Nashville Waterways Consortium

https://rivivenashville.org/

 

Mission

The Nashville Waterways Consortium is the combined effort of five influential conservation groups to inspire communities, policymakers and civic leaders to act on ensuring clean water and healthy streams for current and future generations of Nashvillians.  The five partners include the Harpeth Conservancy, the Nature Conservancy, the Tennessee Environmental Council, Richland Creek Watershed Alliance, and the Cumberland River Compact, whom also functions as the fiscal agent.

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Grants

Grant Year Amount Program Name Program Area Description
2017 $190,000 Core Mission Support wildlife conservation Learn more

To support programming and general operations.
2017 $7,500 Core Mission Support wildlife conservation Learn more

To support programming and general operations.
2016 $190,000 Core Mission Support wildlife conservation Learn more

To support programming and general operations.

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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