Nashville Civic Design Center

http://www.civicdesigncenter.org

 

Mission

Our mission is to elevate the quality of Nashville’s built environment and to promote public participation in the creation of a more beautiful and functional city for all.

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Grants

Grant Year Amount Program Name Program Area Description
2018 $10,000 Design Your Neighborhood marginalized youth Learn more

Design Your Neighborhood (DYN) is an education initiative within NCDC that engages youth in how the world is built around them. Through classroom curriculum and summer internships, DYN teaches the principles of community design and civic engagement in order to empower youth to have a voice in shaping their city.
2017 $10,000 Citizenship in Action marginalized youth Learn more

Citizenship in Action (CIA) is a program that seeks to invest the next generation of informed citizens in how the world is built around them. Through classroom academic enrichment and youth internship programs, CIA will teach youth the principles of community design and civic engagement.

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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