Tennessee Parks and Greenways Foundation

 

Mission

Tennessee Parks & Greenways Foundation (TennGreen) is an accomplished, nonprofit land trust dedicated to protecting and conserving Tennessee’s natural treasures.

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Grants

Grant Year Amount Program Name Program Area Description
2018 $30,000 Wildlife Habitat Conservation Assistance Fund wildlife conservation Learn more

TennGreen protects important wildlife habitat using two key strategies: conservation easements on privately-held land and acquisition. On occasion, funding assistance is requested/required by landowners or by public agencies to cover specific costs of this conservation work. TennGreen requests funding to create a Wildlife Habitat Conservation Assistance Fund.

2015 $10,000 Nashville’s Wildlife Conservation Corridor wildlife conservation Learn more

A forested wildlife corridor, identified in Nashville’s Open Space plan, runs in an arc, connecting Beaman Park through Bells Bend to West Meade through Warner Parks to Radnor Lake. This natural landscape provides vital habitat to an array of wildlife and is critical to health and recreation in Davidson County.

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]