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Give to support a cause, address an issue or help a charitable organization. You can start your own fund, give to an existing fund, or give directly to Middle Tennessee nonprofits.
Longtime Woodbury, Tennessee, residents Dr. and Mrs. J.F. Adams are memorialized through a public library building located on their former property, built through the leadership of the Woodbury Lions Club and other community members, and through funds raised from the public. The Fund exists to endow support permanently for this community institution.
Recognizing the need for long-term financial sustainability, the National Museum of African American Music Endowment Fund will secure future acquisitions, collection care, temporary exhibitions, educational programs and general operations. This Endowment will allow the Museum to maintain the relevance and strength of collections, offering of exhibitions and educational platforms for the preservation of one of the America’s most cherished pastimes - music!
As support for the African Methodist Episcopal Church's commitment to education, this Endowment Fund will provide financial assistance to young men and women who are training for the ministry in the A.M.E. Church.
Alive Hospice has been offering physical, psychological and spiritual support to people with life-threatening illnesses and their families since 1975. It is the oldest and largest nonprofit, community-based hospice in Middle Tennessee. As a nonprofit agency, Alive Hospice provides end-of-life care to anyone from any socioeconomic, ethnic, racial, and religious backgrounds regardless of ability to pay.
The Alliance Française Cultural and Educational Fund increases the appreciation and knowledge of the French language and francophone cultures by providing French classes, scholarships for area French teachers and cultural events. This Endowment Fund ensures the future of Alliance Française's mission to offer opportunities that enrich the lives of Middle Tennessee residents.
Benton Hall, established in 1977, is a private school that serves students in grades 1-12 who have learning differences or who have not performed successfully in the traditional school environment. Offering small class sizes and individual attention, Benton Hall is located in the Grassland community near Franklin.
Bethlehem Centers of Nashville serves more than 6,000 people each year, delivering quality programs and services that promote self-reliance and positive life choices for children, youth and adults in Middle Tennessee. Founded in 1894, Bethlehem Centers now has facilities in North, South and downtown Nashville and in Cheatham County at Camp Dogwood. This Fund exists to help protect a rich tradition and the bright future of those it serves.
Book'em and Reading Is Fundamental Nashville share the desire to inspire a love of books and reading in all children by providing reading volunteers to schools, pre-schools and library story times, and books to children who may not have books of their own, in order to send the message that reading is important and fun. The two organizations merged in 2006 under the name of Book'em in order to enhance and expand services. This Fund was created to help ensure the future growth and stability of Book'em.
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee has positively impacted the lives of thousands of Nashville's youth for more than 100 years. Its eight sites serve a culturally and economically diverse youth population, ages 6-18. It is open to the public, and no one is ever turned away because of an inability to pay. The Clubs give kids a safe place to learn and grow with life enhancing programs and character development.
Through the power of spirituality and the practice of love, the Campus for Human Development provides hospitality with a respect that offers hope in a community of non-violence. Their mission is to provide programs that emphasize human development and recovery to those who call the streets of Nashville home.
CASA, Inc., established in Nashville in 1984, provides trained community volunteers to advocate for abused, neglected or abandoned children, with no place to call home, who find themselves lost in never-ending court battles. Court Appointed Special Advocates provide a voice in court for these vulnerable children and help them find safe, permanent homes. This Fund helps ensure the agency's ability to continue providing volunteers until child abuse no longer exists.
The Center for Nonprofit Management helps nonprofits improve their services to the community. It provides training, consulting, and evaluation programs for its 700 member nonprofit agencies throughout Middle Tennessee. It also recognizes excellence in the nonprofit community and serves as an advocate for the nonprofit sector in the Nashville area. This Fund will enable The Center to work toward its vision of enhancing our community through extraordinary nonprofit services.
Tennessee's leading provider of behavioral health services has taken a major step to ensure the future of community behavioral health care throughout its service area by establishing this Fund. The Fund will support the research and infrastructure necessary to bring new treatments to clients and to provide universal access to those in the community who cannot afford behavioral health care.
What better way to grow a child's imagination than exposure to books, which have the power to teach, inspire and make us dream? The Cheatham County Imagination Library does just that, sending an age-appropriate free book monthly to every newborn to five-year-old child living in Cheatham County. This Endowment Fund was created as a source of funding to ensure the future of this free book program, so that children in the area can continue learning the joy of reading with books of their own.
Circle Players has provided a unique window on the human condition by way of insightful, talent-filled theatrical performances throughout its long history. Like every other arts organization serving Nashville, early in that history Circle Players had to work hard to pay its bills.This Endowment Fund is evidence both of their fiscal responsibility and the broad and deep support bestowed upon them by the community.
The senior center, created in 1963, has grown from just a location for recreation to one of Middle Tennessee's largest and most complete centers. Thousands of annual participants enjoy daily breakfasts and lunches, a wide range of education classes including a large computer lab, physical activities, homebound services, an onsite adult day care center, and weekend live-band dances. This Fund will help ensure the continuation of the center for future generations.
In downtown Dickson, Tennessee, the Clement Railroad Hotel Museum, previously known as the Hotel Halbrook, is one of the very few examples of a railroad hotel in the state. The museum's historical display panels tell stories about railroad construction during the Civil War, the history of local industries and other area community histories, such as Promise Land that was founded by freed blacks. Governor Frank Clement was born in the hotel while his parents lived there and managed its operations. Items belonging to his family and artifacts from Mr. Clement's life are on display in exhibit rooms. This endowment will ensure the future funding of the Clement Railroad Hotel Museum.
In 1983, Marcel Kellar, Kelly Miller Smith, Andrew White, John Corry and Norman Reed set up The College Trust to invest in the futures of the local historically African-American Colleges and Universities and the students who attend them. Led by the Interdenominational Ministerial Fellowship, many of the churches of the Nashville community contribute to The College Trust on a regular basis. In addition, they support the Fund with The Community Foundation in order to build an endowment to ensure that students of American Baptist College, Fisk University, Meharry Medical College, and Tennessee State University have financial help in the years to come.
Through The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, each of us can be empowered to help define and realize our own unique vision of the opportunities which will shape the next century of life in our community. The Community Foundation brings good people and good causes together to help ensure both the excellent stewardship of donor Funds and the wise investment of grants in the counties it serves.
Council on Aging of Greater Nashville addresses the unmet needs of older adults and caregivers through information, advocacy, and education and by being a catalyst for comprehensive solutions. This Agency Endowment Fund ensures there are permanent resources for this important work serving our community’s eldest members.
Since 1968 Crisis Intervention Center worked to prevent suicide, to empower individuals to face life challenges and to meet basic and emergency needs. The Crisis Intervention Center (now part of Family & Children's Service) provides skilled, compassionate crisis intervention and outreach that includes support groups for those whose loved ones have died by suicide; direct advocacy; and information and referral for thousands of social and other community services through the 2-1-1 Information and Referral Service.
Cumberland County Cardiac-Pulmonary Rehabilitation Alumni, Inc. provides assistance in covering the cost of cardiac or pulmonary rehabilitation for those who do not have insurance or those who need help paying deductibles or co-payments. The Cumberland County Cardiac-Pulmonary Rehabilitation Alumni have generated money through fundraisers since 1997, but an Endowment Fund was established to ensure the future and meet the demands of a growing population.
Cumberland Heights is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of those facing addictions by providing in-patient and out-patient rehabilitation. This Endowment Fund was made possible by a grateful Cumberland Heights donor who faced personal challenges and, with the agency's assistance, was able to overcome addiction.
In 2002, the Dickson County Public Library moved into a new building, which houses 75,000 books and much more. Dollars from this Fund will be dedicated to specific children and adult programs throughout each year, which range from pre-school literacy to computer classes for seniors. The library's board has big plans for the future, and its members hope that residents of Dickson will continue to contribute to this Fund to support this wonderful community asset.
The Discovery Center at Murfree Spring, established in 1987 in Murfreesboro, is dedicated to providing a warm environment where families can explore together and learn from discovery. Hands-on exhibits and programs in art, social studies and science help to increase self-esteem, encourage critical thinking and questioning, strengthen family bonds, and stimulate creativity.
Alcoholism and drug addiction are challenges that confront this community today and are likely to for years to come. Discovery Place is a residential program in Burns, TN that offers the means and environment for men to refocus their lives on a path of recovery, spirituality and productivity through the methods outlined in the long-established Twelve Step tradition. In so doing, it draws on the talents of a staff who all have quality sobriety time and share their experience, strength and hope with the men in the program. This Fund exists so that Discovery Place will always be able to offer its treatment services to men taking positive steps for an improved quality of life.
Rutherford County is committed to ending violence and discrimination in the lives of victims suffering the pain, fear and shame of domestic abuse. The Domestic Violence Program is a key part of those efforts providing programs such as emergency shelter, legal advocacy, children's and elders' services, counseling services, and rape and sexual assault programs. This Fund is designed to make sure that as long as these challenges exist, funds will be available.
The mission of the Down Syndrome Association of Middle Tennessee is to enhance the lives of individuals with Down syndrome by providing support, information and education to them and their families. This Fund creates a permanent endowment to ensure programs and services.
Creating solutions that change the lives of children and adults with disabilities or other special needs and their families, Easter Seals provides a network of services throughout Tennessee, including health and fitness; camping and recreation; job training and employment; and physical, occupational and speech therapy. Easter Seals' programs provide opportunities for children and adults with disabilities to engage as fully as possible in family and community life, education, work and recreation.
The Exchange Club Family Center, Inc. was established in 1985 to prevent child abuse and improve the lives of families in Middle Tennessee. The center's services include parent education, in-home case management, safe exchanges and supervised visitation, and education and awareness. This endowment ensures the children of tomorrow will be protected from abuse and neglect, and families will be strengthened for generations to come.
The Exchange Club/Stephens Center was established in 1988 with the mission of preventing child abuse and neglect in the Upper Cumberland area. The Center identifies families who are at-risk of child abuse or neglect and then offers appropriate services, including home-visitation programs, parent education classes, community education activities, a community resource closet, and 24-hour on-call access for families needing support or assistance. The Fund will help ensure the continued availability of caring, responsive, community-based efforts for child abuse prevention.
The mission of Family & Children's Service is to give real help for real hurt right now. For more than 65 years, they have provided trauma counseling for children and adolescents who are witnesses or victims of violence, Crisis Center counseling, clinical assessments, consultation and training for foster and adoptive parents to help special needs children find loving homes, and free and sliding scale counseling for at-risk youth, welfare to work families and those who could not otherwise afford mental health care.
The mission of First Steps, Inc. is to educate and care for infant to kindergarten-aged children with special needs and medical conditions alongside their typically developing peers in an inclusive environment. With this Fund, First Steps can continue its more than 50-year history in the Nashville community of serving children and their families, many of whom are often turned away from other programs because of the severity of their health issues and/or limited resources.
Drawing on the legendary heritage of the 101st Airborne, Special Operations soldiers and Fort Campbell, The Fort Campbell Historical Foundation supports the "Wings of Liberty" Museum in Clarksville. The museum is a tribute to the traditions of soldier patriots, preserving their history and reminding each visitor that these heroes are not just soldiers, they are sons, daughters, husbands, and wives who have served to protect Americans' freedom. The Foundation seeks to educate young and old, inspire patriotism, and build a bridge between the military and civilian communities. This Fund seeks to ensure that it always can.
The mission of Friends of Tennessee School for the Blind is to enhance and enrich the educational, vocational, special skills, and social development of students enrolled in the Tennessee School for the Blind. This Endowment ensures there will always be funds available for continued support for the school, which has served children with visual impairment since 1844.
The Friends of Warner Parks was organized to preserve, protect and exercise stewardship over Percy and Edwin Warner Parks. It advocates protection of the natural integrity of the Parks; promotes educational programs; provides a wide range of recreational programs consistent with the Parks' natural and historical integrity; and maintains and enhances the beauty of the Parks and their historic structures.
Free of charge to everyone, Gilda's Club Nashville provides a gathering place where men, women and children with cancer and their families and friends can join with others to actively involve themselves in building social and emotional support as a supplement to regular medical care. Its purpose is to offer members lectures, workshops, classes, support groups, and social activities in a non-residential, home-like setting.
Through this Fund, the board of directors of the Girl Scout Council of Middle Tennessee wishes to permanently endow its organization to continue its mission to help girls find courage by exploring new adventures, confidence by discovering their abilities, character by shaping their values, and connections by forming friendships with other girls.
The Gordon Jewish Community Center is the center of Jewish life in Nashville, providing recreational, educational, social and cultural programs and services to thousands of member families. The GJCC proudly reaches out to its non-Jewish neighbors, inviting everyone in the community to join, play and learn together, regardless of religious affiliation. Their purpose has changed little in the over 100 years since its founding: to enrich lives and strengthen community.
Founded in 1926, Grace M. Eaton Childcare and Parent Resource Center was the first nonprofit childcare organization in Nashville, established for the express purpose of serving black, low-income, inner-city children. The mission of the program flows from the philosophy that Grace M. Eaton provides quality childcare for children of working parents, or those who are preparing for productive employment by completing educational programs or employment training. The Center works with parents and the community to prepare children for a healthy and successful future. This endowment is a component of that commitment to nurturing young lives.
The Nashville Area Habitat for Humanity was created in 1985 with a mission to provide families in need with the life-changing opportunity of buying a decent, affordable home. The Nashville Area Habitat for Humanity created this Endowment Fund as a way to continue its mission to build single family homes in partnership with low-income families.
Hands On Nashville creates and provides meaningful opportunities for people to transform their community through volunteer service. The agency leads approximately 900 volunteer projects and works with 200 nonprofit organizations, schools, government agencies, and corporate partners, connecting 24,000 volunteers to community needs in agencies and schools. As a way of recognizing founder Hal Cato's invaluable leadership in creating Hands On Nashville, the board of directors established this Fund in his name.
Hands-On-Science Center in Tullahoma saw the need to provide children an understanding of science and math. This Endowment Fund is intended to ensure the future of the Center as well as the ongoing efforts to increase participation at the Center.
Hilltoppers, Inc. is a community provider of day and residential services and support for adults with mental retardation in Crossville and Cumberland County, Tennessee.
This Fund was established to endow the activities of the Tennessee Holocaust Commission, Inc., which develops and implements programs in Holocaust education for Tennessee's public and private secondary schools, colleges, universities, and citizens of all ages.
Founded in 1974, the Hospital Hospitality House provides a "home away from home" for families and patients facing a medical crisis. HHH provides a vital retreat from the stress of keeping a constant vigil at the side of a loved one, by offering our guests lodging, meals and supportive services. HHH is helping to ensure its future and expand its ability to serve through this Endowment Fund.
For nearly 30 years, Humanities Tennessee has been a leader in creating civic dialogue and public programming in the humanities across the state. Among its initiatives are grants in support of humanities programs; Teacher Awards for outstanding teachers of the humanities; Museums on Main Street, which promotes a broader and deeper understanding of Tennessee's history and cultural life; the Southern Festival of Books; a family literacy program; and a week-long summer program at Austin Peay State University. Humanities Tennessee also makes grants for film, video and radio programs on southern history and culture.
The Imagination Library of Middle Tennessee provides one book per month to children from birth through age five across Davidson, Williamson, and Sumner Counties at no cost to families, regardless of income. Operated in partnership with the Governor’s Books from Birth Foundation, United Way facilitates the delivery of books each month in the three-county area. The Imagination Library of Middle Tennessee program promotes early childhood literacy and recognizes the benefits of an endowment partnership with The Community Foundation to provide giving options for all of Nashville interested in supporting literacy efforts.
Junior Achievement provides students in Middle Tennessee with programs to help them understand the relationship between what they learn in school and their successful participation in our economy, with an emphasis placed on at-risk children.
Who does the public turn to for information on the election process or government in general? The League of Women Voters. Where does the League turn for the resources to provide this information? The LWV of Tennessee Education Fund. The League's Education Fund is its research and education arm, which provides impartial information about government and the election process. The League's Education Fund established an endowment with The Community Foundation to help create an assured source of funding for the future.
For 40 years, Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands has provided free legal representation and education so that low-income citizens in our community can obtain necessities like health care, housing, income, protection from family violence, and access to basic goods and services. The benefits of Legal Aid Society's work reach beyond individual clients. By ensuring equal justice for low-income people, the whole community is strengthened.
Hot meals for Clarksville's homeless, six days a week is the mission of Loaves and Fishes of Clarksville. To ensure they can always live up to this commitment, Loaves and Fishes established this Agency Endowment Fund to provide it a steady stream of income over time.
The Lupus Foundation promotes research and provides information, education and support for patients with Lupus Erythematosus, an autoimmune disease that can cause chronic inflammation affecting various parts of the body. Since one in every 185 Americans is diagnosed with Lupus each year, this Fund was created to ensure compassionate support of Middle Tennesseans living with this disease.
Magdalene is a residential housing and recovery program for Nashville women with a criminal history of prostitution and drug abuse. Through this endowment, Magdalene seeks to provide lasting support for its mission to improve social functioning and physical, emotional and spiritual health. By providing safe housing, Magdalene helps women recover from addiction, reunite with families and earn legal employment at a living wage.
Mansker's Station Historic Site is a staffed, living-history locale maintained by the City of Goodlettsville. The site is a reproduction, built at one-third scale, of the station developed by Kasper Mansker in the late 18th Century as a respite for weary pioneers traveling west. To make sure this educational site is maintained for all time.
For more than a century, the Martha O'Bryan Center has been dedicated to helping individuals and families living in poverty. Today, through childcare, youth education, adult basic education, job skills training, an emergency food bank, meals on wheels, and other programs, the Center empowers people to become self-sufficient and independent.
For more than 100 years, McNeilly Center for Children has nurtured children's development and helped families thrive. Providing quality, affordable child care to Nashville families with parents who are working, in job training, or in school, McNeilly promotes the physical, social, emotional and cognitive development of young children during crucial developmental years, while supporting families with parenting education and social services. This Fund will help ensure McNeilly can continue this work for years to come.
The Mid-Cumberland Community Action Agency was chartered in 1971 to respond to the pressing problems faced by low-income people, while seeking new and effective ways to combat the causes and the effects of poverty. Through the years, numerous initiatives have been added, such as Head Start, Nutrition Self-Help, Senior Companionship, and others.
Monroe Harding partners with at-risk youth and their families to foster a transformation of the mind, body and spirit through residential independent living programs for older adolescents as well as non-residential programming. A foundation of education, vocation and life skills training provides a bridge to independence and success.
Founded in 1867 as a scholarship school for young men, Montgomery Bell Academy is a 7-12 grade all-boys school. The MBA Scholarship Endowment Fund was established by the school's trustees to ensure that scholarships and financial aid will always be available to guarantee that able students from different cultural and economic backgrounds can attend.
NAMI Tennessee is a grassroots, self-help organization dedicated to improving quality of life for individuals with mental illness, their families and communities through support, education and advocacy.NAMI educates those affected by mental illness with courses on mental illness, treatment and coping skills.
One in five families in the United States is affected by brain disorders (mental illness). NAMI Nashville is dedicated to improving the quality of life for an estimated 30,000 people in the Nashville area with these disorders. NAMI Nashville provides emotional support and education to families, mental health consumers and the public.
In 1948, Miss Lucy Fellis Dye founded the Nashville Area Home Economics Association for women with degrees in home economics. The association grew, and by 1976 they published "The Nashville Cookbook." The proceeds from the cookbook are used to fund the NAAFCS formerly the Lucy Fellis Dye Fund. NAAFCS benefits several Tennessee counties by providing money for scholarships, grants, conferences, leadership development, etc.
The Nashville Area Junior Chamber of Commerce (NAJCC) was founded to offer civic and social opportunities for young professionals in the Nashville area. Even through changing times, today a core tenet remains: NAJCC opportunities enable members to engage in hands-on professional development and leadership training experiences that are unparalleled. NAJCC Charities helps ensure that Nashville's signature giving spirit continues with each new generation of young professionals dedicating themselves to community enhancement and civic engagement.
The School of Nashville Ballet is committed to training the dancers of tomorrow. The progressive curriculum taught at the school supports both the serious student who aspires to achieve professional goals, as well as the student who elects to dance for enjoyment, recreation and exercise. Exclusively affiliated with Nashville Ballet, the school maintains an atmosphere of professionalism and allows students to dwell among professional dancers, choreographers, costumers and renowned teachers.
Nashville CARES has been meeting the challenges of AIDS in Middle Tennessee since 1985, educating youth and adults about how to prevent HIV infection, as well as providing services to support the continued independence and self-sufficiency of those infected. CARES services are provided free-of-charge, and this Fund helps ensure that programs will continue to be available to any Middle Tennessean in need, until a cure is found.
Each year, more than 70,000 children experience Nashville Children's Theatre's productions and outreach programs. Founded in 1931, the company is the oldest continuing children's theater in the United States and the oldest professional theater in Nashville. This endowment helps ensure that children's theater will be here for many generations.
This is a Fund established to preserve the past for the future. Opened in 1822, the City Cemetery is the oldest continuously operated public cemetery in Nashville. The stories of 20,000 individuals and families from the 1820s to the present day, including city mayors and some of Nashville's founders, are told through the gravestones - both simple and ornate. The City Cemetery is listed in the National Register of Historic Places for its historical and architectural significance, and this Fund will help maintain its grandeur for future generations.
Since its founding in 1945, the Nashville Symphony has established itself as one of the country's leading symphony orchestras, reaching more than 360,000 people in and around Middle Tennessee through hundreds of annual performances. The Nashville Symphony's music education and community outreach programs together serve more than 80,000 children annually, at no charge to the schools or to the students. The Nashville Symphony's growing national and international reputation has led to the building of a new world-class concert hall, Schermerhorn Symphony Center, which opened in September 2006.
Oasis Center is Middle Tennessee's only community-based organization dedicated to working exclusively with teenagers and their families. For 40 years, Oasis has provided youth with services such as Middle Tennessee's only emergency shelter, street outreach, educational support, Project Safe Place, individual and family counseling, and opportunities to contribute back to the community through service and leadership development. This Fund helps ensure that Oasis Center will remain a place where youth succeed for years to come.
100 Black Men of Middle Tennessee, established in 1991, charged itself with the mission "to nurture and enhance the growth, development and opportunities for young black males of Middle Tennessee." The organization is comprised of local business leaders who invest both time and resources in activities that benefit inner-city youth. This Endowment serves to perpetuate the long-term commitment of the organization to the youth of Middle Tennessee by helping fund its annual programs and by making scholarships available.
OUR KIDS provides expert medical and psychosocial services for children who may have experienced sexual abuse. Each year, about 1,000 children and their families receive services from the OUR KIDS team, which stands ready 24 hours each day to help children deal with abuse. This Fund helps ensure OUR KIDS is available to give compassionate care whenever concerns about child sexual abuse arise.
Park Center serves individuals with mental illness through integrative services that focus on needs, choices and strength. Park Center provides employment training and placement, housing including safe havens, homeless outreach services, case management, co-occurring disorders program, and support services to adults and mentally ill youth transitioning out of foster care. This Endowment Fund provides a permanent source of funding for Park Center's programs and services.
Begun as the Athena Fund in 1985, when nickels and dimes were collected by schoolchildren and adult visitors to pay for the creation of the statue Athena, The Conservancy for the Parthenon and Centennial Park today is a moving community force in Nashville's premier urban park. The scope of the organization now includes stewardship of the Parthenon, its programs, and the park surrounding it. In conjunction with Metro Parks and Recreation, The Conservancy seeks to strengthen, enhance, restore and preserve these outstanding Nashville landmarks.
With six centers in Middle Tennessee, the Pastoral Counseling Centers of Tennessee, Inc. has been providing clinical psychotherapy and counseling for individuals, couples and families; life enrichment education for organizations; training for clergy and pastoral caregivers; and staff consultation, assessment and crisis intervention since 1985. The Pastoral Counseling Centers of Tennessee Endowment Fund was created to ensure the growth of the centers and the future care of those with mental health care needs.
PENCIL Foundation plays an essential role in Nashville by linking community resources of both volunteers and materials with Metro Nashville Public Schools. PENCIL responds to the needs of Metro Schools, matching over 500 businesses and service organizations with individual schools as PENCIL Partners, collecting donated school supplies for teachers and training volunteer tutors to work with at-risk students. This Endowment Fund was created to ensure the growth of PENCIL's programs as it serves at-risk youth.
Planned Parenthood of Middle and East Tennessee proudly provides access to reproductive, sexual and complementary health care services; information in settings that preserve and protect the right to privacy; and educational programs that enhance understanding of human sexuality.
The mission of Prevent Blindness Tennessee is to keep the SEE in TennesSEE with Screenings, Eye exams and Education. The organization works to prevent blindness and preserve sight through a wide variety of hands-on services to the community, including vision screening for both children and adults; free eye exams and free/low-cost glasses for those in need; public and professional education; and information, referral and research.
Progress, Inc. was founded by two families as they sought independent living arrangements for their young adult sons with developmental disabilities. In 1971, as Billy Goodman and Tommy Powelson were reaching adulthood, they expressed their desire to live independently in the community and to have the opportunity to fulfill their dreams and reach their goals just like anyone else. The Goodmans and the Powelsons realized these desires couldn't be accomplished in a state institution, so they bought a house for Billy and Tommy to share, hired support staff and created what ultimately became the largest residential support provider in Middle Tennessee.
Nashville Public Television provides thought-provoking, educational, informative, and entertaining television to our community in a commercial free environment. NPT offers some of the most respected programs in the areas of education, history, drama, performance, and finance, as well as a wealth of educational resources for teachers. The money from the endowment will help this Middle Tennessee treasure continue to serve our citizens for years to come.
In 1996, Renewal House was founded as a long-term residential program for mothers and children in order to preserve families affected by addiction. On a daily basis, Renewal House provides safe and drug-free housing along with therapeutic services so that mothers can focus on recovery from addiction, while improving their parenting and vocational skills. In 2003, Renewal House opened a licensed Intensive Outpatient Treatment program for chemically dependent women, especially those without insurance. The Renewal House Endowment Fund is a source of hope for women
The Rochelle Center serves persons with developmental disabilities and their families, creating opportunities to build new skills, enhance independence and increase acceptance as valued members of our community. Rochelle Center has established this Endowment to continue their work to support personal outcomes for adults with developmental disabilities.
Through the power of spirituality and the practice of love, this program provides hospitality with a respect that offers hope in a community of non-violence. Their mission is to provide programs that emphasize human development and recovery to those who call the streets of Nashville home.
FiftyForward (formerly Senior Citizens, Inc.) is Middle Tennessee's leading agency providing comprehensive services focused on helping older adults remain active, independent and living at home as long as possible. Through a network of senior activity centers and community-based programs, FiftyForward serves more than 20,000 older adults, their families, and children each year.
Since 1978, the Sexual Assault Center has been the only agency in Middle Tennessee specializing in the support and treatment of survivors of sexual assault. Annually, the Center provides individual and group counseling to 700 or more adults and children, and prevention education curriculum for 80,000 school students. To support its philosophy of always being there when needed, and never turning anyone away for lack of ability to pay, the Center established this endowment.
Special Olympics Tennessee provides year-round sports training and competition activities for children and adults with mental disabilities. Programs are community-based, serving more than 12,000 athletes statewide and involving 9,000 volunteers. Special Olympics' goal is to develop individual skills, physical fitness, self-esteem, and positive attitudes toward teamwork and sportsmanship. The Fund was established to ensure the organization can meet the needs and desires of an evergrowing and expanding program.
In a country where extreme poverty and chaotic government have become a way of life, the St. Joseph Worker Foundation was established to benefit the people of Haiti by providing for the education, health and welfare needs of children and families. Jane and Dick Wildeman, who established this Fund, have seen the good work being done and have made a dear friend in Fr. Tijwa, who Jane affectionately calls "Haiti's goodwill ambassador." It is Fr. Tijwa's parish work that makes the Haiti Student Sponsor Program (an initiative of the St. Joseph Worker Foundation, Inc. for Children and Families of Haiti Agency Endowment Fund) possible.
This Fund was established to support substance abuse treatment and prevention, violence prevention and intervention services to Middle Tennessee students.
Rare is the family left unaffected by breast cancer. As long as it continues to endanger our friends and family, the Tennessee Breast Cancer Coalition will be there actively supporting community efforts to provide education, research and outreach. This Fund allows TBCC to continue serving Tennesseans living with breast cancer until this disease is eradicated.
Since its founding in 1913, the Tennessee Conference on Social Welfare (TCSW) has provided advocacy and service to thousands of Tennesseans, especially low income and vulnerable citizens. TCSW acts on behalf of 160 nonprofit agencies and 1,500 individual citizens to insure the availability, coordination, quality and effectiveness in human services, from adoption to aging.
For years, Tennessee Dance Theatre created modern dance works capturing the unique flavor of the south. Sadly, the company closed, but, as its legacy, the Fund continues to support what the original donors intended: the excellent performance of dance in Middle Tennessee.
The Tennessee Foreign Language Institute Endowment Fund was created to support the goals and activities of the Tennessee Foreign Language Institute (TFLI), a state agency established to promote, encourage, enhance, and facilitate the learning and teaching of foreign languages and cultures. The Fund allows for such initiatives as foreign language pilot programs in local elementary schools and promotion of foreign language education for children.
Tennessee Lions Charities, Inc. is committed to enhancing the vision of young children and, in turn, their lives. This Endowment was created to ensure Tennessee Lions Charities' ability to continue humanitarian projects and improving quality of life for children throughout Tennessee.
Established in memory of a child who never had the opportunity to explore music or her musical potential, this Fund is to endow the Tennessee Music Teachers Association's collegiate piano category of the aforementioned competitions.
Since 1991, hundreds of state winners of annual auditions have received awards from this Endowment Fund, created to assist students with the considerable expense of study, competition and travel required to achieve success in music. TMTA continues efforts to increase the amount of support given to these very talented students.
Seeking to raise standards of music teaching and performance in the state and to support students from elementary through college levels, through this Fund, The Tennessee Music Teachers' Association (TMTA) awards scholarships to accomplished and deserving music students who rank highest in the annual auditions. The Carrie E. Warrick Memorial Scholarship Awards Endowment Fund benefits the winners of the Music Teachers National Association Junior Piano Performance competition and the TMTA Ninth Grade Piano competition.
The Tennessee Parks and Greenways Foundation is a statewide nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving Tennessee's natural treasures. The Foundation believes the identification, preservation and protection of the most ecologically rich, historically significant and incredibly beautiful places in Tennessee are vital to protecting wildlife, improving water and air quality, providing close-to-home recreation opportunities, and creating sustainable communities and regions.
The Tennessee Walking Horse Foundation encourages support of charitable, scientific and educational projects for the welfare of the Tennessee Walking Horse. This Fund will assist in the support of such programs as Second Careers Adopt-a-Horse and Youth and Therapeutic Riding and Driving.
Tennessee Orphans Home was incorporated in Tennessee on September 14, 1909, for the purpose of “supporting and educating orphan children regardless of sect, creed or denomination.” In April 1947, TOH received not-for-profit 501(c)(3) recognition by the Internal Revenue Service. Since 1909 it has served over 20,000 children, youth and families. In September 1982, the name was changed to Tennessee Children’s Home. In 2000 Tennessee Children’s Home merged with Happy Hills Youth Ranch, now renamed Tennessee Children’s Home- North Central. Its mission is to serve abused, neglected, abandoned, wayward, or orphaned children and youth as well as their families, in a Christian manner. They provide for the physical, social, emotional, spiritual, and educational needs of children and youth in a safe and secure environment. This Fund will produce revenue to support important services to children and youth.
Tennessee 4-H encourages diverse groups of youth to develop their unique skills and talents to the fullest potential. This Agency Endowment Fund ensures there are permanent resources for this important work serving Tennessee's youth.
Tennessee Wildlife Federation’s mission is to lead the conservation, sound management and wise use of Tennessee’s wildlife and great outdoors. This Endowment Fund will provide resources for them to do so for generations to come.
This Fund honors Martha Ingram, who led the effort to build the Tennessee Performing Arts Center, and her vision that all children should have the opportunity to experience the transforming power of live performance. Educators and underserved students attend TPAC Education performances, supported by ticket subsidies, transportation assistance, and resources that encourage arts-integrated instruction in the classroom.
Dedicated to building a community guaranteeing that everyone, regardless of income or insurance, has quality health care that meets their needs, United Neighborhood Health Services serves anyone with TennCare, Medicare or other health insurance. It offers patients without insurance the opportunity to apply for reduced costs of visits, labs and medications. This Fund helps ensure United Neighborhood's ability to provide vital services to improve the health of underprivileged, vulnerable and minority infants, children, teens, adults, and seniors in our community.
United Way of Metropolitan Nashville invests in proven agency programs that show measurable and lasting results. The organization develops strategies to tackle the problems, investing dollars in programs to create a community where individuals, families and neighborhoods thrive. Donor gifts improve lives and also impact the community long-term by creating happy, healthy, informed people.
An autonomous, nonprofit organization, United Way of Williamson County touches the senior citizen living alone, the single mother struggling to make ends meet, or the child with disabilities whose parents need a helping hand. It helps the helpers who are there to offer that "hand up," ensuring that our communities remain safe and healthy. This endowment is critical to the organization's ability to continue to serve in the future.
The United Way of Rutherford County Endowment Fund offers venture grants to nonprofits and one-time grants for human and health care agencies in Rutherford and Cannon Counties. The Fund is intended to cover administrative costs of the United Way, so that all money given by donors will go to help those in need.
W.O. Smith Music School Endowment Fund Established 1993 The W.O. Smith/Nashville Community Music School provides music instruction to children from low-income families for 50 cents a lesson. The students are taught by an all-volunteer faculty of 100 musicians and teachers, drawn from every segment of the Nashville community. Instruments and music materials are loaned to students at no additional cost. This scholarship endowment aids talented W.O. Smith students who choose music as a college major.
