Martha O’Bryan Center

http://www.marthaobryan.org

 

Mission

On a foundation of Christian faith, the Martha O’Bryan Center empowers children, youth, and adults in poverty to transform their lives through work, education, employment and fellowship.

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Grants

Grant Year Amount Program Name Program Area Description
2018 $75,000 MOBC Academic Student Union Post Secondary Success Pipeline education Learn more

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.
2017 $75,000 Academic Student Union Post-Secondary Success Pipeline education Learn more

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.
2016 $80,000 Academic Student Unions education Learn more

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.
2015 $79,000 Academic Student Unions education Learn more

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.

100 Taylor Street, A-20
Nashville, TN 37208
(615) 385-1006

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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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