Nashville Freedom School Partnership

 

Mission

We are a “village” of artists, volunteers, college-interns, activists, and parents working summers to boost literacy, cultural pride and understanding, and citizenship among low-income youth of color in grades K-8.

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Grants

Grant Year Amount Program Name Program Area Description
2018 $15,000 We are Freedom School! Our Stories! education Learn more

Summer 2018 scholars will be taught using the Children’s Defense Fund literacy curriculum. They will also engage in enrichment activities led by Nashville area video/web professionals and create a live-to-tape video broadcast and podcasts for presentation via Nashville Freedom Schools’ website and Facebook page, featuring firsthand interviews with Civil Rights giants living in Nashville, with scholars’ contributing original scripts, music, poetry, commentary and spoken word.