CommunityNashville

 

Mission

CommunityNashville is dedicated to fighting bias, bigotry, and racism while expanding tolerance and diversity. CommunityNashville promotes respect and understanding among all races, religions, and cultures through education and advocacy.

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Grants

Grant Year Amount Program Name Program Area Description
2017 $5,000 Building Bridges marginalized youth Learn more

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.

2016 $3,000 Building Bridges marginalized youth Learn more

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.

2015 $3,000 44th Annual Human Relations Award Dinner other Learn more

To support the 44th Annual Human Relations Award Dinner

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]