Youth Villages

http://www.youthvillages.org

 

Mission

Helping children who have suffered abuse, neglect and/or violence to heal and restoring broken families are at the heart of Youth Villages’ mission to help children and families live successfully.

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Grants

Grant Year Amount Program Name Program Area Description
2016 $10,000 YVLifeSet marginalized youth Learn more

Through the YVLifeSet program, Youth Villages seeks to help vulnerable youth in Middle Tennessee learn skills to become successful and productive adults. Through the work of YVLifeSet’s Educational/Vocational Coordinator, young people will have access to more educational, job readiness and skill-building activities and receive needed wraparound services (basic/urgent needs).
2015 $10,000 Transitional Living Program marginalized youth Learn more

Youth Villages seeks to help more youth in Middle Tennessee (especially the rural areas) learn skills to become successful adults. Through the work of our Transitional Living(TL) program’s Educational/Vocational Coordinator, young people will have access to more educational, job readiness and skill-building activities and receive needed wraparound services (basic/urgent needs).

100 Taylor Street, A-20
Nashville, TN 37208
(615) 385-1006

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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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