Nashville International Center for Empowerment

http://www.empowernashville.org

 

Mission

To ensure refugees and immigrants achieve their full potential now and for generations to come.

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Grants

Grant Year Amount Program Name Program Area Description
2018 $25,000 Youth Impact Program education Learn more

The Youth Impact Program supports academic achievement for elementary, middle, and high school New American students throughout the school year and summer-break. With the goal of helping refugee and immigrant students graduate high school and pursue further education, the program focuses on increasing English language proficiency and advancing academic success.
2017 $25,000 Youth Impact Program education Learn more

The Youth Impact Program seeks to directly engage elementary, middle and high school new arrival refugee and immigrant students during the school-year and summer break through academic enhancement programming. The program focuses on increasing English language proficiency to improve academic achievement, ultimately leading to high school graduation and continuing education.
2015 $20,000 Youth Impact Program education Learn more

The Youth Impact Program (YIP) is a multi-phase program that seeks to directly engage at-risk elementary, middle and high school students during the academic year and summer through academic enhancement programming. YIP focuses on increasing English proficiency to attain academic improvement, ultimately leading to high school graduation and college admission.

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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