Nashville Public Education Foundation

https://nashvillepef.org/

 

Mission

Every Nashville child should have access to great public education that prepares them fully for college, work and life. NPEF makes strategic investments and convenes the community around accelerated improvement.

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Grants

Grant Year Amount Program Name Program Area Description
2017 $100,000 Nashville Early Literacy Strategy: Phase 1 education Learn more

Co-convened by the NPEF, the NPL, Mayor Barry, and Dr. Joseph, the NLC released the Blueprint for Early Childhood Success. The BPECS represents the work of stakeholders who coalesced around a citywide plan to double 3rd-grade reading proficiency; including 29 recommendations and new strategies to advance outcomes for kids.
2017 $20,000 Nashville Early Literacy Strategy education Learn more

The NPEF seeks to increase the number of students reading at grade level by the end of third grade from 34% to 75%. This will be done through better alignment of community, governmental and district resources and a more comprehensive approach to early literacy on par with national best practices.
2016 $16,000 Blue Ribbon Teacher Awards and Director Search education Learn more

To support the Blue Ribbon Teacher Awards and the MNPS Director Search
2016 $10,000 Literacy Landscape Audit and Research education Learn more

To support a landscape analysis of Nashville’s literacy efforts.
2015 $5,000 Blue Ribbon Teacher Awards other Learn more

To support the Blue Ribbon Teacher Awards.

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Nashville, TN 37208
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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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