The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, a charitable organization dedicated to enriching the quality of life in 40 Middle Tennessee counties and beyond, announces $1,985,877 in grants to 328 nonprofit organizations as part of the 2016 annual grant-making process.
“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 an impact without the many quality 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, we are able to fund nonprofit solutions addressing Middle Tennessee’s emerging needs and opportunities.”
2016 Discretionary Grant Awards
| COUNTY | ORGANIZATION | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|---|
| Bedford | Caregiver Relief Program of Bedford County | to provide $100 monthly for reimbursement for quality respite care to 15 families suffering with Alzheimer's disease. |
| Bedford | Community Development Center | tol provide individualized behavior consultation services to children ages five through twelve through The Children's Center for Autism |
| Bedford | Middle Tennessee Spay and Neuter Clinic Inc | to offer low income families assistance for spaying and neutering their pets. |
| Cannon | Arts Center of Cannon County, Inc. | to host a two-day practicum exploring the National Core Arts Standards and methods that integrate them into the general curriculum. |
| Cannon | Cannon County Services and Violence Education/SAVE | to provide a childrens program that will allow victims to gain employment, become financially stable, and abuse free without childcare cost. |
| Cheatham | Ark Community Resource and Assistance Center | to provide nutritional food to approximately 425 food pantry clients two times per month. |
| Cheatham | Cheatham County Animal Awareness Foundation | to provide low cost spay neuter program for free roaming dogs (any size) in Cheatham County. |
| Cheatham | Pegram Elementary School | to provide an educational and enriching art experience for elementary students with limited resources in our community. |
| Cheatham | The Mary Lynn Foundation | to continue grow awareness of our organization in the counties we now serve so we an serve more people. |
| Coffee | Bel-Aire Elementary School | to provide fifth graders with Junior Achievement's free-enterprise educational program, culminating with participation in JA Biztown. |
| Coffee | Blue Monarch | to provide healthy, effective parenting tools to recovering drug addicted mothers who lack the skills to parent their children sober. |
| Coffee | CASA Works, Inc. | to train established and new volunteers using qualified professionals and resources and to provide knowledge on Adverse Childhood Experiences. |
| Coffee | City of Manchester | to implement a garden to table food program for school age children. |
| Coffee | Coffee County Anti-Drug Coalition | to provide behavioral modification classes including anger management to Coffee County students under disciplinary action. |
| Coffee | Coffee County Board of Education | to focus on improving the attendance of 628 students identified as chronically absent from school during the 2015-16 school year. |
| Coffee | Coffee County Children's Advocacy Center | to provide child abuse prevention education to 1,250 children and 225 adults in Coffee County. |
| Coffee | Coffee County Humane Society | to spay and neuter cats and dogs of low income families, stray cats, and foster pets before adoption |
| Coffee | Coffee County Imagination Library | to provide one high-quality, age appropriate Imagination Library book monthly for one year to 500 preschool-aged children in Coffee County. |
| Coffee | Coffee County Manchester Public Library | to provide a reading program to the children to encourage them to read during the summer and retain their skills. |
| Coffee | College Street Elementary | to provide students an opportunity afterschool to become "Makers, Coders, Drone Flyers, and Archers" and to get their creativity flowing. |
| Coffee | Deerfield Elementary | to provide food for the Deerfield Backpack Special Needs Program,coats and shoes, and back to school supplies for Deerfield students. |
| Coffee | East Coffee Elementary School | to improve the academic achievement of upper elementary students through advanced gross motor skills training. |
| Coffee | East Lincoln Elementary | to provide our Students of poverty attending East Lincoln Elementary School with basic essentials to meet their individual basic needs. |
| Coffee | East Middle School | to offer a program which will help meet the basic needs of economically disadvantaged students. |
| Coffee | Haven of Hope | to provide enhanced domestic violence and sexual assault victim services in underserved rural counties |
| Coffee | Hospice of the Highland Rim | to provide emergency grants for hospice patients for assistance not covered by their hospice provider, Medicare or private insurance. |
| Coffee | Manchester City Schools | to provide Manchester City Schools classroom teachers with resources to comply with the new Public Chapter 669 physical activity law. |
| Coffee | North Coffee Elementary | to provide weekend meals to students living in poverty. |
| Coffee | Partners for Healing | for a medical supplies program to help treat more patients, replace medical instruments and improve efficiency for every patient encounter. |
| Coffee | Robert E. Lee Elementary School | to give students the opportunity to attend Biztown and provide school supplies/clothing for students in need. |
| Coffee | Sportsmen and Professional Men of Coffee County, Inc. | to provide emergency assistance for food, clothing, hygiene, school supplies and financial help to Coffee County Students in a crisis. |
| Coffee | Tullahoma City Schools | to provide classroom teachers with resources to comply with the new Public Chapter 669 Physical Activity Law. |
| Coffee | Tullahoma Day Care Center | to provide a safe attractive playground for 32 disadvantaged pre-school children at the Tullahoma Day Care Center in Tullahoma, Tennessee. |
| Coffee | Tullahoma South Jackson Civic Association | to provide theater arts education to 100+ children and teens through summer camp, stage shows, and theater workshops. |
| Cumberland | Art Guild at Fairfield Glade | to provide art classes at the Fair Park Senior Center in Crossville, TN through the Art Guild Outreach program. |
| Cumberland | Wags and Whiskers Pet Rescue, Inc. | to spay/neuter 1000 community-owned cats/dogs for low-income families which will eventually result in "No More Homeless Pets" |
| Davidson | 100 Black Men of Middle Tennessee | to provide academic enrichment, social skills building, college preparation, community service, and career development for black youth through the 100 KINGS program |
| Davidson | A Step Ahead Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc. | to provide free, long acting reversible contraception (LARC) to Middle Tennessee women under age 30 with two or more children. |
| Davidson | A.B.L.E. Youth, Inc. | to provide Parent Education Programs for 40 parents of children who have severe disabilities and are confined to wheelchairs. |
| Davidson | Actors Bridge Ensemble | to fund scholarships for teenage girls to attend Act Like a GRRRL Summer and Year-Round Programs in writing and performance. |
| Davidson | Adventure Science Center Nashville | to provide 300 middle school students with free life science lab experiences, investigating the microbiology of plants and animals. |
| Davidson | Agape Animal Rescue | to provide spay or neuter surgeries to 80 abandoned dogs to prepare them for permanent adoption. |
| Davidson | ALIAS Chamber Ensemble | to fund the Education and Community Program (ECP), which brings classical music and educational programming into schools and community organizations. |
| Davidson | Alive Hospice | to provide scholarships for students in the health sciences for Alive Hospice's Simulation Lab for end of life conversations. |
| Davidson | ALS Association Tennessee Chapter | to provide families a break in the 24/7 caregiving demands of a loved one with ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease). |
| Davidson | American Red Cross - Nashville Area Chapter | to fund client assistance cards (CAC) for disaster cycle services in Sumner and Robertson counties. |
| Davidson | Andrew Jackson Foundation | to repoint the open mortar joints in the c.1822 Smokehouse at Andrew Jackson's Hermitage. |
| Davidson | Aphesis House, Inc. | to provide the basic needs necessary for obtaining employment and achieving self-sustainability for 75 men returning from incarceration and homelessness. |
| Davidson | Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville | to provide artists with critical entrepreneurial skills needed to build thriving, sustainable creative businesses through Periscope: Artist Entrepreneur Training |
| Davidson | Backfield in Motion | to provide educational services for disadvantaged minority boys performing below grade level and HiSET classes for adults in Northeast Nashville. |
| Davidson | BELL Garden Bellevue Middle School Edible Learning Lab | to enrich soil in 1/4 acre of BELL Garden for row vegetables beds and apply vertimulching techniques to fruit trees. |
| Davidson | Bethlehem Centers of Nashville | for the Seniors Club of BCN which provides educational, physical and emotional resources to low-income seniors living in Davidson County. |
| Davidson | Big Brothers Big Sisters of Middle Tennessee | to provide one-to-one mentoring services for 400 or more children of prisoners in Middle Tennessee through the Amachi program. |
| Davidson | Book'em | to provide pre-literacy skills training for 100 low-income PreK children to prepare them for kindergarten and beyond. |
| Davidson | Boys and Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee | for the SMART Girls and Passport to Manhood programs, building adolescents skills for adulthood. |
| Davidson | CASA, Inc. | to recruit, train, and supervise volunteers to advocate in court for the safe, permanent placement of abused and neglected children. |
| Davidson | Center for the Community Integration of New Americans | to provide academic support after school to 20 children of immigrants living in Nashville. |
| Davidson | Centerstone of Tennessee, Inc | to provide therapy and recovery skills to 100 adults who are overcoming substance abuse through Centerstone's Addiction Recovery Services |
| Davidson | Chatterbird | to underwrite the launch of an outreach program which will bring chamber music and social justice issues to students. |
| Davidson | Cheekwood | to provide hands-on art and gardens education to underserved Middle Tennessee youths facing barriers to arts access and enrichment. |
| Davidson | Christian Women's Job Corps of MIddle Tennessee | to provide HSE (High School Equivalency) classes at our Madison Satellite location for at least 30 adults (ages 18-56). |
| Davidson | Communities In Schools of Tennessee (CISTN) | to support at-risk MNPS students in poverty, providing effective case management to help them stay in school and ultimately graduate. |
| Davidson | Community Resource Center | to distribute new household necessities food stamps won't buy to nonprofit agencies for their clients in need. |
| Davidson | CommunityNashville | to conduct diversity and leadership training camps for local high school students to address changing demographics and human relations. |
| Davidson | Continental T-Belle Track Club, Inc. | to provide 35 young-women (ages 8-18) with mental, emotional and physical development opportunities through participation in an elite track program. |
| Davidson | Council on Aging of Greater Nashville | to prevent elder abuse and exploitation through education and outreach to seniors, family caregivers, and professionals who work with seniors. |
| Davidson | Country Music Foundation | for Words & Music, a curriculum-based lyric-writing program that creates opportunities for teachers and students to work with Nashville songwriters. |
| Davidson | Crossroads Campus | to procure laminate flooring for our social enterprise, Crossroads Pets, to ensure sanitation and durability in high traffic, animal environment. |
| Davidson | Davidson County Mental Health and Veterans Court Assistance Foundation | to provide housing assistance, drug/alcohol testing, and transportation assistance to Davidson County Veterans Court participants to ensure program compliance. |
| Davidson | Dismas, Inc. | to provide 17 men exiting incarceration comprehensive case management and clinical support, to help them become contributing members of society. |
| Davidson | East Nashville Hope Exchange | to provide summertime and school-year literacy programming for at-risk youth in grades K-4 as identified by local East Nashville schools. |
| Davidson | Easter Seals Tennessee, Inc.(ESTN) | to provide program supplies for adults living with disabilities so they can focus on and improve their abilities during camps/respites. |
| Davidson | Edgehill Bike Club | to teach kids bike repair, bike safety and explore Nashville. |
| Davidson | Edgehill Neighborhood Partnership | to expand after-school programming to include academic and enrichment activities for 16-24 middle school students residing in the Edgehill neighborhood. |
| Davidson | Faith Family Medical Center | to provide quality, low cost "well woman" exams (including lab work) to 67 hardworking uninsured or underinsured female patients. |
| Davidson | Family and Children's Service | to fund the Crisis Line--the only broad-spectrum crisis call line of its kind in Middle Tennessee. |
| Davidson | Family Foundation Fund | to provide agricultural training, organic produce, health and nutrition programs, and job opportunities to 60 constituents of our mentoring program. |
| Davidson | Family Reconciliation Center/Reconciliation Inc. | to provide classes and counseling to facilitate re-entry into free society for ex-offenders at Tennessee Prison for Women |
| Davidson | Fannie Battle Day Home for Children, Inc | to provide high-quality, affordable care for infant and toddlers who are living at-risk while their families work or complete school. |
| Davidson | FiftyForward | to provide one year of weekday, home delivered evening meals for 15 elders who are at risk of malnutrition. |
| Davidson | First Steps, Inc. | to provide early intervention services to low income and refugee families with special needs. |
| Davidson | Free for Life International | to produce educational radio broadcasts that educate the Middle Tennessee area on the risks, dangers and reality of human trafficking. |
| Davidson | Friends in General | to establish Men's Prostate Health Clinics and free prostate examination for uninsured or underinsured through Nashville General Hospital |
| Davidson | Friends of Warner Parks, Inc. | to engage a skilled team in repairing Warner Parks' heavily-used trail system, providing improved access/safety for thousands of monthly visitors. |
| Davidson | Friendship House, Inc. | to provide support, counsel, and recovery for alcoholic and drug addicted women, to help them and their children. |
| Davidson | Frist Center for the Visual Arts | to waive enrollment fees for child constituents of our Community Partner organizations to attend the Frist Center summer art camp. |
| Davidson | Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee | to provide financial assistance to 28 girls from underserved areas who would like to attend summer Girl Scout Summer Camp. |
| Davidson | Girls on the Run of Middle Tennesse | to provide 69 girls from low income families the opportunity to participate in a life changing research-based character development program. |
| Davidson | Goodwill Industries of Middle TN, Inc. | to provide paid work training for six weeks for high school students ages 16-21 years old during the summer break. |
| Davidson | Governor's Books from Birth Foundation | for the Marshall County Imagination Library to provide one new book per month to children from birth to age 5. |
| Davidson | Guardianship and Trusts Corporation | to serve up to 9 abused/neglected/exploited adults under 60, handling their medical, personal and financial matters as court-appointed guardian and conservator. |
| Davidson | Hands On Nashville, Inc. | to engage volunteers in improving the energy efficiency of 4 homes owned and occupied by low-income families who need utility assistance. |
| Davidson | Healing Arts Project, Inc. | to provide instruction in visual art and writing to 86 persons in mental health and addiction recovery |
| Davidson | Homework Hotline | for Call It Reading, an initiative of Homework Hotline that will teach 70 second, third or fourth graders to read. |
| Davidson | Hospital Hospitality House | to provide a home away from home for families and patients receiving medical care at Nashville hospitals. |
| Davidson | HUGGS Inspirational For Men and Women | to provide alcohol and drug treatment to those in early stages of chemical dependency. |
| Davidson | Humanities Tennessee | to provide more than 3,000 Middle Tennessee public school students with a program that encourages and supports reading and literacy. |
| Davidson | Insight Counseling Centers/Pastoral Counseling Centers of TN | to provide art and play therapy for 25 elementary school students of refugee families. |
| Davidson | Interfaith Dental Clinic | to provide compassionate, emergency dental care for 200 of the clinic's 2,000 low-income, uninsured patients, preventing an emergency room visit. |
| Davidson | Intersection | to present a concert in collaboration with Nashville in Harmony featuring two cutting edge works at Nashville State Community College. |
| Davidson | Jewish Family Service of Nashville and Middle Tennessee, Inc. | to provide operating support for adoption home studies, coordinating placement and post-placement services for the GLBTQ community. |
| Davidson | Jobs For Tennessee Graduates, Inc. | to provide job readiness training classes for 30 at risk high school seniors at Creek Wood High School in Dickson. |
| Davidson | King's Daughters Day Home | to prepare 86 at-risk infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and elementary aged children for school and beyond. |
| Davidson | League of Women Voters of TN Education Fund | to use original ballet to inspire students with the story of how Tennessee gave American women the right to vote. |
| Davidson | Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee & the Cumberlands | to provide free civil legal services and education to seniors for health care, long term planning, and other issues. |
| Davidson | Luke 14:12 | to provide 11,795 hot, nutritional, dinner-style meals to Nashville's hungry, homeless and working poor. |
| Davidson | Lupus Foundation of America, Inc., Mid-South Chapter | to provide direct intervention to 20 female lupus patients toward development of psychosocial self-care strategies. |
| Davidson | Lutheran Services in Tennessee, Inc. | to provide a community arts program to 70 at-risk youth living in poverty during school breaks and after school workshops. |
| Davidson | Martha O'Bryan Center | to provide comprehensive persistence coaching, mentorship, and wrap-around service referrals to 200 underserved, first-generation college students throughout their post-secondary careers. |
| Davidson | Meharry Medical College | to provide free, high quality healthcare to the underserved of Nashville and train the next generation of healthcare providers. |
| Davidson | Men of Valor | to expand its educational and training services to include 200 men incarcerated in Middle Tennessee CCA and TDOC prisons |
| Davidson | Mending Hearts | to provide medications to stabilize 150 women in our Treatment and Transitional Living programs and bus passes for work. |
| Davidson | Mental Health America of Middle Tennessee | to provide mental health education to 100 recently settled refugee and immigrant women in Davidson County, Tennessee. |
| Davidson | Mid-Cumberland Human Resource Agency Nashville | Provide direct support to 150 juvenile and adult offenders ages 16-24 enabling them to overcome barriers to education and employment. |
| Davidson | Miriam's Promise | to provide support and therapeutic services to 70-75 incarcerated, pregnant, and parenting women through psycho-social education groups and counseling. |
| Davidson | Monroe Harding, Inc. | to provide academic tutoring services to children, youth and young adults in, or transitioning out of, foster care. |
| Davidson | Morning Star Sanctuary | to provide emergency funds for victims of domestic violence needing bus passes, cab fares, prescriptions drugs, dental work, eyeglasses, etc. |
| Davidson | Music City Youth Orchestra Inc. | to provide student musicians with music education, instruction and master classes to supplement music programs in classrooms across multiple counties. |
| Davidson | Music for Seniors | to provide free group music performance instruction in ukulele, choral ensemble singing and percussive arts for approximately 100 older adults. |
| Davidson | MusiCares Foundation South Region | to provide financial assistance to over 800 low-income Nashville residents whose primary profession is music making. |
| Davidson | NAMI Davidson County | to present mental health stigma-busting programs to 60 additional employees in the workplace, promoting understanding and safe avenues of support. |
| Davidson | Nashville Ballet | Free, interactive performances that engage and educate our diverse community in schools and community centers throughout the region. |
| Davidson | Nashville CARES | Provide food to impoverished people living with HIV/AIDS who have been identified as having critical need for additional nutritional assistance. |
| Davidson | Nashville Children's Alliance | This request is for Electronic therapy medical records and training for our program staff. |
| Davidson | Nashville Children's Theatre | to support artistic salaries for "And In This Corner: Cassius Clay" at Nashville Children's Theatre in February 2017 |
| Davidson | Nashville Diaper Connection | The "No Child Wet Behind" provides baby diapers to moms that otherwise might not have them. |
| Davidson | Nashville Dolphins | to provide learn to swim classes for children and adults with intellectual and physical disabilities at no cost to participants. |
| Davidson | Nashville Humane Association | This program will assist in controlling pet overpopulation through increasing our low-coast spay/neuter and trap-neuter-release programs targeting feral cats. |
| Davidson | Nashville in Harmony | to provide an invitational master-class series in vocal technique, elevating the performance level of NiH and the greater choral community. |
| Davidson | Nashville International Center For Empowerment | Impart knowledge through Culture Exchange workshops promoting a culturally responsive classroom to 200 Metro Nashville Public School educators. |
| Davidson | Nashville LGBT Chamber Foundation | to conduct a study of the real and potential negative economic impact of anti-LGBT laws and policies on Nashville. |
| Davidson | Nashville Opera Association | to bring our children's opera ON toUR to 25,000+ schoolchildren throughout Middle Tennessee, many of whom are from underserved communities. |
| Davidson | Nashville Public Radio | Support local musicians and arts organizations through Classical 91.1FM's broadcasts of "Live in Studio C", Nashville Symphony and Nashville Opera. |
| Davidson | Nashville Public Television Council Inc. | to fund production expenses related to "NPT Reports: Aging Matters," focusing on issues affecting seniors and our community. |
| Davidson | Nashville Repertory Theatre | Hire local artists with expertise in specific elements of production and acquire supplemental funding for marketing a special season finale. |
| Davidson | Nashville Shakespeare Festival | Provide affordable or free public and school performances of ROMEO AND JULIET; provide preparatory in-school workshops for students |
| Davidson | Nashville Symphony Association | to provide free, high-quality instrument instruction and music education experiences to 4,100 students in Nashville. |
| Davidson | Nashville Zoo at Grassmere | to develop and implement spring and fall break camps and provide scholarships so financial hardship does not prevent camp attendance. |
| Davidson | National Museum of African American Music | to connect 1,000 underprivileged youth attending Nashville Public Schools with professional African American musician artists to learn, perform and engage. |
| Davidson | Nations Ministry Center | to provide job training and coaching to 75 refugees and help their families become generationally self-sufficient. |
| Davidson | NeedLink Nashville | to provide emergency rent or utility assistance to 30 Nashville-area MNPS or K-12 school employees. |
| Davidson | Notes for Notes | to provide after school music recording studios, free to youth so that they may explore, create, and record music. |
| Davidson | Nurses for Newborns of Tennessee | to prevent infant mortality, child abuse and neglect through nurse in-home visits. |
| Davidson | Oasis Center Inc. | to provide comprehensive support (group empowerment meetings, counseling, advocacy, and beyond) to improve the lives and conditions for LGBTQ youth. |
| Davidson | Operation Stand Down Tennessee | to address the lack of reliable transportation which limit job, medical and housing opportunities for veterans. |
| Davidson | Organized Neighbors of Edgehill | to provide computer and internet skills to our youth council so they can teach other residents, including children and seniors. |
| Davidson | Park Center | to provide art therapy for persons with mental illness and substance use disorders. |
| Davidson | PENCIL Foundation | to connect Nashville businesses as Academy PENCIL Partners who provide advanced resources and real-life experiences for MNPS high school students. |
| Davidson | Pet Community Center | to provide veterinary care to pets that are at-risk of being surrendered to a shelter. |
| Davidson | Ponder Anew | Through performances, discussions, workshops, residencies-provide a healing catalyst for veterans and inspire universal understanding of war's individual and cultural effects. |
| Davidson | Preschool for Children with Autism at the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center | to establish functional communication systems for 14 children in the Preschool for Children with Autism, ages 18mo. - 5yrs. |
| Davidson | Preserve Lindsley Avenue Now, Inc. | to restore the front entrance of the historic Lindsley Avenue Church making the building as welcoming as in 1894. |
| Davidson | Preston Taylor Ministries | to provide quality reading instruction for 20 low-income students (K-4th grade) for 7 weeks during the summer months. |
| Davidson | Progress Inc. | to provide 1266 hours of senior care services for low-income, elderly women. |
| Davidson | Project for Neighborhood Aftercare | to provide 190 low-income students STEM-based activities designed to improve literacy, math, and science skills. |
| Davidson | Project Return, Inc. | to provide job readiness, education and support to inmates of the Corrections Corporation of America-managed Metro-Davidson County Detention Facility. |
| Davidson | Proverbs 12:10 Animal Rescue | to provide spay/neuter services to 76 pets in the Middle Tennessee area. |
| Davidson | Rebuilding together Nashville | to provide critical repairs that create safe and healthy homes for impoverished homeowners at no cost to them. |
| Davidson | Rejoice Ministries | Rejoice Ballet empowers youth by training, nurturing and celebrating dancers from diverse racial, socioeconomic, cultural and developmental backgrounds. |
| Davidson | Renewal House | to provide trauma-informed, gender-specific intensive outpatient addiction treatment for 70 low-income women, including specialized programming for pregnant and postpartum mothers. |
| Davidson | Rest Stop Ministries, Inc. | to provide long-term residential care and comprehensive restoration services for adult female survivors of sex trafficking in TN. |
| Davidson | Richland Creek Watershed Alliance | Restore biodiversity and resilience to the Richland Creek riparian habitats located next to the McCabe Park Golf Course. |
| Davidson | Rocketown of Middle Tennessee | to provide free counseling services to under-served teens as well as related pertinent training and professional development for Rocketown staff. |
| Davidson | Rooftop Foundation | to provide one-time emergency rental/mortgage assistance to low income families/individuals in Davidson County on the brink of losing their housing. |
| Davidson | Safe Haven Family Shelter | to provide academic, social-emotional, and behavioral supports to children experiencing homelessness to reduce negative impact of lack of stable housing. |
| Davidson | Salama Urban Ministries, Inc. | to provide daily, year-round academic support with a literacy/Math emphasis for up to 100 under-served youth, primarily K-8th grade. |
| Davidson | Salvation Army Nashville Area Command | Pathway of Hope is a program designed to break the cycle of inter-generational poverty in families and individuals. |
| Davidson | Second Harvest Food Bank | to support food, children's nutrition lessons and healthy eating at 11 Davidson County Kids Cafe sites. |
| Davidson | Sexual Assault Center | to provide specialized therapy and support to a minimum of 30 low-income girls and women who have been sexually assaulted. |
| Davidson | Siloam Family Health Center | to provide mental health screenings, counseling and referrals for 450 newly arriving refugees. |
| Davidson | Society of Saint Andrew, Inc. | to rescue food from going to waste at farmers markets and use it to feed hungry people. |
| Davidson | Southeast Community Capital Corp/Pathway | Through "Business Transformation" and entrepreneurship provide education and financial stability to low-income and African American women business owners. |
| Davidson | Southern Alliance for People & Animal Welfare (SAFPAW) | SAFPAW seeks to continue providing free spay/neuter services & transportation to homeless pet owners & those living below poverty level. |
| Davidson | Southern Word, Inc. | to provide Middle Tennessee public school students with writing and music after-school workshops and events, tying academics to extracurricular activities. |
| Davidson | Sports 4 All Foundation | to provide adaptive exercise and nutrition education classes for people with disabilities. |
| Davidson | St. Luke's Community House | to provide the food for hot, nutritious meals every weekday to 85 low-income elderly or disabled West Nashville community members. |
| Davidson | Teach for America, Inc. | Empowering Nashville children in grades 1st - 12th through a high-quality summer learning experience. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Cancer Consortium | Just Ask is a program that educates cosmetologists to deliver healthcare messages to their female clientele specific to women's cancers. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence | to provide emergency financial assistance of up to $240 to 40 victims of domestic and sexual violence in middle Tennessee. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Craft | to support and expand FREE community festival with artists and hands-on craftmaking, creating next generation of craft artists and collectors. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Foreign Language Institute Fund Inc | to provide intensive English as Second Language (ESL) instruction to adult refugees upon their arrival to Nashville, TN. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Higher Education Initiative, Inc. | to provide two Nashville State Community College online courses for 20-25 incarcerated men at the Turney Center Industrial Complex. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Holocaust Commission, Inc. | to develop and expand innovative experiential training for police and law enforcement officials by examining lessons from the Holocaust. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition | to assist 3,500 immigrants statewide (specifically females in crisis), and educate 1,000 domestic workers about workplace safety and rights. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Justice for Our Neighbors | to provide coordinated immigration and family legal services for immigrant children seeking to be reunited with their families in Tennessee. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Kidney Foundation | to provide AccessRide tickets to 33 low-income dialysis patients who make three trips weekly for lifesaving treatment. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Lions Charities, Inc. | to provide vision screenings for children and identify potential problems for treatment prior to their beginning school. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Respite Coalition | to give 10 family caregivers in Dickson County respite time and educate 20 caregivers and community members about respite. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Trucking Foundation | to advance highway safety and help older drivers understand the impact that aging can have on their safe driving skills. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Voices for Victims | to provide 24 of 36 class presentations in Sumner County's 9th grade Health and Wellness blocks on Sexting and Cyberbullying. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Wildlife Federation | to provide a minimum of 80,000 pounds of organic venison to food relief agencies in Middle Tennessee. |
| Davidson | Tennessee Women's Theater Project | to support our 11th annual Women's Work Festival and celebration of performing and visual arts. |
| Davidson | The Branch of Nashville | to provide immigrants & refugees in the Southeast Nashville area consistent, high-quality English instruction, enhancing employment opportunities and community engagement |
| Davidson | The Brown Center for Autism | to provide professional counseling services to up to 32 parents with a child(ren) impacted by an Autism Spectrum Disorder. |
| Davidson | The Conservancy for the Parthenon and Centennial Park | to fund Middle Tennessee artists performing at The Conservancy's Musicians Corner program in Centennial Park. |
| Davidson | The Family Center/Exchange Club Family Center | to increase skills and knowledge to lower the risk of committing child abuse/neglect through weekly classes for 64 soon-to-be-released incarcerated parents. |
| Davidson | The Help Center | for the Help Center, which provides employment, counseling, education and supportive services to make and female offenders, ex-offenders and low income individuals. |
| Davidson | The Mary Parrish Center | to help defray the costs of healthcare, transportation, food, and other essential emergency needs for our residents. |
| Davidson | The Nashville Food Project, Inc. | to bring people together to grow, cook and share nourishing food, with goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in Nashville. |
| Davidson | The Neighborhoods Resource Center | to provide residents and neighborhood organizations with the knowledge and skills needed to help their neighborhoods succeed! |
| Davidson | The New Beginnings Center | to provide 100 low-income women with 7200 hours of wellness coaching that improves physical fitness, health and quality of life. |
| Davidson | The Next Door | to provide a continuum of evidence based service for women impacted by addiction, mental illness, and/or incarceration with compassionate care. |
| Davidson | The Porch Writers' Collective | to provide teaching artists for twelve free creative writing workshops in a variety of genres to Nashville's teens. |
| Davidson | Thistle Farms, Inc. | to provide support for incarcerated women survivors healing from abuse, violence, prostitution, trafficking, addiction and homelessness in Davidson County. |
| Davidson | Time to Rise Inc. | to enhance the life chances of at-risk youth through academic support and cultural enrichment. |
| Davidson | Turnip Green Creative Reuse | to provide engagement and enrichment to students as an alternative to In School Suspension in MNPS Middle and High School students. |
| Davidson | Urban Housing Solutions | to provide formerly homeless residents a basket of basic home essentials as they begin their new life in our housing. |
| Davidson | Vanderbilt University Medical Center | to pilot a cost-effective, easily replicable motivation-based behavior modification workshop to support healthy behaviors for 60 older adults. |
| Davidson | Volunteers of America | to provide elderly individuals who have developmental disabilities twenty-four hour care through a supported housing program. |
| Davidson | W.O. Smith Community Music School, Inc. | to provide an all-inclusive music camp experience to seventy W.O. Smith students during June 2017. |
| Davidson | Walden's Puddle | to provide care/treatment to Tennessee wildlife in need, with the goal of returning the rehabilitated animals to the wild. |
| Davidson | Water City USA/Nashville Clean Water Project | To support the Southeast's first technology-based "StoRM DRAIN ADOPTION" program that mitigates pollution and educates children while delivering greener communities via stormwater infrastructure. |
| Davidson | Westminster Home Connection | to build home repair capacity in Hickman County. Includes organizing local leadership to address safe and functional housing needs for seniors. |
| Davidson | World Hunger Team, Inc. | to build a hydroponics greenhouse using a surplus shipping container to grow food in a food desert in Nashville. |
| Davidson | World Relief Nashville | to equip college-educated new Americans with the skills and connections needed to obtain employment consistent with their professional background. |
| Davidson | YMCA of Middle Tennessee | for The Black Achievers progra, which boosts academic achievement, college access and career exploration for youth of color and underserved youth. |
| Davidson | You Have the Power...Know How to Use It, Inc. | to support existing prevention programs on child sexual abuse, acquaintance rape, domestic violence, and human trafficking, while expanding |
| Davidson | Youth Encouragement Services | to partially fund our After School and Summer Programs for 20 at risk youth from two inner city communities. |
| Davidson | Youth Villages Inc. | to provide critical needs and services for 20-25 youth aging out of foster care participating in Youth Villages' YVLifeSet program. |
| Davidson | YWCA Nashville & Middle Tennessee | to provide safety, housing, and case management to promote healing and self-sufficiency in 400 victims of domestic violence. |
| DeKalb | DeKalb County Board of Education-Coordinated School Health | to provide food to children in need every weekend during the school year. |
| Dickson | 23rd District Judicial Advocates, Inc. | to purchase a vehicle for transporting Drug Court participants to and from work, probation meetings, recovery groups, AA meetings. |
| Dickson | Charlotte Fagan United Methodist Church | to provide affordable, choral music education and enrichment to children and adults of all ages in Dickson and surrounding counties. |
| Dickson | City of Dickson Parks and Recreations | to construct a low ropes course to be located in J. Dan Buckner Park. |
| Dickson | Dickson Community Clinic | to provide financial assistance for medically necessary screening and diagnostic testing, referrals to specialists and medical supplies. |
| Dickson | Dickson Police Department | to provide community education programs for multiple groups including youth groups and children. |
| Dickson | town of White Bluff | to install professional sound and lighting equipment in the soon-to-be-constructed White Bluff Amphitheater to promote performance art and cultural enrichment programs. |
| Fentress | Best Friends Sanctuary | to help the low-income community in Fentress County spay or neuter their pets. |
| Franklin | Folks at Home | to provide Tai Chi for Arthritis for Fall Prevention courses to older adults to empower people to improve their health. |
| Franklin | Franklin County Humane Society | to provide veterinary care for rescued pets while they are in Animal Harbor until we find new homes for them. |
| Franklin | Good Samaritan Ministries of Franklin County | to provide food boxes for needy families in Franklin County approx. 375 families per month. |
| Franklin | West Middle School | to offer a program which will help provide for student's basic physical needs. |
| Franklin | Ziggy's Tree Wildlife Rehabilitation Center | to provide care for Tennessee's orphaned and injured native wildlife with the goal of returning them to their natural habitat. |
| Hickman | Hickman Humane Society | to provide spay/neuter services for 125 dogs and 50 cats owned by County citizens with limited financial means. |
| Hickman | Women Are Safe, Inc. | to provide court advocacy and meet other immediate needs of the victims of domestic violence in rural Middle Tennessee. |
| Houston | Bethesda Community Mission Inc. | to provide healthier food choices to residents of Houston County, especially those health issues. |
| Jackson | Friends of Animals of Jackson Co | to provide financial assistance for Jackson County residents to spay/neuter their pets. |
| Jackson | Granville Museum, Inc. | to provide living history experiences, demonstrating the 1940's a decade of change, for multi-generational audiences. |
| Lawrence | Kid's Place Child Advocacy Center | to provide free services to child victims of sexual and/or severe physical abuse. |
| Lewis | Plenty International/Kids to the Country | to provide counselor training and leadership development to 10 Nashville youth who were child participants in Kids to The Country. |
| Lincoln | Humane Society of Lincoln County | to spay/neuter shelter animals to make them more adoptable and to offer spay/neuter discounts to financially challenged pet owners. |
| Lincoln | Lincoln County Department of Education | to give middle and high school students the opportunity to collaborate with the local newspaper in order to create and sustain an on-line district-wide news website. |
| Lincoln | Southern Alliance For Animal Welfare | to provide spay/neuter surgery for 250 dogs and cats belonging to low income and senior citizen pet owners. |
| Macon | Macon County Arts Council | to provide one outdoor mural, done by Macon County students and a local artist, for a designated Lafayette building. |
| Macon | Macon Spay Neuter Assistance | to provide convenient, affordable spay/neuter for 100 dogs, 250 cats including 50 ferals within Macon County Tennessee. |
| Maury | Boys & Girls Clubs of Maury County | to provide tutoring by certified teachers and intensive academic mentoring to 100 high drop-out risk youth to ensure high school graduation. |
| Maury | CASA of Maury County, Inc | to provide educational advocacy skills to Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASAs) to improve educational outcomes for foster youth |
| Maury | Center of Hope | to provide counseling sessions to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking and human trafficking. |
| Maury | Family 2 Family | to provide financial assistance to low income individuals and families with their monthly utility bills. |
| Maury | James K. Polk Memorial Association | to provide history education through participatory activities to a growing, diverse audience. |
| Maury | Maury County Senior Citizens, Inc. | to expand the Maury County Senior Center's Fitness and Wellness Program to include arthritis exercise and dance classes. |
| 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 | Tennessee Children's Home | for the Equip Program, which will provide 32 at-risk youth on a daily basis with educational, behavioral therapy, and substance abuse counseling. |
| Montgomery | Clarksville/Montgomery County Arts and Heritage Development Council | to bring in specialized conservationists to advise on how to preserve an iconic "ghost" sign, faded historic advertising signage, on a historic downtown building. |
| Montgomery | Loaves & Fishes | to provide a nutritious noon meal six days a week to the working poor and indigent and distribution. |
| Montgomery | Manna Cafe Ministries | to provide nutritious meals through a mobile meals program for low-income and homeless Clarksville residents. |
| Montgomery | Roxy Productions, Inc. | to support artistic salaries for "Seussical the Musical" at the Roxy Regional Theatre in March/April 2017. |
| Overton | Spay Neuter Incentive Program - Overton County (SNIP-OC) | to spay/neuter the pets of senior citizens, unemployed and low income residents of Overton County |
| Pickett | Good Neighbors Theater, Inc. | to providee children's summer drama/vocal camps, produce theatrical/musical productions that educate, enrich the lives and involve residents from this distressed area |
| Pickett | PAWS of Dale Hollow | to provide spay/neuter assistance to low income residents' companion animals in our community. |
| Putnam | Exchange Club/Stephens Center | provide child abuse and neglect prevention through in-home visitation, support, and education for 30 Spanish-speaking first- time & teen parents |
| Putnam | Genesis House, Inc. | to provide transitional housing with supportive services in our Lodge Program for survivors of domestic and sexual violence. |
| Putnam | Helping Hands of Putnam County | to provide utility assistance to low income families and families experiencing a crisis in Putnam County. |
| Putnam | Humane Society of Putnam County | to spay or neuter 200 pets belonging to low income families in the Upper Cumberland. |
| Putnam | Putnam County Senior Citizens | to provide a healthy breakfast choice at the Senior Citizens Center. Some senior's sole meal is lunch. |
| Robertson | Greater Faith Community Action Corp. | to sustain the feeding capacity of the Master's Table Soup Kitchen in Springfield, Tennessee. |
| Rutherford | Boys and Girls Clubs of Rutherford County | for the Our?? Great Futures Program which aims to prepare our Junior Staff members for their future after high school. |
| Rutherford | Center for the Arts/City-County Cultural Arts Commission | to provide arts education to the youth of Rutherford County. |
| Rutherford | Doors of Hope | to provide wrap-around services for our Phase 1 female clients immediately after they leave incarceration and/or residential drug rehabilitation. |
| Rutherford | Elders First Adult Day Services dba Mindful Care | to preserve independence and prevent institutionalization for 20 cognitively impaired older adults, while providing support and respite for their caregivers. |
| Rutherford | Ferrell Hollow Farm Senior Horse Sanctuary | to provide hay to meet the forage aspect of the dietary needs of 15 special needs senior horses. |
| Rutherford | Greenhouse Ministries | to provide consistent and free basic healthcare access, screenings, and advocacy to the underserved community of Murfreesboro and surrounding counties. |
| Rutherford | Jesse C. Beesley Animal Humane Foundation | to provide care and kindness to animals through affordable spay/neuter services and education about responsible pet ownership. |
| Rutherford | Kymari House, Inc. | to provide court-ordered supervised visitation services for 100 children separated from their parents due to abuse, neglect or family conflict. |
| Rutherford | Murfreesboro Symphony Orchestra/Tennessee Philharmonic Orchestra | to educate students in the art of symphonic music through school visits and free concerts with professional musicians. |
| Rutherford | Read to Succeed | to provide literacy events for children and adults to encourage reading and improve all types of literacy skills. |
| Rutherford | Smyrna-LaVergne Food Bank | to provide healthier food supports and critically needed dairy and protein to 1850 low-income children and families in Rutherford County. |
| Rutherford | Special Kids | to provide job and life skills training for young adults with special needs through Special Kids' Camp Ability. |
| Rutherford | You Can Make It Home Ownership Center Inc | to provide comprehensive homeownership education to 220 low income households preparing them for sustainable, long-term homeownership. |
| Smith | Smith County Help Center | to improve the nutritional value by the increase of our food boxes per family members. |
| Sumner | Friends of the Hendersonville Arts Council | to produce an affordable arts after school program for underserved children in low income public schools. |
| Sumner | Gallatin CARES | to offer short-term emergency food and clothing relief to those in need in Gallatin and Sumner County. |
| Sumner | Jonah's Journey | to provide training to better equip caregivers as they prepare for the unique needs of caring for a foster child. |
| Sumner | Salvus Center, Inc. | to continue to expand the hours and increase the number of cleanings and tooth extractions in our Dental Clinic |
| Sumner | Sumner County CASA | to recruit, train, and support community volunteers to advocate for the abused and neglected children of Sumner County. |
| Sumner | Sumner Spay Neuter Alliance | to provide 250 free spay/neuter surgeries and vaccinations to cats and dogs belonging to residents of Portland, Bethpage and Westmoreland. |
| Sumner | Sumner Teen Center | to teach 25+ teen boys and girls aged 13-18 how to cook healthy meals for themselves. |
| Sumner | VSA Arts Tennessee | to work with 120 young people with and without disabilities to create a piece of public art. |
| Warren | Children's Advocacy Center for the 31st Judicial District | to provide child abuse prevention education and outreach directly to members of the Hispanic/Latino communities within the 31st District. |
| Warren | Families in Crisis, Inc. | to provide services to survivors of domestic/sexual violence by providing them with resources to become safe, independent, healthy and self-sufficient. |
| Warren | Main Street McMinnville | to provide a performing arts conservatory for elementary and middle school children in Warren County. |
| Warren | PAULS Clinic Inc. | to sterilize 200 pets that reside in low-income households. |
| White | White County Humane Society Inc | to provide financial assistance to 200 pet owners who could otherwise not afford to have their pets spayed or neutered. |
| Williamson | 2nd Chance 4 Pets | to reduce the number of pets unnecessarily euthanized each year due to the death or incapacitation of their human companions |
| Williamson | Against the Grain, Inc. | to provide Jobs Skills and Reentry services to 30 pre and post individuals held in DCSO, WCSO and CCA facilities |
| Williamson | Bridges of Williamson County | to provide support to individuals who are seeking legal protection from domestic violence through the judicial system. |
| Williamson | BrightStone | to help adult senior citizens who must provide full-time care to dependent adult children with intellectual or developmental disabilities (ID). |
| Williamson | Good Neighbor Foundation | to provide re-entry needs to 60 females...medical, rent, clothing, food, health, etc |
| Williamson | Graceworks Ministries, Inc. | to provide rental or utility emergency assistance to help 80 families avoid eviction or utility disconnection. |
| Williamson | Hard Bargain Mt. Hope Redevelopment, Inc. | to provide repairs on the homes of 18 low-income and elderly residents in the Hard Bargain neighborhood. |
| Williamson | Harpeth River Watershed Association | to produce interactive watershed education materials and a citizen action field guide to train 700 students in conservation engagement. |
| Williamson | High Hopes, Inc. | to provide much needed curricular and development assessment materials to 100+ preschool students with and without special needs, ages 1-6. |
| Williamson | Make-A-Wish Middle Tennessee | to help grant Matthew's wish to go to the Super Bowl. |
| Williamson | Middle Tennessee Guitar Alliance, Inc. | to provide four free concerts presented by world renowned classical guitarists at Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music in 2017. |
| Williamson | Music City Strings | to inspire members of middle Tennessee underserved communities by providing free music concerts featuring Music City Strings youth performers. |
| Williamson | Refuge Center for Counseling | to provide affordable counseling services to female victims of sexual abuse/trauma, including both individual and Wounded Hearts group counseling sessions. |
| Williamson | Retrieving Independence, Inc. | to support their mission of breeding, training, and placing service dogs |
| Williamson | The Well Outreach, Inc. | to provide supplemental meals for 500 children/youth during the scheduled academic breaks to provide coverage throughout the 2016-2017 school year |
| Williamson | United Way of Williamson County | to help at risk students improve their reading and math skills. |
| Williamson | WAVES Inc. | to provide job skills training and job placement to adults with disabilities in 12 Tennessee counties. |
| Williamson | Williamson Co CASA, Inc. | to provide a trained advocate for 100% of abused or neglected children ages 0-5 involved in the juvenile court |
| Williamson | Williamson Co Literacy Council | to teach non-English speaking Hispanic adults how to write, speak and understand English. |
| Williamson | Williamson County Library Foundation | to increase the variety of materials available for teens so they see the teen room as safe, welcoming, and feel ownership. |
| Williamson | Williamson County Youth Orchestra | for music professionals to conduct technical skills class for smaller instrument sections of junior and senior orchestras. |
| Wilson | Community Homeless Outreach & Support/The Brooks House | to provide preventive and corrective physical/dental/vision care and necessary medications for residents as they prepare to re-enter the workforce. |
| Wilson | Country K-9 Rescue, Inc. | to prevent the next generation of unwanted, homeless animals through spaying and neutering family pets and free roaming cats. |
| Wilson | Down Syndrome Association of Middle TN | to provide critically-needed information, education and support to Spanish-speaking families who have a child/adult with Down syndrome. |
| Wilson | Historic Lebanon tomorrow Inc. | to revitalize Lebanon's historic Public Square and surrounding neighborhoods: using historic preservation for positive economic impact. |
| Wilson | Mt. Juliet-West Wilson Co. Senior Citizens Service Ctr. | to offer an indoor gardening option for seniors to grow their own produce/food through the use of garden towers. |
| Wilson | New Leash on Life/Humane Assn of Wilson Co. | to provide spay/neuter assistance to cats and dogs of owners in need of assistance and free roaming cats when possible |
| Wilson | Prospect Inc. | to provide Job Skills Training and Supported Employment for ten adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities |
| Wilson | Wilson County Black History Committee | to secure, preserve, restore, and functionally adapt our circa 1827 Pickett Chapel into a black history, arts, and cultural venue. |
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 wellbeing of citizens through valuable programs and innovative services.
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