The 100 KINGS is a leadership development program designed to help black male youth develop the knowledge, skills and confidence necessary to succeed in school and become significant community contributors. Beginning in middle school through high school, the 100 KINGS is a multi-year program.

The 100 KINGS is a leadership development program designed to help black male youth develop the knowledge, skills and confidence necessary to succeed in school and become significant community contributors. Beginning in middle school through high school, the 100 KINGS is a multi-year program.

The 100 KINGS is a leadership development program created and funded by the 100 Black Men of Middle Tennessee, Inc. The program is designed to help black male youth develop the knowledge, skills and confidence necessary to succeed in school and become significant community contributors.

The 100 KINGS program began in the fall of 2003. A holistic program designed to provide academic enrichment and experiential learning projects for middle and high school males throughout Middle Tennessee on a year-long basis.

For a future arboretum at the Adventure Science Center

Annually, more than 45,000 students and teachers visit on school trips. The Science Center will offer conservation-based education experiences in a new outdoor setting to visiting school groups. Through this program, free conservation-based programming will be provided to students from MNPS schools with greater than 50% economically disadvantaged.

Art2STEM introduces middle school girls to Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math (STEM) careers by tapping into their natural attraction to art. This strategy is tipping the scale for middle school girls, taking them from little interest in STEM careers to enrollment in STEM academies in high school.

ABC’s Social justice, Equity, Advocacy and Leadership Initiative (ABC-SEAL) is a new, unique program designed to attract, educate, and develop the next generation of indigenous, community-based, equity-informed community leaders using a curriculum continuum linking undergraduate coursework, secondary school enrichments and civic education for youth in and/or from proximate low-income neighborhoods.

This proposal extends the reach and sustainability of the SEAL Initiative currently funded by the Maddox Fund. Attracting, educating and developing the next generation of indigenous, community-based, equity-informed leaders from low-income backgrounds by countering systemic economic disadvantage with one year of full scholarship funding for two SEAL students at ABC.

ABC’s Social justice, Equity, Advocacy and Leadership Initiative (ABC-SEAL) is a new, unique program designed to attract, educate, and develop the next generation of indigenous, community-based, equity-informed community leaders using a curriculum continuum linking undergraduate coursework, secondary school enrichments and civic education for youth in and/or from proximate low-income neighborhoods.

AMAC’s Youth Leadership Program for high school and college students will start its second year for the 2020-2021 school year. Participants will learn leadership skills through leadership workshops, issues based discussions, organizing opportunities and volunteer opportunities.

AMAC’s Youth Leadership Program for high school and college students will start its second year for the 2020-2021 school year. Participants will learn leadership skills through leadership workshops, issues based discussions, organizing opportunities and volunteer opportunities.

To support AMAC’s work in battling Islamaphobia

AMAC will hire an intern to engage youth in designing and testing a Pilot Youth Leadership Program for Muslim students in high school and college.

Operation School Bell provides new standard school attire (two pairs of pants, two polo shirts, a long sleeve shirt, three pairs of socks, three pairs of underwear, and a belt) to economically disadvantaged elementary students attending Metro Nashville Public Schools.

Operation School Bell provides new standard school attire (2 pairs of pants, 2 polo shirts, a long sleeve shirt, 3 pairs of socks, 3 pairs of underpants, and a belt) to economically disadvantaged elementary students attending Metro Nashville Public Schools.

Taking kids and mentally challenged adults into the outdoors, teaching them the different types of fish and woodland animals with our bone and fur collection.

Taking kids and mentally challenged adults into the outdoors, teaching them the different types of fish and woodland animals with our bone and fur collection

While providing fishing events, we teach the children how to supply food through fishing, how to rig, maintain, repair, and use fishing equipment and tackle, Education about our environment, water and boat safety. How to appreciate the great outdoors and how to preserve it.

The Bridges to Belmont Academic and Social Support Program provides foundational academic and social guidance to Bridges to Belmont Scholarship recipients as they transition from high school to Belmont University. These services include dedicated academic support staff, mentoring, and service learning opportunities.

The Bridges to Belmont Academic and Social Support Program provides foundational academic and social guidance to Bridges to Belmont Scholarship recipients as they transition from high school to Belmont University. These services include dedicated academic support staff, mentoring, and service learning opportunities.

The Presidential Scholars program is a merit-based scholarship and leadership development program intended to produce future generations of community leaders. Presidential Scholars will engage in an intense, four-year service-learning and leadership development experience that partners them with a Middle Tennessee agency currently supported by the Maddox Charitable Fund.

The Presidential Scholars program is Belmont’s most prestigious, coveted award. This merit-based scholars program provides for tuition, books, fees, and room and board throughout the recipients’ college career. This outstanding program empowers Belmont to be a worthy contender as it recruits the best and the brightest students to its campus.

The Presidential Scholars program is Belmont’s most prestigious, coveted award. This merit-based scholars program provides for tuition, books, fees, and room and board throughout the recipients’ college career. This outstanding program empowers Belmont to be a worthy contender as it recruits the best and the brightest students to its campus.

The Presidential Scholars program is Belmont’s most prestigious, coveted award. This merit-based scholars program provides for tuition, books, fees, and room and board throughout the recipients’ college career. This outstanding program empowers Belmont to be a worthy contender as it recruits the best and the brightest students to its campus.

The Stars of Bethlehem Program is a comprehensive year-round program for North Nashville children and youth in Kindergarten -8th Grade. The program provides a safe, supervised environment for these at-risk youth, providing academic tutoring and enrichment to ensure educational success, mentoring to ensure social success and health and fitness.

To cover added expenses related to COVID-19

The Stars of Bethlehem Program is a comprehensive year-round program for North Nashville children and youth in Kindergarten -8th Grade. The program provides a safe, supervised environment for these at-risk youth, providing academic tutoring and enrichment to ensure educational success, mentoring to ensure social success and health and fitness.

To cover added expenses related to COVID-19

The Stars of Bethlehem Program is a comprehensive year-round program for North Nashville children and youth in Kindergarten -8th Grade. The program provides a safe, supervised environment for these at-risk youth, providing academic tutoring and enrichment to ensure educational success, mentoring to ensure social success and health and fitness.

The Stars of Bethlehem Program is a comprehensive year-round program for North Nashville children and youth in Kindergarten -8th Grade. The program provides a safe, supervised environment for these at-risk youth, providing academic tutoring and enrichment to ensure educational success, mentoring to ensure social success and health and fitness.

The Stars of Bethlehem Program is a comprehensive year-round program for North Nashville children and youth in Kindergarten -8th Grade. The program provides a safe, supervised environment for these at-risk youth, providing academic tutoring and enrichment to ensure educational success, mentoring to ensure social success and health and fitness.

To support programming and general operations.

To support programming and general operations.

To support programming and general operations.

To support programming and general operations.

To support programming and general operations.

To support programming and general operations.

To support programming and general operations.

To support general programming and operations

To support general programming and operations.

To cover additional facilities expenses related to COVID-19

To support general programming and operations

Book’em wants and is being asked to expand our Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) program to some of MNPS’ pilot schools as part of the Blueprint/Literacy Collaborative. Our request: fund one new school (or equivalent) for RIF and support a fund development position on a short-term basis to build our capacity.

RIF builds economically disadvantaged children’s literacy skills, which are essential for academic success. Elementary children select books to own, cherish, enjoy and build their home libraries. They are also exposed to RIF volunteers as positive community role models, who help motivate them to love reading and books.

RIF builds under-served and underprivileged children’s literacy skills, which are essential for academic success. Elementary children select books for themselves to cherish, enjoy and build their home libraries. They are also exposed to RIF volunteers as positive community role models, who help motivate them to love reading and books.

RIF builds underserved and underprivileged children’s literacy skills, which are essential for academic success. Elementary children select books of their very own to cherish, enjoy and build home libraries. They are also exposed to RIF volunteers as positive community role models, who help motivate them to love reading and books.

To support programming and general operations.

To support programming and general operations.

To help incentivize staff retention and recruitment during the pandemic

This program combines tutoring by certified teachers, innovative academic support software, and weekly one-on-one academic mentoring and intensive case management to ensure high drop-out risk Club members progress on time to the next grade level each year and graduate high school ready for college, trade school, military, or employment.

This program combines tutoring by certified teachers, innovative academic support software, and weekly one-on-one academic mentoring and intensive case management to ensure high drop-out risk Club members progress on time to the next grade level each year and graduate high school ready for college, trade school, military, or employment.

This program combines tutoring by certified teachers, innovative academic support software, and weekly one-on-one academic mentoring and intensive case management to ensure high drop-out risk Club members progress on time to the next grade level each year and graduate high school ready for college, trade school, military, or employment.

This program combines tutoring by certified teachers, innovative academic support software, and weekly one-on-one academic mentoring and intensive case management to ensure high drop-out risk Club members progress on time to the next grade level each year and graduate high school ready for college, trade school, military, or employment.

This program combines tutoring by certified teachers, innovative academic support software, and weekly one-on-one academic mentoring and intensive case management to ensure high drop-out risk Club members progress on time to the next grade level each year and graduate high school ready for college, trade school, military, or employment.

We seek to continue to empower our members by emphasizing outcomes that ensure academic success. As part of academic enrichment programming, we provide members support/skill develop/encouragement needed to stay in school, improve performance and graduate. This includes helping youth develop the skill of setting and achieving goals and lifelong learning.

The purpose of the Youth Dream Mini-Grant Program is to distribute money from larger grants and charitable donations to teachers in Cannon County schools to allow the awarded teacher(s) to purchase needed, reusable classroom items otherwise unaffordable on the school’s allotted budget.

The purpose of the Youth Dream Mini-Grant Program is to distribute money from larger grants and charitable donations to local school teachers in Cannon County to allow the awarded teacher(s) to purchase needed, reusable classroom items otherwise unaffordable on the school’s allotted budget.

Refugee and Immigrant Students Empowered (RISE) is an after school program for refugee and immigrant middle school students in the Metro Nashville Public School system. Students have both expanded academic time, as well as the opportunity to be exposed to unique enhancements that increase skills and self-esteem.

To support general programming and operations

To support general programming and operations

To support general programming and operations.

CISTN embeds dedicated Site Coordinators inside Metro Nashville Public Schools to identify students who are chronically absent; establish strategic plans for the school and students; and broker needed services. Whether it’s empowering families, counseling or providing food, CISTN Site Coordinators surround low-income youth students with a community of support.

CISTN embeds dedicated Site Coordinators inside seven Metro Nashville public schools to identify students at-risk of dropping out; establish strategic plans for the school and students; and broker needed services. Whether it’s tutoring, eyeglasses, counseling or food, CISTN Site Coordinators surround disadvantaged K-12 students with a community of support.

To support 8 site coordinators, embedded in 8 Nashville public schools, who will identify students at-risk of dropping out; establish strategic plans for the schools and students; and broker needed services. Without CISTN in the schools, thousands of Nashville’s most vulnerable students would likely face dropping out or other dire circumstances.

Every July, CRC provides new backpacks, school supplies, clothing and personal hygiene items to 600 extreme at-risk children so they can start the new school year on an equal footing with their more fortunate peers.

Delivered in partnership with Oasis Center, Building Bridges provides a variety of rich, educational experiences around tolerance and understanding. The programs allow young people in Metro Nashville to explore their identity, foster socially-conscious attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors and use their voices to create stronger communities that value diversity and inclusion.

Delivered in partnership with Oasis Center, Building Bridges is a spectrum of opportunities for young people in Metro Nashville to explore their identity, foster socially-conscious attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors, and use their voices and skills to create stronger communities that value diversity and inclusion.

To support the 44th Annual Human Relations Award Dinner

Conexion Americas’ afterschool programming supports students from 5th grade through the completion of their postsecondary degree. Our NAZA sites promote academic and enrichment activities. Escalera promotes economic mobility and educational attainment.

Conexion Americas’ afterschool programming supports students from 5th grade through the completion of their postsecondary degree. Our NAZA sites promote academic and enrichment activities. Escalera promotes economic mobility and educational attainment. 370 students from 6 MNPS schools in Southeast Nashville will participate in our programming during our 2020-2021 fiscal year.

To support DACA recipients

The Escalera College Access and Success program promotes economic mobility for immigrant and refugee youth by increasing educational attainment and access to information about professional careers. 330 Glencliff, Overton, Cane Ridge, and Antioch High School students and Escalera graduates will participate in our program during Conexion Americas’ 2019-2020 fiscal year.

The “Escalera: Taking Steps to Success” College Access & Success Program promotes economic mobility for immigrant and refugee youth by increasing educational attainment and access to information about professional careers. 280 Glencliff, Overton, Cane Ridge, and a 4th high school (TBD) will participate in Early Escalera (9th-10th) and Escalera (11th-12th).

The “Escalera: Taking Steps to Success” College Access & Success Program promotes economic mobility for immigrant and refugee youth by increasing educational attainment and access to information about professional careers. 180 Glencliff, Overton, and Antioch High School Students (9th-12th grade) will participate in Early Escalera (9th-10th) and Escalera (11th-12th).

The “Escalera: Taking Steps to Success” college access program promotes economic mobility for immigrant and refugee youth by increasing educational attainment and access to information about professional careers. 110 Glencliff and Overton High School students (9th-12th grade) will participate in Escalera and Early Escalera.

To provide park space for Pre-K and low income youth

The “Escalera: Taking Steps to Success” college access program promotes economic mobility for immigrant and refugee youth by increasing educational attainment and access to information about professional careers. 35 Glencliff High School students will participate in Escalera from the spring semester of their junior year until high school graduation.

To support programming and general operations.

Crossroads uses a social enterprise model to provide job-training and employment for young people who face poverty and homelessness. Our participants receive intensive case management and have the opportunity to experience the healing power of the human-animal bond through caring for homeless animals, greatly enhancing the impact of our program.

To support repair of damages caused by tornado

Crossroads uses a social enterprise model to provide job-training and employment for young people who face poverty and homelessness. Our participants receive intensive case management and have the opportunity to experience the healing power of the human-animal bond through caring for homeless animals, greatly enhancing the impact of our program.

To support our job-training/employment program for at-risk young adults and to help us increase organizational capacity as we prepare for a major expansion over the next few years that will allow us to significantly increase the number of young people we employ and house.

To support our job-training and employment program which serves at risk young people, providing job-readiness, job-skills and a first job for young people who lack access to the workplace. We enhance the benefits of the program through individualized case management and a loving and supportive community.

To support programming and general operations.

To support programming and general operations.

To support programming and general operations.

To support the Youth Climate Summit

To support programming and general operations.

To support programs and general operations.

To support programming and general operations.

This program works to remove fish and macro-invertebrate barriers in Middle Tennessee’s streams. Many of the low head dams are not needed and impair water quality and stream health. We are seeking funding to build upon prior Maddox funding to re-establish a free flowing Mill Creek system..

To support the planning of the water collaborative

DTC’s “Raising the Barre” after-school program uses certified teachers, teaching artists, volunteers, and community partnerships, to provide homework support and movement based, academic enrichment for grades K-4 at Park Avenue Elementary.

Wetland Wonders, a Discovery Center education initiative, includes field studies, camps, and public programs designed to educate visitors about water quality and conservation. Through hands-on activities that link knowledge, inquiry, and action, youth discover properties of water, sustainability, and the equation of water health while also nurturing their natural curiosity.

Wetland Wonders includes field studies, camps, and public programs designed to educate youth about water quality and conservation. This program uses hands-on activities that link knowledge, inquiry, and action which allow youth to discover properties of water, sustainability, and the equation of water health while also nurturing their natural curiosity.

Children get most of their education outside of a formal environment. Discovery Center provides education enrichment opportunities to elementary school students through on-site field studies, mobile lab outreach visits, and our weekly Explorer’s Club. These opportunities are provided free of charge to economically disadvantaged students through our outreach initiative.

DU is restoring 340 acres of moist-soil habitat at Cross Creeks NWR to provide an additional 340,000 pounds of food for ducks, geese and other wildlife at the refuge. Improved habitat will not only help waterfowl reach the breeding grounds in a healthier condition, but also will increase wildlife-viewing opportunities.

DU is restoring 340 acres of moist-soil habitat at Cross Creeks NWR to provide an additional 340,000 pounds of food for ducks, geese and other wildlife at the refuge. Improved habitat will not only help waterfowl reach the breeding grounds in a healthier condition, but also will increase wildlife-viewing opportunities.

Reading is essential for a child’s success, but the barriers faced by children with difficulty reading often outweigh their desire to read. ENHE seeks to bridge the achievement gap among low income students and their wealthier peers by providing year-round literacy support to families, including an intensive six-week summer program.

Reading is essential for a child’s success, but the barriers faced by children with difficulty reading often outweigh their desire to read. ENHE seeks to bridge the achievement gap among low income students and their wealthier peers by providing year-round literacy support to families, including an intensive six-week summer program.

Reading is essential for a child’s success, but the barriers faced by children with difficulty reading often outweighs their desire to read. ENHE seeks to bridge the achievement gap among low income students and their wealthier peers by providing year-round literacy support to families, including an intensive six-week summer program.

The ability to read and write effectively is the bedrock upon which all learning is built. The ENHE Literacy program seeks to bridge the achievement gap among low income students and their wealthier peers by providing year-round literacy support to students and their parents, including an intensive six-week summer program.

Reading is an essential skill and also indicates future success in life. The ENHE Literacy program seeks to bridge the achievement gap among low-income students and their more affluent peers. We accomplish this mission by providing year-round literacy support to students and their parents, including an intensive 6-week summer program.

Reading is the foundation for children to succeed in life and have a positive future. East Nashville Hope Exchange provides critical support (summer and school year programs) to low-income children affected by the achievement gap and seeks to ensure all children can read regardless of their socio-economic background.

To support the Summer Literacy Program at the East Nashville Hope Exchange.

The Spot is an after-school program for middle & high school girls from Edgehill. The Spot serves as a place for young women of color who are disproportionately affected by poverty, lack of access, and trauma as a safe space to be, and to grow stronger academically, emotionally, and socially.

The Spot is an after-school program for middle & high school girls from Edgehill. The Spot serves as a place for young women of color who are disproportionately affected by poverty, lack of access, and trauma as a safe space to be, and to grow stronger academically, emotionally, and socially.

The Spot is an after-school program for middle & high school girls from Edgehill. The Spot serves as a place for young women of color who are disproportionately affected by poverty, lack of access, and trauma as a safe space to be, and to grow stronger academically, emotionally, and socially.

In Edgehill, poverty and crime can be daily experiences. When a parent’s addiction, incarceration or health problems impede girl’s school and life success, ENP’s “The Spot” becomes a community of trust. As a Promise Zone leader, ENP proposes to expand The Spot as a model for neighborhoods addressing similar problems.

We provide transformational leadership/management talent to key education organizations, placing diverse, multidisciplinary professionals in influential roles outside the classroom and supporting and retaining them to deliver excellent results for students.

Our P.R.E.S.S. Forward summer enrichment program serves children K5-12 years of age, primarily in the North Nashville area. Purpose, Responsibility, Education, Safety and Success are integrated to achieve a balance between engaging and challenging children so that we can ensure they are ready to undertake the challenges of life.

To support students’ immediate needs due to the impact of COVID-19

To support programs and general operations.

Equal Chance for Education has supported 306 DACA students at 15 colleges and universities in Tennessee who do not have equitable access to higher education because of their legal status. Through tuition support and intensive mentoring, ECE is providing an opportunity to achieve the American Dream through a college degree.

Equal Chance for Education has supported 214 DACA students at 15 colleges and universities in Tennessee who do not have equitable access to higher education because of their legal status. Through tuition support and intensive mentoring, ECE is providing an opportunity to achieve the American Dream through a college degree.

Through tuition assistance, intensive mentoring, networking, and career guidance, ECE is cultivating young leaders of our community through a college degree. ECE currently supports 148 DACA students at 8 Tennessee universities who are ineligible for financial aid, student loans, and in-state tuition rates because of their legal status.

The Teen Program at Family Reconciliation Center is dedicated to helping teens whose lives have been impacted by incarceration. After school services that are offered to the teens are individual and group counseling, tutoring/school credit recovery help, life skills training, woodshop and other activities.

The goal of the Pre-K Program is to prepare four-year-old children who are at-risk of academic failure because of economic status rich learning opportunities and enrichment activities. The program is a United Way classroom with a free MNPS component and an income-based before and after care program.

The goal of the Fannie Battle Pre-K Program is to prepare four-year-old children who are at-risk of academic failure for success in kindergarten and beyond by offering rich learning opportunities. The Program consists of three main components: Metro Pre-K, Before/After/Summer Care and Read to Succeed.

Friends Learning in Pairs (FLIP) matches adults age 55+ with struggling students in grades k-4 for one-on-one tutoring intervention in math and reading. FLIP operates in 30 schools in Williamson and Davidson counties. FLIP is a volunteer placement within FiftyForward’s Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP).

Friends Learning in Pairs (FLIP) matches adults age 55+ with struggling students in grades k-4 for one-on-one tutoring intervention in math and reading. FLIP operates in 30 schools in Williamson and Davidson counties. FLIP is a volunteer placement within FiftyForward’s Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP).

Friends Learning in Pairs (FLIP) matches adults age 55+ with struggling students in grades k-4 for one-on-one tutoring intervention in math and reading. FLIP operates in 30 schools in Williamson and Davidson counties. FLIP is a volunteer placement within FiftyForward’s Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP).

Friends Learning in Pairs (FLIP) matches adults age 55+ with struggling students in grades k-4 for one-on-one tutoring intervention in math and reading. FLIP operates in 30 schools in Williamson and Davidson Counties. FLIP is a volunteer placement within FiftyForward’s Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP).

Friends Learning in Pairs (FLIP) pairs trained senior adult tutors with at-risk students in Davidson and Williamson County elementary schools. Tutor/student pairs work together once a week for 30 minutes throughout the school year.

Friends Learning in Pairs (FLIP) matches adults age 55+ with struggling students in grades k-4 for one-on-one or small group tutoring intervention in math and reading. FLIP operates in 30 schools in Williamson and Davidson Counties. FLIP is a volunteer placement within FiftyForward’s Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP).

Friends Learning in Pairs (FLIP) matches adults age 55 and over with struggling students in grades k-4 for one-on-one tutoring intervention in math and reading. FLIP operates in 30 schools in Williamson and Davidson Counties. FLIP is a volunteer placement within FiftyForward’s Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP).

Franktown outdoors is a program offered by Franktown to youth between the ages of 6-18. Youth have opportunities for age-appropriate outdoor activities including camping, hiking, conservation, fishing, and hunting. Each opportunity is treated as a learning experience and youth learn valuable life skills while being out in nature.

Franktown outdoors is a program offered by Franktown to youth between the ages of 6-18. Youth have opportunities for age-appropriate outdoor activities including camping, hiking, conservation, fishing, and hunting. Each opportunity is treated as a learning experience and youth learn valuable life skills while being out in nature.

Franktown Outdoors is a program that seeks to build a natural love for the outdoors, while supporting conservation efforts with inner city youth. The program teaches youth hunting, archery, fishing, survival skills, as well as conservation efforts.

The Franktown Outdoors program rewards youth interested in wildlife conservation, hunting, fishing, hiking, etc. with opportunities to learn new skills and enjoy all that nature has to offer. This program is rewards based and our inner city youth must meet certain criteria to participate.

The Franktown Hunt/Fish Club is a Wildlife Appreciation Rewards Program used as a vehicle to reward our interested youth who work very hard within our various entrepreneurial based skills-building programming and other character building efforts.

The purpose of the Hunt and Fish Club is to expose inner-city youth to wildlife and outdoor sports, while educating them on the proper respect and appreciation for both. The activities are made available to these youth as an incentive for dedication to academic achievement, civic involvement and character development.

Friends seeks to create a seasonal invasive species strike team, comprised of 18-21 year-old young adults (aging out of foster care), that could serve as a model beyond Nashville. This innovative project will provide valuable education and skills while restoring and protecting one of our region’s treasured resources.

To support programs and general operations.

To support programs and general operations.

To support programs and general operations.

Achievement in the Making (AIM) works with children on literacy, computer skills and math along with basic life skills. This program reaches out to socio-economically needy youth to give them a solid baseline in education for their future. The purpose is to teach them and encourage student self-sufficiency.

Achievement in the Making (AIM) works with children on literacy, computer skills, and math along with basic life skills. This program will reach out to the socio-economically needy youth to give them solid base in education for the future. The purpose is to teach and encourage student self-sufficiency.

Achievement in the Making (AIM) works with children on literacy, computer skills, and math along with basic life skills. This program will reach out to the socio-economically needy youth to give them solid base in education for the future. The purpose is to teach and encourage student self-sufficiency.

Gentry’s proactively focuses on improving reading and math abilities of K-6th grade students through extended learning opportunities and enrichment courses that reinforce school day learning through homework assistance, intensive tutoring in common core areas, and summer enrichment. Students are provided standards-based, scheduled evaluations to assess gains and effectiveness of interventions.

STEM Keys will help students from low-income families unlock opportunities for their future through academic activities designed to improve their math and literacy skills. Certified educators will tutor 250 students in small groups after school and in the summer with strategic, engaging lessons based on individual needs.

The L.E.A.D. program provides an authentic Girl Scout experience to girls who come from lower socioeconomic backgrounds and high-risk urban and rural communities. Trained community volunteers serve as troop leaders and facilitate valuable instruction and mentoring. Girls complete established curriculum, earn badges, and experience Girl Scout programs and camps.

The L.E.A.D. program provides an authentic Girl Scout experience to girls who come from lower socioeconomic backgrounds and high-risk urban and rural communities. Trained community volunteers serve as troop leaders and facilitate valuable instruction and mentoring. Girls complete established curriculum, earn badges, and experience Girl Scout programs and camps.

The L.E.A.D. program provides an authentic Girl Scout experience to girls who come from lower socioeconomic backgrounds and high-risk urban and rural communities. Trained community volunteers serve as troop leaders and facilitate valuable instruction and mentoring. Girls complete established curriculum, earn badges, and experience Girl Scout programs and camps.

L.E.A.D underserved girls from lower socioeconomic families and geographic areas participate become Girl Scouts and participate in traditional educational and enjoyable activities. Trained volunteers serve as troop leaders and facilitate valuable instruction and mentoring. Girls complete established curricula and earn badges by experiencing Girl Scout programs and camps.

Through L.E.A.D., underserved girls from low-income areas learn and have fun in their own Girl Scout Troops. Trained volunteers serve as troop leaders and offer valuable mentoring experience. Girls earn badges, participate in programs and camp, and grow in courage, confidence and character to make the world a better place.

Through L.E.A.D., underserved girls from low-income areas learn and have fun in their own Girl Scout Troops. Trained volunteers serve as troop leaders and offer valuable mentoring experience. Girls earn badges, participate in programs and camp, and grow in courage, confidence and character to make the world a better place.

To support programs and general operations in Middle Tennessee.

Since 2004, Governor’s Early Literacy Foundation (GELF), formerly Governor’s Books from Birth Foundation (GBBF), has supported the Imagination Library program in TN, ensuring all preschool children enrolled in the program receive one book in the mail each month, at no cost to the family and regardless of income.

Governor’s Books from Birth Foundation (GBBF) has supported Tennessee’s Imagination Library program since 2004, ensuring that all Tennessee children, birth to five years old, have access to one high quality age-appropriate book mailed to their home each month at no cost to the family and regardless of income.

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library in Tennessee has been supported and sustained by Governor’s Books from Birth Foundation (GBBF) since 2004, ensuring that all Tennessee children, birth to five years old, have access to receive one age-appropriate book monthly, at no cost to the family and regardless of income.

The Governor’s Books from Birth Foundation (GBBF) supports and sustains Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library program statewide in Tennessee. Since 2004, TN’s Imagination Library has provided one age-appropriate book each month to enrolled children between birth and age five, at no cost to the family and regardless of income.

For eleven years, Tennessee’s Imagination Library has delivered high-quality, age-appropriate books to enrolled children, birth to five, in all 95 counties, at no cost to families and without regard to socio-economic status. The Governor’s Books from Birth Foundation provides a grant to each county covering 50% of its book costs.

For the past decade, Tennessee’s Imagination Library has delivered high-quality, age-appropriate books to enrolled children, ages birth to five in all 95 counties at no cost to families and without regard to socio-economic status. The Governor’s Books from Birth Foundation provides a 50% funding match for book costs statewide.

The STEAM Rollers Afterschool & Summer Camp Programs will create hands on enrichment opportunities as students explore the tenets of STEAM via innovative activites, research projects, field learning opportunities and the design/presentation of projects. Both programs will allow for material manipulation and a wide array of experiences across many spectrums.

The GME Educational Program will continue to provide high quality early learning services to preschool children with a focus on increasing the capacity for greater educational outcomes for at risk underserved children; thereby, reducing risk for remedial education and grade repetition.

This program provides fun and safe opportunities for at-risk youths to experience nature in a way that will provide them with the practical knowledge and skills to partake of nature’s bounty AND preserve the wilderness for future generations.

The Hands On Nashville (HON) AmeriCorps Program engages community-focused people in yearlong terms of service building capacity for Nashville-area nonprofits. For the 2021-2022 service term, 30 members will serve 19 local nonprofits, including HON and nine other organizations that partnered with the Maddox Fund in 2019 and/or 2020.

Hands On Nashville (HON)’s AmeriCorps Program matches members – adults who commit to a year-long term of public service – with nonprofit partners, building organizational capacity and meeting community needs through service. 2019-2020 members will serve at HON and Middle Tennessee environmental organizations.

Hands On Nashville (HON)’s AmeriCorps Program matches members – adults who commit to a year-long term of public service – with nonprofit partners, building organizational capacity and meeting community needs through service. 2019-2020 members will serve at HON and Middle Tennessee environmental organizations.

Hands On Nashville (HON)’s AmeriCorps Program matches members – adults who commit to a year-long term of public service – with community partners, building organizational capacity to meet needs through volunteerism. A partnership with Volunteer Tennessee makes this program possible.

To support programming and general operations.

To support programming and general operations.

Hands On Nashville will provide 6,500 opportunities to engage youth in 13,000 service-learning hours during out-of-school time. To achieve this, HON’s staff will lead youth in two programmatic areas: 1) Urban Agriculture and 2) Youth Volunteer Corps. At least 70% of HON’s youth program participants/beneficiaries will be economically disadvantaged.

Harpeth Conservancy’s water quality science and policy expertise will focus on creating and implementing two critical programs, a TN statewide conservation policy platform and an urban streams program both mitigate pre-existing environmental challenges and to bring in new, younger, and more diverse leadership from our rapidly growing cities.

Harpeth Conservancy’s water quality science and policy expertise will focus on critical community engagement, leadership building, and capacity-building to enable reinvigorated collaborations to restore water quality across an entire river system– the State Scenic Harpeth in the greater Nashville region—and throughout middle Tennessee and the State.

To support programming and general operations.

To support programming and general operations.

To support programming and general operations.

HRWA will convene a Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) of water quality professionals that will oversee a comprehensive plan to conduct water quality monitoring and assessment, and use the results to drive fish habitat and river restoration priorities. A citizen science component will be incorporated into each phase of the project.

To support the water collaborative planning

Harvest Hands out of school programs exist to provide access to positive mentors, homework assistance, and leadership development training for low-income urban youth in South Nashville. Annually, we serve 100 students pre-kindergarten through eighth grade in after school programs (August through May) and summer programs (June through July).

The elementary program hosts 35 students five days per week and is built on a wholistic, research-based structure and curriculum focused on learning. The program’s main strategies are: 1) increase skills in reading and math 2) increase knowledge base and enhance skills in spiritual, social and emotional learning.

The elementary program hosts 45 students five days per week and is built on a holistic, research-based structure and curriculum focused on learning. The program’s main strategies are: 1) increase skills in reading and math 2) increase knowledge base and enhance skills in spiritual, social and emotional learning.

To support programming and general operations.

To support programming and general operations.

To support programming and general operations.

To support programming and general operations.

Our goal is to address the achievement gap and prevent summer slide by helping students stay at their grade levels rather than lose academic skills over the summer. Students spend six weeks each summer on our campus engaged in a program that blends high quality academics with cultural enrichment.

Horizons is a high-quality learning experience outside of the traditional school year that supports low-income students over the course of their rising 1st-8th academic years. Students attend a 6-week summer program on our campus and receive additional support throughout the school year.

IFM Prep Academy provides Saturday, extended school day and summer sessions focused on early exposure to ACT testing, ACT preparation classes, academic tutoring in English, reading, science and math, financial literacy training and college readiness workshops that helps students move from high school to post secondary success.

A request for $20,000 will be applied towards classroom programming in Houston County and at Rosebank Elementary in East Nashville during the 2016-17 school year. Through this request, we intend to meet our 2016-17 goal of reaching up to 828 students in both Houston County and Rosebank Elementary.

JA’s in-class programming teaches K-12 students about financial literacy, business and economic fundamentals, career exploration, and workplace competencies. JA’s highly interactive programs are presented by volunteers from the community who expose students to a ‘real-world’ perspective, serve as positive role models, and mentor to students. Detailed curriculum at http://www.janash.com/classroom-programs/program-details.

For more than five decades, KDCDC has offered an excellent and affordable pre-Kindergarten program to families in our community who need it most – the ‘working poor’. Our staff works hard to ensure each child has the academic and social/emotional readiness skills they need for success in school and beyond.

For 51 years, KDCDC has offered an excellent and affordable pre-Kindergarten program to the families in our community who need it most – the ‘working poor’. Our staff works hard to ensure each child has the academic and social/emotional readiness skills they need for success in school and beyond.

For five decades, KDCDC has offered an excellent and affordable pre-Kindergarten program to the families in our community who need it most – the ‘working poor’. Our staff works hard to ensure each child has the academic and social/emotional readiness skills they need for success in school and beyond.

For nearly five decades, KDCDC has offered an excellent and affordable pre-Kindergarten program to the families in our community who need it most – the ‘working poor’. Our staff works hard to ensure each child has the academic and social/emotional readiness skills they need for success in school and beyond.

KIPP Through College is a strategic “K-16” partnership with KIPP alumni, families, and community partners. KTC’s mission is preparing KIPPsters for success in high school and college by supporting high school graduation, preparing for college costs, building college knowledge, and supporting the college application process, career exploration and college success.

KIPP Through College is a strategic “K-16” partnership with KIPP alumni, families, and community partners. KTC’s mission is preparing KIPPsters for success in high school and college by supporting high school graduation, preparing for college costs, building college knowledge, and supporting the college application process, career exploration and college success.

KIPP Through College is a strategic “K-16” partnership with KIPP alumni, families, and community partners. KTC’s mission is preparing KIPPsters for success in high school and college by graduating high school, preparing for college costs, building college knowledge and the college application process, career exploration and supporting college success.

A team of well trained educators will work with small groups of children in Hard Bargain for seven weeks during the summer of 2015–four days a week for two hours a day. The focus of the program will be on reading remediation.

To support programming and general operations.

To support programming and general operations.

To support programming and general operations.

To support programming and general operations.

Lipscomb’s Pionero Scholars is an academic scholarship and outreach program that is a “grow your own” teacher pipeline for MNPS graduates. Six students are selected each year, with preference given to those from underrepresented backgrounds. We are selecting our third cohort this spring, with 12 students currently enrolled at Lipscomb.

Pionero is an academic merit scholarship program that is building a pipeline of bilingual MNPS graduates who attend Lipscomb’s award-winning teacher preparation program and return to teach in MNPS schools. Six students from underrepresented backgrounds are selected each year. The second cohort will be selected this spring.

Lipscomb’s Pionero Scholars Program is an academic merit scholarship program that is building a pipeline of bilingual MNPS graduates who attend Lipscomb’s award-winning teacher preparation program and return to teach in MNPS schools. Beginning in fall 2016, six MNPS graduates per year will receive this scholarship.

MOBC Academic Student Unions provide academic case management and college preparation services for underserved high school youth at Stratford and Maplewood High, assisting youth with life-planning, ACT preparation, and college attainment activities, helping build support networks and patterns of success. Students in college access Post-Secondary Success persistence support in college.

MOBC Academic Student Unions provide academic case management and college preparation services for underserved high school youth at Stratford and Maplewood High, assisting youth with life-planning, ACT preparation, and college attainment activities, helping build support networks and patterns of success. Students in college access Post-Secondary Success persistence support in college.

MOBC Academic Student Unions provide academic case management and college preparation services for at-risk high school youth at Stratford and Maplewood High. Our ASU transitional coaches act as coaches and mentors, assisting youth with life-planning, ACT preparation, and college attainment activities, helping build support networks and patterns of success.

MOBC Academic Student Unions provide academic case management and college preparation services for at-risk high school youth at Stratford and Maplewood High. Our ASU transitional coaches act as coaches and mentors, assisting youth with life-planning, ACT preparation, and college attainment activities, helping build support networks and patterns of success.

McNeilly provides high quality, affordable early care and education for 60 low-income and at-risk Pre-Kindergarten children, ages 4 and 5, at the McNeilly Meridian St. site. We offer three Pre-K classrooms, including one Metro Nashville Public Schools classroom, and two that participate in the United Way Read to Succeed program.

McNeilly Center provides high quality, affordable early care and education for 60 low-income and at-risk Pre-Kindergarten children, ages 4 and 5, at the McNeilly/Meridian preschool site. We offer three Pre-K classrooms, including one Metro Nashville Public Schools classroom, and two that participate in the United Way Read to Succeed program.

McNeilly Center provides high quality, affordable early education programs for 89 low-income and at-risk Pre-K children, age 4 and 5, in two locations (McNeilly @ Meridian and Nashville Child Center). We offer five classrooms – two Head Start, two that participate in Read to Succeed, and a Metro Pre-K classroom.

McNeilly Center provides high quality, affordable early education programs for 92 low-income and at-risk Pre-K children, age 4 and 5, in two locations (McNeilly @ Meridian and Nashville Child Center). We offer six classrooms – two Head Start, two that participate in Read to Succeed, and a Metro Pre-K classroom.

Scoutreach programs are the Council’s outreach efforts to extend life-skills training and values based education to low-income youth from mostly single family homes and lacking adult guidance, hence needing Scouting’s benefit and values the most. Scoutreach programs improve the lives of the youth who are subject to economic hardships.

Scoutreach programs are the Council’s outreach efforts to extend life-skills training and values based education to low-income youth who are unable to benefit the values of Scouting. The Scoutreach programs improve the lives of the youth who are subject to economic hardships.

The Scoutreach Program involves at risk youth from urban and rural areas throughout middle Tennessee in the Scouting Program who must have direct support from outside their families’ resources to participate. Youth involved will learn life skills, leadership skills, respect for peers & adults, and the value of community service.

Monroe Harding is the only agency in Middle Tennessee that provides a continuum of care for current and former foster youth. We seek to prevent youth from entering care, reunify youth with their birth families when possible, and ensure that youth in/exiting care have resources to lead successful, independent lives.

To support programming and general operations.

Utilizing a Trauma & Resiliency Informed Care (TRIC) model, CL provides youth with 24-hour adult support, role models, education, life skills and job preparation. 32 boys at a time (ages 16 – 18) live cooperatively in 4 cottages, with an average length of stay of approximately 5.2 months.

Utilizing the Trauma Informed Resiliency Focused Care model, Cooperative Living (CL) provides youth with 24-hour adult support, role models, education, life skills and job preparation. 24 boys at a time (ages 16 – 18) live cooperatively in 3 cottages, with an average length of stay of approximately 5 months.

Design Your Neighborhood (DYN) is an education initiative within NCDC that engages youth in how the world is built around them. Through classroom curriculum and summer internships, DYN teaches the principles of community design and civic engagement in order to empower youth to have a voice in shaping their city.

Citizenship in Action (CIA) is a program that seeks to invest the next generation of informed citizens in how the world is built around them. Through classroom academic enrichment and youth internship programs, CIA will teach youth the principles of community design and civic engagement.

Summer 2018 scholars will be taught using the Children’s Defense Fund literacy curriculum. They will also engage in enrichment activities led by Nashville area video/web professionals and create a live-to-tape video broadcast and podcasts for presentation via Nashville Freedom Schools’ website and Facebook page, featuring firsthand interviews with Civil Rights giants living in Nashville, with scholars’ contributing original scripts, music, poetry, commentary and spoken word.

The Youth Impact Program supports academic achievement for elementary, middle, and high school New American students throughout the school year and summer-break. With the goal of helping refugee and immigrant students graduate high school and pursue further education, the program focuses on increasing English language proficiency and advancing academic success.

The Youth Impact Program seeks to directly engage elementary, middle and high school new arrival refugee and immigrant students during the school-year and summer break through academic enhancement programming. The program focuses on increasing English language proficiency to improve academic achievement, ultimately leading to high school graduation and continuing education.

The Youth Impact Program (YIP) is a multi-phase program that seeks to directly engage at-risk elementary, middle and high school students during the academic year and summer through academic enhancement programming. YIP focuses on increasing English proficiency to attain academic improvement, ultimately leading to high school graduation and college admission.

Co-convened by the NPEF, the NPL, Mayor Barry, and Dr. Joseph, the NLC released the Blueprint for Early Childhood Success. The BPECS represents the work of stakeholders who coalesced around a citywide plan to double 3rd-grade reading proficiency; including 29 recommendations and new strategies to advance outcomes for kids.

The NPEF seeks to increase the number of students reading at grade level by the end of third grade from 34% to 75%. This will be done through better alignment of community, governmental and district resources and a more comprehensive approach to early literacy on par with national best practices.

To support the Blue Ribbon Teacher Awards and the MNPS Director Search

To support a landscape analysis of Nashville’s literacy efforts.

To support the Blue Ribbon Teacher Awards.

BBTL equips teachers, parents and children with the skills and tools needed to foster reading readiness at home and ensure future school success.

NAZA is a system of free, high-quality afterschool/summer programs that enhance students’ social/emotional and academic growth. NAZA provides professional development, quality coaching and evaluations to network partners.

BBTL equips teachers, parents and children with the skills and tools needed to foster reading readiness at home and ensure future school success.
NAZA is a system of free, high-quality afterschool/summer programs that enhance students’ social/emotional and academic growth. NAZA provides professional development, quality coaching and evaluations to network partners.

BBTL is a free, award-winning literacy program developed in partnership with early childhood educators and performance artists. Centered on the library’s literature-based marionette performances, BBTL equips teachers, parents and children with the skills and tools needed to foster reading readiness at home and lay the groundwork for future school success.

To support programming and general operations.

To support programming and general operations.

To support programming and general operations.

Nations Academy provides targeted literacy interventions and homework assistance 4 days a week for socio-economically needy youth who are learning English as a second or other language. Nations Academy also provides an intensive summer reading program and enrichment experiences.

Nations Academy provides targeted reading tutoring and homework assistance 4 days a week for socio-economically needy youth who are learning English as a second or other language. Nations Academy also provides an intensive summer reading program and connects children to summer enrichment events.

Nations Academy provides targeted reading tutoring and homework assistance 4 days a week for socio-economically needy youth who are learning English as a second or other language. Nations Academy also provides an intensive summer reading program and connects children to summer enrichment events.

Nations Academy provides targeted reading tutoring and homework assistance 5 days a week for socio-economically needy youth who are learning English as a second or other language. Nations Academy also provides an intensive summer reading program and connects children to summer enrichment events.

To support programming and general operations.

To support programming and general operations.

To support programming and general operations.

The Mill Creek Watershed conservation strategies program is part of a multi-year, multi-agency effort to plan, design and implement a green infrastructure overlay to improve water quality and aquatic habitat and influence the decision making of city planners and developers in this projected high-growth area of Davidson County.

To support the water collaborative planning.

To support programming and general operating.

To support programming and general operations.

Funding was provided to support the work of eight organizations collaborating on serving homeless youth.

Funding was provided to further support the work of eight organizations collaborating on serving homeless youth.

To support programming and general operations.

Funding was provided to support the work of eight organizations collaborating on serving homeless youth.

To support the Gateway for Growth Challenge work with immigrant youth.

To support programming and general operations.

United4Hope brings together faith-based organizations and public schools to see Nashville’s students thrive and our communities transformed by serving in four primary roles: student support, family engagement, staff encouragement, and in-kind contributions. The primary focus is on supporting MNPS Reading and Math Literacy initiatives and social-emotional support programs.

United4Hope brings together faith-based organizations and public schools to see Nashville’s students thrive and our communities transformed.

United4Hope connects church volunteers with high poverty, underachieving MNPS schools to tutor/mentor students to increase literacy and math achievement using best practices implemented by MNPS reading and math specialists. Other activities include providing support and supplies to teachers, hosting activities to engage parents in education, and offer training to volunteers.

To support programming and general operations.

PENCIL Reading Partner volunteers are improving the skills of Metro Nashville’s Public School students in the subject of highest priority, Literacy, as a specific recommendation in the Nashville Chamber’s Education Report Card in 2016, with a priority to engage community partners to ensure early grade literacy.

By mobilizing community members as Math and Reading Partners in elementary and middle schools, PENCIL is improving the skills of Nashville’s public school students in two subjects that are key to academic success and also top the list of priorities outlined in Nashville’s 2015 Chamber Education Report Card.

The Reading Partners and Math Partners programs enlist the participation of community volunteers as trained tutors to improve the skills of Nashville public school students in reading and math, two subjects which are key to academic success and eventual graduation.

PtS educates and empowers Nashville’s under-resourced students through hands-on, garden-based learning in partnership with MNPS and public libraries. Our curriculum aligns gardening to language, literacy, math and science standards, as well as social-emotional learning. Students and teachers work side-by-side in the garden, fostering a strong sense of community and connection.

PTM’s Mt. Nebo after-school satellite site will serve 20 at-risk students (K-4th grade) in the Preston Taylor community for one year. The requested monies will be used to help fund the After-school Program Site Director and a Reading Specialist as well as provide quality materials for reading instruction.

PTM will develop an after-school satellite site to serve 60 at-risk students (K-12th grade) at St. Luke’s Community House for one year. The requested monies will help fund three Reading Specialists to lead in reading development in the context of a mentoring and afterschool program.

PTM will launch a new after-school satellite site to serve 20 at-risk students (K-4th grade) in the Preston Taylor community for one year. The requested monies will be used to help fund the After-school Program Site Director and a Reading Specialist as well as provide quality materials for reading instruction.

Project Transformation’s afterschool literacy development program connects the potential of children with the mentorship of college-age young adults. Components of the program include activity-based literacy intervention, homework assistance, nutrition education, and healthy decision-making. Programs will be offered in three strategic low-income Nashville neighborhoods, serving 25 elementary students each.

Project Transformation’s afterschool literacy development program connects the potential of underserved children with the mentorship of college-age young adults. Components of the program include activity-based literacy intervention, homework assistance, nutrition education, and healthy decision-making. Programs will be offered in three strategic low-income Nashville neighborhoods, serving 25 elementary students each.

Project Transformation’s afterschool literacy development program connects the potential of underserved children with the mentorship of college-age young adults. Components of the program include activity-based literacy intervention, homework assistance, nutrition education, and healthy decision-making. Programs will be offered in three strategic low-income Nashville neighborhoods, serving 25 elementary students each.

Project Transformation’s afterschool literacy development program connects the potential of underserved children with the mentorship of college-age young adults. Components of the program include activity-based literacy intervention, homework assistance, nutritional education, and healthy decision-making. Programs will be offered in three strategic low-income Nashville neighborhoods, serving 25 elementary students each.

To support programming and general operations.

To support programming and general operations.

To support programming and general operations.

To support the water collaborative planning.

Rocketown Productions is an innovative afterschool program providing youth development and academic enrichment opportunities by way of project-based learning exercises, life skills and career development activities, counseling services, and healthy meals. Rocketown Productions serves forty-five teens each day, five days per week, throughout the school year.

SEEDS provides Safe Haven’s (SHFS) youth with a well-rounded and culturally-sensitive experience in the summer. Homeless youth experience problems in health, social development, and education. Summer months present these children additional challenges of boredom and falling behind their housed peers. SEEDS gives these youth the opportunity to thrive.

SEEDS provides Safe Haven’s (SHFS) youth with a well-rounded and culturally-sensitive experience in the summer. Homeless youth experience problems in health, social development, and education. Summer months present these children additional challenges of boredom and falling behind their housed peers. SEEDS gives these youth the opportunity to play and grow.

SEEDS provides Safe Haven’s youth with a well-rounded and culturally-sensitive experience in the summer. Homeless youth experience problems in health, social development, and education. Summer months present these children additional challenges of boredom and falling behind their housed peers. SEEDS gives these youth the opportunity to play and grow.

SEEDS provides Safe Haven’s youth with a well-rounded and culturally-sensitive experience in the summer. Homeless youth experience problems in health, social development, and education. Summer months present these children additional challenges of boredom and falling behind their housed peers. SEEDS gives these youth the opportunity to play and grow.

To further enhance learning instruction in reading and math. Additionally, we are requesting for additional funds to assist launching a summer satellite site.

A grant to further invest in our experienced teaching staff would support our students’ long-term success. This grant would build upon success from this past year and seek to further enhance learning instruction in reading and math.

A grant to further invest in our experienced teaching staff would support our youth’s long-term success. This grant would build upon success from this past year and seek to further enhance learning instruction in reading and math.

Adding a full-time Academic Coordinator in 2014 enabled Salama to make significant strides in program enhancement, enrollment, and program evaluation. A grant to support our experienced teaching staff would bolster the long-term success of our youth by helping us sustain these gains and continue growing in each of these areas.

The BackPack Program provides healthy, easy-to-prepare food to students who would otherwise go hungry on the weekends. Students are selected by teachers and counselors based on need. They receive a bag of food on Fridays to take home for when they do not have access to school lunches.

The BackPack Program provides chronically hungry students with a bag of healthy, easy-to-prepare food to take home with them over the weekend. Each student is selected based on need by teachers and school counselors. Food is discreetly placed in students’ backpacks, giving them adequate nourishment when food may be scarce.

The BackPack Program provides chronically hungry students with a bag of healthy, easy-to-prepare food to take home with them over the weekend. Each student is selected based on need by teachers and school counselors. Food is discreetly placed in students’ backpacks, giving them adequate nourishment when food may be scarce.

The BackPack Program provides chronically hungry students with a bag of healthy, easy-to-prepare food to take home with them over the weekend. Each student is selected based on need by teachers and school counselors. Food is discreetly placed in students’ backpacks, giving them adequate nourishment when food may be scarce.

To support the emergency winter response.

To support programming and general operations.

To support programming and general operations.

Southern Word has been successful building literacy skills and literate identities in low-income communities through the use of writer mentors. There is a continued need to include developing writers who are between the ages of 16 and 24 as part of our teaching teams. This grant will fund their inclusion.

SEAC provides direct advocacy services to children with disabilities in middle Tennessee to help insure that all children receive the individualized and appropriate public education to which they are entitled. By securing more appropriate educational programs for students with disabilities, we can improve educational outcomes and chances for long-term success.

St. Luke’s Youth Education Program educates, empowers and equips 105 pre-K-8th graders with the education and skills they need to be successful. Through partnership with Preston Taylor Ministries and an emphasis on literacy and social and emotional learning, St. Luke’s provides quality care and education opportunities for Nashville students.

The Child Development Program offers care for children in Pre-K. This program provides early educational intervention focusing on literacy and kindergarten readiness. Parents pay for their child’s care based on a sliding-scale tuition fee system to ensure that families have access to affordable child care within their own community.

The Child Development Program offers care for children six-weeks-old to five-years-old. This program provides early educational intervention focusing on literacy and kindergarten readiness. Parents pay for their child’s care based on a sliding-scale tuition fee system to ensure that families have access to affordable child care within their own community.

The St. Luke’s Child Development Program provides underprivileged children with an early literacy education and their parents with access to affordable childcare. Our program begins at age six and carries children through pre-kindergarten before graduating them into local elementary schools.

Our school-based services address the social and emotional barriers to a young person’s success. Our services produce outcomes including increased school attendance and grades, increased youth attachment to school and community, increased individual resilience, and reduced suspensions, expulsions, bullying, violence, delinquency and alcohol and other drug use.

Our school-based services address the social and emotional barriers to a young person’s success. STARS provides the only evidence-based program in the Southeast that positively addresses increased school attendance and grades, increased youth attachment to school and community, increased individual resilience, and reduced suspensions, expulsions, bullying, and violence.

Our school-based services address the social and emotional barriers to a young person’s success. STARS provides the only evidence-based program in the Southeast that positively addresses increased school attendance and grades, increased youth attachment to school and community, increased individual resilience, and reduced suspensions, expulsions, bullying, and violence.

Our school-based services address the social and emotional barriers to a young person’s success. STARS provides the only evidence-based program in the southeast that positively addresses increased school attendance and grades, increased youth attachment to school and community, increased individual resilience, and reduced suspensions, expulsions, bullying, and violence.

The NNA is a collaboration with Metro Nashville Public Schools designed to serve the district’s highest-needs English Language Learners and to provide both leaders and teachers with high quality professional development.

The Nashville International Academy (NIA), a partnership between Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) and STEM Prep Academy, addresses the unique needs of our city’s newcomer students, including both immigrant and refugee children. The overarching goal of NIA is to advance academic achievement and social integration through direct service delivery.

TFA-Nashville is working towards a future when all children have access to an excellent education. We recruit our nation’s most promising leaders through a highly selective admissions process; build a diverse corps of recent college graduates and professionals to teach with a minimum two-year commitment in high-need public schools.

Nashville is at a pivotal moment for K-12 education. Our new mayor, our Chamber of Commerce and our local school system have all identified teacher recruitment as a key lever for improving student achievement. Teach For America looks to continue our successful track record of bringing excellent teachers to Nashville.

Nearly 500 Teach For America alumni, individuals who taught for two years in high-needs schools, live in Nashville. Most are working in education, directly impacting over 10,000 students. With your support, we’ll innovate programming to inspire the leadership of our alumni, leading to tangible positive academic outcomes for Nashville children.

To support professional development for educators of color at DiversifiED 2019.

This grant was made through Conexion Americas, who served as a fiscal agent.

To support programming and general operations.

To support programming and general operations.

To support programming and general operations.

FHRI Year 4 will increased capacity for youth, volunteer, and professional, understanding of wildlife & participation in projects to enhance fish and wildlife habitat. Projects include low-tech, volunteer friendly activities – targeting sediment, the leading cause of water pollution in TN. Projects will be evaluated by trained volunteers and staff.

To support the water collaborative planning.

Camp Illuminate is an innovative day-camp for refugee and immigrant children that will take place for four weeks in July, 2016. Our goal is to address skills that are important for a child to be successful at school, at home, and in their community.

There are massive changes coming for immigrant youth depending on the passage or failure of the DREAM Act: either permanent protection for an estimated 30,000 immigrant youth in Tennessee or the 9,000 current DACA holders become undocumented. We will support youth in the wake of these announcements.

To find messages and messengers that can move individuals who are “conflicted” about immigrant rights to being solidly supportive and inoculated from being pushed in the wrong direction when hit by attacks for anti-immigrant forces.

Tennessee’s rapidly growing population of immigrant youth experience numerous and compounding barriers to their success. Through an empowerment model of service delivery we assist youth in overcoming these barriers, while providing the tools and opportunity they need to become engaged leaders shaping their futures and communities.

To provide Core Mission Support during DACA renewal.

To support the legal work of a bi-lingual immigration attorney helping young people apply for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, Trafficking Visas, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, and Asylum. Our surveys reveal the following about receiving high-quality legal service:
100% better job
100% higher wage
97% less anxiety

To support the salary of one attorney who provides legal advice for immigrant youth, coordinates the legal representation of immigrant youth who are eligible for pro bono services and humanitarian legal relief, and provides direct representation of immigrant youth who are eligible for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJ).

To support legal work (attorney and translator) for immigrant youth with a legal remedy for their immigrant status — namely, unaccompanied minors (Special Immigrant Juvenile Status) and youth who arrived as children, are in compliance with educational requirements and have no serious criminal issues (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals).

TennGreen protects important wildlife habitat using two key strategies: conservation easements on privately-held land and acquisition. On occasion, funding assistance is requested/required by landowners or by public agencies to cover specific costs of this conservation work. TennGreen requests funding to create a Wildlife Habitat Conservation Assistance Fund.

A forested wildlife corridor, identified in Nashville’s Open Space plan, runs in an arc, connecting Beaman Park through Bells Bend to West Meade through Warner Parks to Radnor Lake. This natural landscape provides vital habitat to an array of wildlife and is critical to health and recreation in Davidson County.

This summer program is designed to expose rising 11th and 12th grade students to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) Careers, and help prepare them for the standardized ACT Examination during a two-week period on the campus of Tennessee State University.

To support programming and general operations.

To support programming and general operations.

To support programming and general operations.

To support programming and general operations.

TOYS is a week long outdoor camp that teaches youth about the importance of natural resources and conservation.

Buffalo Ridge Hunter Recruitment Initiative is a unique outreach and educational facility that totals over 1800 acres and incorporates a variety of habitats including a few miles of the buffalo river.

Tennessee Outdoors Youth Summit (TOYS) is an intensive, week-long outdoor education camp for high school students. Participants engage in a long list of outdoor activities such as boating, hunting, archery, photography, forestry, camping, and much more. The program provides expert instruction and emphasizes the importance of natural resources and conservation.

TOYS is an intensive, week-long outdoors education camp for high school students. Participants engage in outdoor activities such as boating, hunting, trapping, archery, photography, forestry, camping, and much more. The program provides expert instruction given by wildlife officers and subject matter experts on the importance of natural resources.

The TOYS program is an intensive, week-long outdoor education camp for high school age students.

Participants engage in a myriad of outdoor activities such as boating, hunting, trapping, archery, photography, forestry, camping and much more. The program provides expert instruction and teaches the importance of natural resources and conservation.

Both Empowered to F.L.Y. and its summer extension program, Rebuilt to F.L.Y aims to overcome risk factors that lead to a loss of classroom time due to attendance/disciplinary issues and social anxiety. This is achieved through social-emotional development in the form of mentoring, training, parent and community engagement, and advocacy.

To support programming and general operations.