Middle Tennessee Council, Boy Scouts of America

 

Mission

To prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetime by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law.

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Grants

Grant Year Amount Program Name Program Area Description
2018 $25,000 Scoutreach Program Initiatives for Low Income Youth in Davidson County marginalized youth Learn more

Scoutreach programs are the Council’s outreach efforts to extend life-skills training and values based education to low-income youth from mostly single family homes and lacking adult guidance, hence needing Scouting’s benefit and values the most. Scoutreach programs improve the lives of the youth who are subject to economic hardships.

2017 $35,000 Scoutreach Program Initiatives for Low Income Youth in Davidson County marginalized youth Learn more

Scoutreach programs are the Council’s outreach efforts to extend life-skills training and values based education to low-income youth who are unable to benefit the values of Scouting. The Scoutreach programs improve the lives of the youth who are subject to economic hardships.

2015 $50,000 Scoutreach Program marginalized youth Learn more

The Scoutreach Program involves at risk youth from urban and rural areas throughout middle Tennessee in the Scouting Program who must have direct support from outside their families’ resources to participate. Youth involved will learn life skills, leadership skills, respect for peers & adults, and the value of community service.

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]