10-Year Anniversary Grant Recipients

Joseph Gutierrez

For our 10-Year Anniversary, we celebrated by creating special grant opportunities for young people.

We awarded 13 scholarships to young nonprofit professionals in Middle Tennessee to pursue professional development at the Center for Nonprofit Management.  The scholarship recipients were:

  • Ameshica Linsey, East Nashville Hope Exchange
  • Chelsea Cahill, Book ‘Em
  • Dan Fitzgerald, Harpeth Conservancy
  • Diarese George, Tennessee Educators of Color Alliance
  • Janelle Wommer, Operation Andrew Group
  • JC Torres, Conexion Americas
  • Jessica Holman, Harvest Hands
  • Jomilla Newsom, Tennessee Environmental Council
  • Katie Kuhl, Crossroads Campus
  • Lacey Lane, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Foundation
  • Laura Herrell, Martha O’Bryan Center
  • Nicholas Weaver, 100 Black Men
  • Violet Gau, Big Brothers Big Sisters & Monroe Harding

These young nonprofit professionals will be able to use these scholarships on CNM’s workshops and certificate programs.

We also made three $10,000 grants for nonprofit organizations to create fellowship positions that gave young people the chance to be meaningfully engaged in nonprofit work.  Three organizations were selected: 100 Black Men, FiftyForward, and Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC).

We thank everyone that submitted application to both these opportunities.  We will continue to think critically about to support our emerging nonprofit leaders.

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Jen Bailey is the Executive Director of the Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund, bringing her deep experience in community-based leadership, philanthropy, and movement-building to the organization.

Jen is the Founder of Faith Matters Network, a national Womanist-led organization accompanying spiritually-grounded leaders on their journey to heal themselves and their communities. Since its inception, Faith Matters Network has served over 25,000 leaders through its programs and initiatives. She is Co-Founder of The People’s Supper, a global initiative that has hosted over 2,000 gatherings in 135 communities to foster conversation and collective healing across lines of difference.

Committed to advancing social change through philanthropy and nonprofit leadership, Jen serves on the boards of the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, the Fetzer Institute, and The Healing Trust, where she is the Board Chair.

An Ashoka Fellow, New Pluralist Field Builder, Aspen Ideas Scholar, On Being Fellow, and Truman Scholar, Jen holds degrees from Tufts University and Vanderbilt University Divinity School, where she was awarded the Wilbur F. Tillett Prize for accomplishments in the study of theology. Her work has been featured by On Being with Krista Tippett, CBS This Morning, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and more. She is also the author of To My Beloveds: Letters on Faith, Race, Loss, and Radical Hope (Chalice Press, 2021).

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