New Partner Spotlight: Nashville Freedom Schools

The Maddox Charitable Fund is happy to partner with the Nashville Freedom Schools this year. The Freedom Schools provides a six-week summer literacy program to African-American, Latinx, and biracial children from at-risk communities. With the theme, “I Can Make a Difference,” young scholars engage with books and enrichment activities that celebrate Black and Latinx heritage and learn from young Servant Leaders that mirror their own life experiences.

The Nashville Freedom Schools would love to have you volunteer this summer! Volunteer opportunities include: reading aloud to youth, mentoring junior interns, and helping to lead classes. If you’re interested in these and other ways to help, please check out their volunteer opportunities.

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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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