2025 Listening Meetings

At Maddox, 2025 is a year of asking questions: 

  • What do our youth and environmental partners need from us at this moment in time? 
  • What does the community need Maddox to be? 
  • How can Maddox challenge itself live more fully into our justice and liberation values? 
  • Where will our new leader, Jen Bailey, lead us in service to Middle Tennessee? 
  • How is the legacy of Dan and Margaret Maddox embodied 26 years after their deaths? 

These questions require us to lean into learning, exploration and listening to the experts—our nonprofit partners.  In anticipation of strategic planning, the Maddox Fund will hold listening meetings with nonprofit leaders.  We invite nonprofits to sign up now and come ready to guide the Maddox Fund’s future. 


Sign up for a listening meeting here

All listening meetings will be held from 11:00-1:00 in the Maddox office at 100 Taylor Street 37208.  Lunch will be served. Please let us know if you have any dietary restrictions/preferences.  Executive Directors can also sign up for a one-on-one with Jen Bailey in March using this link.

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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).

email Jen: [email protected]