Directions

Our mission is to better our community through partnerships that improve the lives of young people and further wildlife conservation.

Our Core Values

  • We champion just and equitable systems and policies
  • We honor the voices of marginalized communities
  • We believe education and knowledge are transformative
  • We engage our work with humility and curiosity
  • We manage our resources with integrity and transparency
  • We celebrate courageous leadership
  • We embrace the shared responsibility to better our community and protect our wildlife habitats

Our Organizational Culture

The Maddox Fund strives to create an environment where all people and planet flourish.
Through observation, we have found that nature teaches us what healthy systems look like and what it takes to sustain them. Maddox looks to nature to teach us how to work and live together.

Culture Statement

Equity North Stars

The Maddox North Stars emerged out of our 2021 Equity Audit.  They serve as guides for how we operate as an organization and as a means of assessing our work on a regular basis.  Use the toggles below to see the different aspects of our work.

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The Maddox Fund envisions a world in which people and planet flourish together in regenerative systems free from oppression and threat—all the while knowing that we are far from the world to which we aspire.

The Maddox Fund will continue its learning journey toward justice and liberation in the years ahead through:

  • Centering the voices of our partners and community
  • Strategic Planning 
  • Redesigning Grantmaking

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Nashville, TN 37208
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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).

email Jen: [email protected]