Wayne Reed Christian Childcare Center

 

Mission

The mission of Wayne Reed Christian Childcare Center is “To provide hope for the families we serve.”

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Grants

Grant Year Amount Program Name Program Area Description
2018 $5,000 Pre-K Summer Enrichment Program education Learn more

Our Pre-K classroom is a Metro Public Schools classroom that is funded by Metro during the school year. Our Summer Pre-K Enrichment Program reinforces what the children have learned, adds enrichment activities, and provides a safe place for low income families to leave their children.

2017 $7,500 Pre-K Summer Enrichment Program education Learn more

Our Pre-K classroom is a Metro Public Schools classroom that is funded by them during the school year. Children in the program learn basic skills that will prepare them for school. The continuation of the program during summer months is important, so the children retain what they have learned.

2016 $10,000 Summer Enrichment Program education Learn more

The Wayne Reed Center’s Pre-K program provides a safe place where low income families can leave their children, knowing they will be loved and provided a high quality curriculum that will prepare them for school. This request is for our Pre-K Summer Enrichment Program.

2015 $10,000 Summer Enrichment for At-risk Pre-schoolers education Learn more

During June and July, our program enriches the previous nine months’ curriculum with daily volunteers who read, talk with, and do crafts and other special activities. We have on-site visits from the Nashville library puppets, the zoo, farm animals, and a train. Family fun nights are offered for entire families.

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]