St. Luke’s Community House

 

Mission

St. Luke’s educates, enriches and empowers the community through meaningful collaborations and quality services.

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Grants

Grant Year Amount Program Name Program Area Description
2018 $15,000 Youth Education Program education Learn more

St. Luke’s Youth Education Program educates, empowers and equips 105 pre-K-8th graders with the education and skills they need to be successful. Through partnership with Preston Taylor Ministries and an emphasis on literacy and social and emotional learning, St. Luke’s provides quality care and education opportunities for Nashville students.

2017 $10,000 St. Luke’s Pre-Kindergarten Program education Learn more

The Child Development Program offers care for children in Pre-K. This program provides early educational intervention focusing on literacy and kindergarten readiness. Parents pay for their child’s care based on a sliding-scale tuition fee system to ensure that families have access to affordable child care within their own community.

2016 $12,500 Child Development Program education Learn more

The Child Development Program offers care for children six-weeks-old to five-years-old. This program provides early educational intervention focusing on literacy and kindergarten readiness. Parents pay for their child’s care based on a sliding-scale tuition fee system to ensure that families have access to affordable child care within their own community.

2015 $12,500 St. Luke’s Child Development Program education Learn more

The St. Luke’s Child Development Program provides underprivileged children with an early literacy education and their parents with access to affordable childcare. Our program begins at age six and carries children through pre-kindergarten before graduating them into local elementary schools.

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]