Shower Up
Our mission is to build community, elevate dignity, ignite hope, and demonstrate God's love by providing mobile showers and personal care for those in need.
ShowerUp utilizes specially designed and customized trailers that contain three, individual shower suites and we transport these around the community to provide showers, hygiene, and personal care to those experiencing homelessness. We serve at 7 different locations each week around Nashville including in encampments and at designated serving locations.
We are asking for funds to purchase a mobile shower unit (shower trailer and truck) and all the supplies and materials to operate it for a full year.
Nashville Diaper Connection
Nashville Diaper Connection is Middle TN’s only diaper bank. NashDiaper’s mission is to ensure that every baby in greater Nashville has enough diapers to remain clean, dry, and healthy. Diapers are not covered by any federal or state safety-net programs. 1 in 3
NashDiaper’s Diapers for Diplomas Program (“D4D”) offers “diaper scholarships” to parenting students pursuing higher education - supplying all the diapers needed for their child while enrolled in school. The Impact100 Nashville grant will be used to expand the current D4D Program, awarding an additional 100 scholarships over the next two academic years and helping extend D4D into at least two Tennessee Colleges of Applied Technology campuses.
Rebuilding Together Nashville
Rebuilding Together Nashville's mission is repairing homes, revitalizing communities, and rebuilding lives. We work to preserve affordable housing, prevent displacement of low-income families, empower seniors to age in place and help retain the fabric of Nashville's changing neighborhoods. The repairs we perform are done at no cost to the homeowner and are guided by evidence-based safety priorities.
Impact 100 funding would allow Rebuilding Together Nashville to increase the capacity to work 1-on-1 with homeowners to provide wrap-around resource referrals, expand our community partnerships and organize homeowner education opportunities. It will also assist with operational costs essential to support well-trained staff and provide high-quality programming.
Mother to Mother
Mother To Mother is a Nashville-based non-profit organization that provides health and wellness items to mothers and children in need. We supply car seats, diapers, formula, and other essentials to low-income families, including all ethnicities, genders, and ages. Our unique model positions MTM as a sourcing and distribution hub, acting as a support for our partners by allowing us to remove the burden from their budgets and contribute efficiently to many family-based causes.
With this grant, we are committed to addressing the need for car seats and proper restraints for children in Middle Tennessee by providing ~558 car seats to parents and supplying educational tools to properly use them. Our new in-kind donation bins will engage Nashville families to give back to their community while creating sustainable practices that support our city.
Corner to Corner
Entrepreneurship is a tool that can be leveraged to change the financial trajectory of Black women who face a 90% wealth gap when compared to white men and also help the broader Black community. The Academy, powered by Corner to Corner, equips emerging entrepreneurs with tools to plan, start and grow their small business. With the empowerment of entrepreneurship, our neighbors are able to improve the long-term upward mobility for themselves and create generational economic security for their families.
Funds from Impact 100 will be invested in The Academy’s programming during 2024 to empower emerging entrepreneurs. Specifically, funds will support full-time program staff (all program graduates), offset the cost of a biannual event, compensate facilitators, and cover program materials.
The Family Center
The Family Center’s mission is breaking intergenerational cycles of childhood trauma, and our vision is to create resilient communities where all children thrive. Our goal is to impact families directly as well as the professionals who work with vulnerable families.
The Family Center is the only nonprofit with allocated physical space at Davidson County Juvenile Court, groundbreaking in our efforts to provide prevention/early intervention/mitigation supports and services for children whose families are often affected by intergenerational cycles of childhood trauma.
This funding would: amplify state funding by increasing the amount of time on site for both a Family Coach and a Case Manager, produce marketing materials/parent supports, fund outcome analysis demonstrating impact/sustainability (changes made in children’s lives as a result of the program), and support ongoing trauma-informed culture training, coaching, and consultation for DCJC staff.
Dream Streets
Our mission is to protect and empower individuals living in distress. We provide supplemental groceries and family-strengthening tools. In addition, we foster positive community relations at our physical
locations, mobile ministry sites, and the streets we serve in West and North Nashville.
With Impact100 funding we will expand our footprint to provide supplemental, high-quality groceries to food desert communities in North and South Nashville. We will add one Mobile Food Distribution site in North Nashville and establish two weekly distribution sites in our targeted area of expansion, South Nashville, within a year’s time. This will be accomplished through (1) the purchase of a 2023 Mercedes Benz 2500 HR and (2) the addition of a part-time driver to complete additional grocery pickups and deliveries.
Dismas House
The mission of Dismas House is to improve lives and strengthen communities by providing the formerly incarcerated with holistic reentry programming that breaks the cycle of incarceration. The residential program has been in operation since 1974 and our supported employment program through IPS has provided services to residents and justice-involved men and women within the community for little over a year. Dismas House has implemented a new community-based supported employment program for justice-involved men and women with a mental health diagnosis with a goal of where 80% of clients sustaining employment.
With the Impact 100 grant, we will increase the level of individual employment support for our clients from an average of $150/per person to an average of $650/per person, because the faster we lift this vulnerable population out of poverty, the more likely they are to manage their mental health and stay employed. |
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