
| Wilson | New Leash on Life | To provide spay/neuter services for all dogs/cats in need with a focus on pet owners in rural outlying counties. |
| Wilson | Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary | Host a children's summer day camp to educate young people on the joys and challenges of caring for senior dogs. |
| Wilson | Prospect | To provide funds to partially cover the cost of activities for participants in our Adult Day Services Program. |
| Wilson | Rest Stop Ministries, Inc | Using survivor-centered, trauma-informed care, Rest Stop Ministries comprehensively and holistically restores female survivors of domestic sex trafficking |
| Wilson | Tennessee Respite Coalition | To provide volunteer opportunities, companionship, and support to older adults and their caregivers through a Senior Volunteer Program. |
| Wilson | The Joe Beretta Foundation | To provide emergency medical housing for heart failure patients and families receiving treatment in Nashville. |
| Wilson | Wilson Books from Birth | To foster a love of learning and reading in all Wilson County pre-school children, resulting in improved long-term educational outcomes. |
| Wilson | Wilson Co. Community Help Center | To provide 160 cases of Ensure to the elderly and cancer patients in 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 the intentions and goals of their charitable endeavors. For more information, call 615-321-4939 or visit www.cfmt.org.
