Hands on Nashville

 

Mission

Hands On Nashville’s mission is to meet community needs through volunteerism.

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Grants

Grant Year Amount Program Name Program Area Description
2021 $45,000 wildlife conservation Learn more

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.

2020 $45,000 wildlife conservation Learn more

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.

2019 $45,000 wildlife conservation Learn more

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.

2018 $50,000 AmeriCorps Program wildlife conservation Learn more

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.

2017 $50,000 Core Mission Support marginalized youth Learn more

To support programming and general operations.

2016 $50,000 Core Mission Support marginalized youth Learn more

To support programming and general operations.

2015 $65,000 Youth Engagement and Leadership Program marginalized youth Learn more

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.

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]