Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition

http://www.tnimmigrant.org

 

Mission

We are a coalition of immigrants, refugees, and allies working to lift up fundamental American freedoms and human rights and build a strong, welcoming, and inclusive Tennessee.

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Grants

Grant Year Amount Program Name Program Area Description
2018 $30,000 Youth Organizing marginalized youth Learn more

There are massive changes coming for immigrant youth depending on the passage or failure of the DREAM Act: either permanent protection for an estimated 30,000 immigrant youth in Tennessee or the 9,000 current DACA holders become undocumented. We will support youth in the wake of these announcements.
2018 $10,000 marginalized youth Learn more

To find messages and messengers that can move individuals who are “conflicted” about immigrant rights to being solidly supportive and inoculated from being pushed in the wrong direction when hit by attacks for anti-immigrant forces.
2017 $30,000 Immigrant Youth Leadership Development: Empowering Youth, Reducing Barriers marginalized youth Learn more

Tennessee’s rapidly growing population of immigrant youth experience numerous and compounding barriers to their success. Through an empowerment model of service delivery we assist youth in overcoming these barriers, while providing the tools and opportunity they need to become engaged leaders shaping their futures and communities.
2017 $15,000 Core Mission Support marginalized youth Learn more

To provide Core Mission Support during DACA renewal.

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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