Impact100 Nashville is being featured by the Impact100 Global Organization in national media. We need your help representing our chapter in two ways:
First: Can you be part of a chapter picture on Tuesday, September 28 at 11:30 am?
The location is Barge Design at 615 3rd Ave S., Nashville, Suite 700.
The picture will take less than an hour. If you can come, DRESS ALL IN BLACK and please send an email toinfo@nashville.impact100council.orgat which time parking instructions will be sent.
Second: Could you give us 10 minutes of your time (or less) by taking a one-minute video of yourself using your smartphone?
In the video, answer the following questions:
What has membership in Impact100 meant to you?
How has Impact100 affected your community? What difference has our chapter made locally?
How has Impact100 Global helped our chapter, or you, as a leader, to be more successful?
The Board of Directors made the difficult decision to change the November 4 voting event to a virtual event instead of in-person.
Please join us VIRTUALLY on Thursday, November 4th at 5:30 pm for the most exciting event of the year – our Annual Voting Event where members exercise their important role in choosing the non-profits to receive Impact100 Nashville transformative grants. This year Impact100 Nashville will be awarding two $101,500 grants to two of eight non-profit semi-finalists. Join us on Zoom to hear the four finalist presentations and cast your vote. Our voting event aligns with all other Impact100 chapters around the country in a National Day of Giving for Impact100.
An invitation will be coming soon with the registration link.
If you register by October 25th, we will have a gift bag and tote for you to pick up prior to the event. More details to follow.
We are pleased to announce the following eight organizations as semi-finalists for the two $101,500 grants being awarded at the November 4 Membership and Voting Event.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Middle Tennessee
Bridges of Williamson County
End Slavery Tennessee
Mending Hearts, Inc.
Nashville Conflict Resolution Center
Native American Indian Association of Tennessee (NAIA)
Our Place Nashville
Tennessee Kids Belong
Each of these organizations has gone through two rounds of scrutiny from our Grants Committee Reviewers. Over 50 organizations submitted a Letter of Intent(LOI). Those LOIs were scored by the Grants Committee, and from that group, 16 were invited to submit a full application. Those applications were reviewed in detail by the committee. Applications were scored based on the quality of the application, the degree to which the organization’s programming ends a serious social cycle, specificity of the use of grant money, and the magnitude of the projected impact of the grant on the Nashville community.
The mission of the Native American Indian Association (NAIA) of Tennessee is to provide social and supportive services and cultural revitalization for the more than 25,000 Native American Indians living throughout Tennessee and to promote Native American Indian arts and crafts.
Ending the Cycle of hardship caused by historical disenfranchisement of Native Americans
Proposed use of funds: Grant will aid in covering construction costs for the Circle of Life Indian Cultural Center
Mending Hearts helps women restore their lives from addiction through a long-term treatment program that offers hope and healing in a supportive community environment – regardless of their ability to pay.
Ending the Cycle of addiction and homelessness through its long-term treatment program
Proposed use of funds: Grant will serve 325 women over 2 years by contributing funds toward 5 programs: Residential Treatment, Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP), Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP), Peer Support Community and Independent Living
Nashville Conflict Resolution Center empowers individuals and families to resolve and move beyond conflict through mediation.
Ending the Cycle of negative police involvement disproportionately affecting black and brown communities
Proposed use of funds: Grant will fund the Youth and Police Summit to foster healthy relationships between Nashville youth and law enforcement, in partnership with MNPD’s Alternative Police Strategies Unit
Our Place Nashville empowers adults with developmental disabilities by providing homes that are affordable, work that is meaningful, and inclusive communities in which to live.
Ending the Cycle of lacking, affordable housing for individuals with developmental disabilities
Proposed use of funds: Grant will help construct a community space at a new cluster of houses on Elysian Fields, will build a small inside/outside gathering space at an existing Friendship House, and will help furnish the spaces
Tennessee Kids Belong equips the community to dramatically change the experience and outcomes for children in foster care.
Ending the Cycle of unadopted kids aging out of foster care, which leads to staggeringly high outcomes in homelessness, trafficking, addiction, incarceration, pregnancy, and unemployment
Proposed use of funds: This grant would fund the majority of the budget for filming children in Nashville in need of a forever family, through the “I Belong Project” and recruitment efforts to get them placed in adoptive homes in 2022
End Slavery Tennessee’s mission is to promote the healing of human trafficking survivors and strategically confront slavery in our state.
Ending the Cycle of human trafficking (specifically for clients with physical disabilities with this grant)
Proposed use of funds: ESTN will utilize funding to ensure equitable access to residential programming for survivors with disabilities by renovating a safe house to be ADA-compliant
The mission of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Middle Tennessee is to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
Ending the Cycle of intergenerational poverty that affects many of the youth served through mentoring programs
Proposed use of funds: Funding will be used for the implementation of the Mentor Corps Fellowship (MCF), a program that will help increase access to mentors most requested by young people
The mission of Bridges Domestic Violence Center is to serve area women, men, and their children affected by domestic violence, ensuring a safe transition to successful independent community living through instruction, intervention, and case management
Ending the Cycle of domestic violence
Proposed use of funds: Grant will enable shelter to add one bedroom and bathroom so that they can increase their capacity to serve one more family at a time (an increase of 481 individuals per year)
The eight organizations chosen to move forward in the process will now participate in site visits attended by members of Impact100 Nashville (all members are invited). Site visits will all be virtual and will take place between October 5-22. Watch your email for details about the site visit dates, locations and the links for registration. The site visits will be graded by participants, and from those visits, four organizations will be selected as finalists to present live to members at our November 4 voting event at which the two grant recipients will be chosen.
This process is fundamental to Impact100 mission and purpose.
Please get involved by participating in a site visit and voting on November 4.
Impact100 Nashville is proud to announce that Ms. Joanne Sowell, board member of Impact100 Nashville, was selected as a Model Behavior 2021. The Model Behavior program, sponsored by NFocus Magazine, celebrates 10 women in the Nashville community for their philanthropy and service to Nashville non-profits. Click here to read about Joanne and what she said about her involvement in Impact100 Nashville:
The 2022 membership season kicks off with the November 4 voting event. Invite your friends to attend and join that evening or before. The membership fee can be paid in monthly installments that end in May of 2022. If each member brings in a new member, we will reach over 400 members and will give away four $100,000 grants in 2022! Let’s make it happen.
Talk to your friends, neighbors, colleagues and family about the IMPACT we can make in the Nashville community.
UPCOMING EVENTS
October 1 @ 11:30 AM Grants Committee Lunch and Learn Meet the eight semi-finalists organizations and hear about the schedule for conducting site visits at all eight organizations.
Register in advance for this meeting HERE.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
October 12 @ 6 pm Celebrate the Power of Women
Virgin Hotel Lobby, Nashville
Bring a friend to this Membership Event to help expand our membership and IMPACT
November 4, 2021 Annual Day of Giving Impact100 Global
November 4 from 5:30 - 7 pm
Impact100 Nashville Annual Meeting and Voting Event.
This will be a virtual event. Registration information coming soon via email.
Anyone who registers by October 25 will be able to pick up a goody bag of food and gifts – location and details to follow.
Introducing Easy Giving Option.
For all 2021 members, consider committing to 2022 membership by enrolling in our new Easy Giving program, which breaks down your annual payment into manageable monthly payments beginning now. If you join in October, pay $150 per month and be fully paid by the end of our membership drive on May 31, 2022. Mention this opportunity to your friends and family who were unable to join this year. It’s a great way to make membership more affordable. To enroll in the Easy Giving option, contact finance@nashville.impact100council.org.
In each newsletter, we like to spotlight one of our generous corporate sponsors who have made it possible for us to purchase grant software, provide promotional items to members and guests, fund events, and pay for website expenses. We appreciate their support. In prior newsletters, the following sponsors were highlighted: Hippo Technologies Inc., Studio Bank, and Vaco. Enjoy learning more about another of our loyal sponsors, Holliday/Kenning.
Holliday│Kenning is a management and leadership consulting firm that believes in organizations where learning is ongoing, where personal development extends beyond the workplace and reaches out to the community-at-large. We believe in entities where change is championed, and organizational structures and practices adapt to stakeholder needs and changing environments. We have seen organizations change and we have seen employees energized by their mission who work hard for the stakeholders they serve. We want to provide leaders and organizations with the tools to facilitate this cultural transformation.
The Holliday│Kenning Playbook is the basis for our leadership training and development services. Our framework offers five distinct plays using our unique LPL model that focuses on growing leaders and driving optimal performance. We bring a wealth of knowledge and experience as we lead customized solutions for your organization. We recognize the inherent value of people and their roles in processes in moving your organization to the next level. What separates good organizations from great organizations is their commitment to developing leaders in a results-based culture.
Trish “Doc” Holliday is an educator, international keynote speaker, workshop facilitator, and leadership executive coach who helps professionals be perceived as the talented, confident, creative leaders they truly are. She is a dynamic human resources leader who is passionate about learning.
Trish believes in a culture that promotes engagement, encourages retention, and provides development for all employees, positioning the organization as a learning organization. Trish serves on various non-profit and academic boards and enjoys giving back to the community. As an alum of Leadership Tennessee, Leadership Middle Tennessee, and Young Leaders of Nashville, Trish has a passion for non-profits and is a founding board member of the non-profit organization, Impact Nashville. She is Director elect for the Tennessee Society of Human Resources State Council and Board Chair-elect for the nonprofit organization, Disability Rights of Tennessee.
From her days in full-time ministry, in the Appalachian missionary field, and her work in government, private sector, nonprofits, and education, Trish has found enormous joy in helping people become their best selves and organizations to reach optimal performance. Learn more about us at www.hollidaykenning.com. Reach out to Trish at trish@hollidaykenning.com.
