Maddox Youth Philanthropic
Advisory Board

The Youth Philanthropic Advisory Board was a group of Nashville youth given the task to distribute $100,000 in grants to local nonprofit organizations.  This grant opportunity was open to nonprofits aligned with Maddox’s three program areas: education, youth, and wildlife conservation.

Grants

The Youth Philanthropic Advisory Board made grants to the following organizations:

  • AWAKE TN
  • Communities in Schools of TN
  • Edgehill Neighborhood Partnership
  • Equal Chance for Education
  • Junior Economic Club of Nashville
  • McNeilly Center for Children
  • Mill Creek Watershed Assoication
  • Nashville Launch Pad
  • Nashville Teacher Residency
  • Plant the Seed
  • STARS Nashville
  • TIRRC
  • TN Justice for Our Neighbors
  • The F.I.N.D. Design
  • Turnip Green Creative Reuse
  • Youth Villages
  • YWCA of Middle TN and Nashville

About the Advisory Board

Participants

The Maddox Youth Philanthropic Advisory Board was composed of students that go to school and live in Antioch. This group of students brings a diverse set of knowledge, life experiences, and worldviews to this participatory grantmaking process.

  • Amirah Watson
  • Calle Shwani
  • Christian Stokes
  • Faiza Islam
  • Greta Matthies
  • Harrinson Sanchez
  • Jehlin Hayes
  • Kerestin Mikheil
  • Martina Gergis
  • Mena Doce
  • Omar Sadika
  • Parker Buchanan
  • Sharon Ogundokun

For any questions, feel free to contact the Youth Philanthropic Advisory Board’s facilitator La’Kishia Harris at [email protected].

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).

email Jen: [email protected]