Harvest Hands Community Development Corporation

 

Mission

Harvest Hands is a catalyst for Christ-centered, wholistic community development working alongside our neighbors to further education, healthy living, spiritual formation, and economic development in South Nashville.

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Grants

Grant Year Amount Program Name Program Area Description
2018 $15,000 Out of School Programs education Learn more

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).

2016 $15,000 Harvest Hands Elementary Program education Learn more

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.

2015 $15,000 Harvest Hands Elementary Program education Learn more

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.

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]