Monroe Harding

http://www.monroeharding.org

 

Mission

To step in as family would to ensure that youth who are in/transitioning out of foster care have safe homes, loving guidance, and an opportunity to grow into independent adults.

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Grants

Grant Year Amount Program Name Program Area Description
2018 $35,000 Foster Care and Transitional Age Services marginalized youth Learn more

Monroe Harding is the only agency in Middle Tennessee that provides a continuum of care for current and former foster youth. We seek to prevent youth from entering care, reunify youth with their birth families when possible, and ensure that youth in/exiting care have resources to lead successful, independent lives.
2017 $50,000 Core Mission Support marginalized youth Learn more

To support programming and general operations.
2016 $55,000 Year-Round Educational Enrichment for Youth in Cooperative Living marginalized youth Learn more

Utilizing a Trauma & Resiliency Informed Care (TRIC) model, CL provides youth with 24-hour adult support, role models, education, life skills and job preparation. 32 boys at a time (ages 16 – 18) live cooperatively in 4 cottages, with an average length of stay of approximately 5.2 months.
2015 $55,000 Year-Round Educational Enrichment for the Cooperative Living Program marginalized youth Learn more

Utilizing the Trauma Informed Resiliency Focused Care model, Cooperative Living (CL) provides youth with 24-hour adult support, role models, education, life skills and job preparation. 24 boys at a time (ages 16 – 18) live cooperatively in 3 cottages, with an average length of stay of approximately 5 months.

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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