Salama Urban Ministries

 

Mission

Salama is committed to improving each child’s life trajectory through Christ-centered academic enrichment, performing arts and character development.

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Grants

Grant Year Amount Program Name Program Area Description
2018 $37,000 The Salama Institute education Learn more

To further enhance learning instruction in reading and math. Additionally, we are requesting for additional funds to assist launching a summer satellite site.

2017 $37,000 The Salama Institute education Learn more

A grant to further invest in our experienced teaching staff would support our students’ long-term success. This grant would build upon success from this past year and seek to further enhance learning instruction in reading and math.

2016 $37,000 Equipping Under-served Youth to Reach Their Potential education Learn more

A grant to further invest in our experienced teaching staff would support our youth’s long-term success. This grant would build upon success from this past year and seek to further enhance learning instruction in reading and math.

2015 $37,000 The Salama Institute education Learn more

Adding a full-time Academic Coordinator in 2014 enabled Salama to make significant strides in program enhancement, enrollment, and program evaluation. A grant to support our experienced teaching staff would bolster the long-term success of our youth by helping us sustain these gains and continue growing in each of these areas.

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]