McNeilly Center for Children Inc.

 

Mission

McNeilly Center provides high quality, affordable early care and education for low-income children ages 6 weeks – 5 years, and further provides parenting education and social services for families.

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Grants

Grant Year Amount Program Name Program Area Description
2018 $30,000 Pre-K Program education Learn more

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.

2017 $30,000 McNeilly Center for Children Pre-K Program education Learn more

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.

2016 $30,000 Pre-K Program education Learn more

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.

2015 $46,000 McNeilly Center for Children Pre-K Program education Learn more

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.

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]