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New Partner Spotlight: The FIND Design

This year, the Maddox Charitable Fund will be supporting The FIND Design. The FIND Design strengthens youth achievement and increases the opportunity for success through mentoring, case management, outreach and parent engagement for teens in the Antioch area. During the month of June they are offering a 4-week intensive program for middle and high school girls called, Rebuilt to F.L.Y. The FIND Design also offers programming during the school year aimed at reducing absenteeism and increasing student performance through a partnership with MNPS.

Volunteers are always welcome! Some available volunteer opportunities this summer include, light office duties, field trip chaperones and classroom assistants. If you’re interested in the organization or their volunteer opportunities, check them out on their website or their Giving Matters profile.

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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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