Hands on Nashville

 

Mission

Hands On Nashville’s mission is to meet community needs through volunteerism.

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Grants

Grant Year Amount Program Name Program Area Description
2021 $45,000 wildlife conservation Learn more

The Hands On Nashville (HON) AmeriCorps Program engages community-focused people in yearlong terms of service building capacity for Nashville-area nonprofits. For the 2021-2022 service term, 30 members will serve 19 local nonprofits, including HON and nine other organizations that partnered with the Maddox Fund in 2019 and/or 2020.

2020 $45,000 wildlife conservation Learn more

Hands On Nashville (HON)’s AmeriCorps Program matches members – adults who commit to a year-long term of public service – with nonprofit partners, building organizational capacity and meeting community needs through service. 2019-2020 members will serve at HON and Middle Tennessee environmental organizations.

2019 $45,000 wildlife conservation Learn more

Hands On Nashville (HON)’s AmeriCorps Program matches members – adults who commit to a year-long term of public service – with nonprofit partners, building organizational capacity and meeting community needs through service. 2019-2020 members will serve at HON and Middle Tennessee environmental organizations.

2018 $50,000 AmeriCorps Program wildlife conservation Learn more

Hands On Nashville (HON)’s AmeriCorps Program matches members – adults who commit to a year-long term of public service – with community partners, building organizational capacity to meet needs through volunteerism. A partnership with Volunteer Tennessee makes this program possible.

2017 $50,000 Core Mission Support marginalized youth Learn more

To support programming and general operations.

2016 $50,000 Core Mission Support marginalized youth Learn more

To support programming and general operations.

2015 $65,000 Youth Engagement and Leadership Program marginalized youth Learn more

Hands On Nashville will provide 6,500 opportunities to engage youth in 13,000 service-learning hours during out-of-school time. To achieve this, HON’s staff will lead youth in two programmatic areas: 1) Urban Agriculture and 2) Youth Volunteer Corps. At least 70% of HON’s youth program participants/beneficiaries will be economically disadvantaged.