2024 Grant WINNER:
A Step Ahead – Middle Tennessee
Award:
$100,000
Focus Area:
Transformation
Details:
A Step Ahead of Middle Tennessee prevents unplanned pregnancies by providing education and access to free, long-acting, reversible contraception.
2024 Grant WINNER:
Tennessee Justice Center
Award:
$100,000
Focus Area:
Transformation
Details:
The Tennessee Justice Center (TJC) is a leading nonprofit committed to advocating for vulnerable populations across Tennessee, particularly those facing barriers to accessing essential healthcare and economic stability.
2024 Grant RUNNER-Up:
Friends Life Community
Award:
$9,000
Focus Area:
Transformation
Details:
Friends Life Community believes in the power of inclusion and connection to build community and improve quality of life for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
2024 Grant RUNNER-Up:
Nashville Diaper Connection
Award:
$9,000
Focus Area:
Transformation
Details:
Nashville Diaper Connection is dedicated to ensuring that babies and their families in Davidson County have access to clean diapers. By partnering with social service agencies and community groups, they distribute diapers to families in need, helping to alleviate financial stress and promote child health.
2023 Grant Recipient:
ShowerUp
Award:
$100,000
Focus Area:
Ending the Cycle
Details:
ShowerUp provides those experiencing homelessness in Nashville, TN with mobile showers and personal hygiene necessities. Our mission is to build relationships, restore hope and dignity, and show the love of God with those in need by providing them with shower services and personal care.
2023 Grant Recipient:
Dream Streets
Award:
$100,000
Focus Area:
Ending the Cycle
Details:
Dream Streets is on a mission is to protect and empower individuals living in distress. They provide supplemental groceries and family-strengthening tools. In addition, to fostering positive community relations at physical locations, mobile ministry sites, and the streets of West and North Nashville.
2023 Grant Recipient RUNNER-UP:
Corner 2 Corner
Award:
$15,000
Focus Area:
Ending the Cycle
Details:
Corner 2 Corner is a relationship-centered nonprofit that focused on seeing neighbors flourish on their own terms. In partnership with the community, the first program was aimed at equipping the justice-involved with the necessary skills to gain meaningful employment and an invitation to walk together in the love of Christ. Since those early days, Corner to Corner has grown and expanded programming throughout Middle Tennessee, all in meaningful partnership with neighbors.
2023 Grant Recipient RUNNER-UP:
Rebuilding Together
Award:
$15,000
Focus Area:
Ending the Cycle
Details:
Rebuilding Together restores, rebuilds and performs essential repairs at homes of area residents. They have made meaningful improvements to more than 500 Nashville area homes and work to preserve affordable homeownership and revitalize neighborhoods. Why? Because safer, healthier residences bring families together, raise spirits, extend lives. Rebuilding Together help houses stay homes.
2022 Grant Recipient:
Community Resource Center
Award:
$100,000
Focus Area:
Ending the Cycle
Details:
The Community Resource Center’s mission is to provide critical essential items to our most vulnerable Middle Tennessee neighbors, both during times of disaster and seasons of ongoing need. To address hygiene insecurity in our community, the CRC will use the Impact100 Nashville grant to launch the CRC Hygiene Bus. The CRC Hygiene Bus will provide free hygiene assistance to Middle Tennessee residents experiencing hygiene insecurity, as well as hygiene/household needs that arise because of natural disaster.
2022 Grant Recipient:
Crossroads Campus
Award:
$100,000
Focus Area:
Ending the Cycle
Details:
Crossroads Campus is transforming lives by creating opportunities for individuals facing poverty and homelessness to care for homeless dogs and cats. Impact100 Nashville grant monies will be utilized to outfit and build out The Grooming School with professional grade pet grooming equipment, supplies and facilities to accommodate up to 20 students and the adjacent Training Center with educational technology and physical resources for classroom experiences and training that are essential to fear-free grooming and humane animal care.
2022 Grant Recipient:
BeWell in School
Award:
$25,000
Focus Area:
Small and New
Details:
BeWell in School teaches mindfulness and movement as a proactive behavior management system. They provide an alternative approach to traditional discipline by teaching effective strategies for self-regulation. Their mission is to provide students with the tools they need to be successful in the classroom, and beyond by making wellness strategies available to all. BeWell will invest the grant from Impact100 Nashville towards research and data analysis consultation services/partnerships to codify the BeWell Program. In BeWell’s fourth year (2022-23), serving eight schools in two states, this grant will allow them to work with objective experts to examine their program and training efforts to ensure fidelity throughout expansion.
2022 Grant Recipient:
Homeland Heart Birth and Wellness Collective
Award:
$25,000
Focus Area:
Small and New
Details:
Homeland Heart Birth and Wellness Collective’s mission is to promote and protect maternal, perinatal, and infant health among women, infants, and families of color. Homeland will use grant funding for operating costs such as supporting executive leadership and staff salaries as well as grant researching and writing. They will also use the funds for capacity building by way of training support for staff and volunteer doulas as well as programming for our clients.
2021 Grant Recipient:
Mending Hearts
Award:
$102,000
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. They offer a holistic approach to addiction by providing compassionate phases of care in a family environment, identify the triggers and stressors of addiction, while establishing the support needed for recovery. Their unique program develops independence and offers opportunities to reintegrate into society with confidence. Impact100 Nashville funding was used to help 325 women in their addiction treatment through funding 5 main program lines: Residential Treatment, Partial Hospitalization, Intensive Outpatient, Peer Support Group, and Independent Living.
2021 Grant Recipient:
Tennessee Kids Belong
Award:
$102,000
Tennessee Kids Belong is an affiliate of America’s Kids Belong, and its mission is to improve the experiences and outcomes for kids in foster care in Tennessee. Its 3 main programs are family recruitment, community engagement, and building coalitions for change. Impact100 Nashville dollars were used to film 90 “I Belong” videos for children aging out of the foster care program without having been adopted with the purpose of finding them adoptive parents before reaching legal age.
2019 Grant Recipient:
The Family Reconciliation Center
Award:
$25,500
Family Reconciliation Center is a nonprofit guest house in Nashville, TN that provides free lodging to anyone visiting a loved one in prison or jail. By covering most travel costs, Family Reconciliation Center makes visitation possible for hundreds of people every year who are trying to see their loved ones in prison or jail. Impact100 Nashville grant funds were used to make capital improvements to their guest house, purchase booking software, and expand their reach by engaging in a direct mail campaign.
2019 Grant Recipient:
Nashville Peacemakers
Award:
$25,500
Nashville Peacemakers’ mission is twofold—to give youth in distressed neighborhoods the basic life skills and self-worth to choose peaceful alternatives to violence, and to support the mothers whose child has been victimized. Their vision is to be the catalyst of change on a worldwide scale, so all children live to be adults who lead productive and meaningful lives. The organization runs two programs for youth in disadvantaged, low income areas (Straight Talk for young men and Back to Basics for young women). They also lead a program for mothers who have lost children to gun violence. Impact100 Nashville grant funds provided salaries for 3 program staff: a facilitator, a licensed therapist, and a mental health professional. When the COVID-19 pandemic began some funds were repurposed to increase access to digital technology so that youth programs could be continued virtually.
2019 Grant Recipient:
Sexual Assault Center
Award:
$50,000
The Sexual Assault Center’s mission is to provide healing for children, adults and families affected by sexual assault and to end sexual violence through counseling, education and advocacy. Impact100 Nashville grant dollars were used to create a multifaceted communication campaign as well as delivery of training and digital toolkits that are age appropriate for preschool, K-12, and college age children.
2018 Grant Recipient:
Oasis Center
Award:
$28,500
Oasis Center is a nationally-recognized organization on a mission to help young people in Middle Tennessee move into a happy, healthy, and productive adulthood. Every year, we engage over 4,000 youth and families across a broad spectrum of programs and services designed to help them reach their full potential. Our Mission is to build relationships that advance youth well-being, amplify youth voice, and inspire action toward a just community. Impact100 Nashville funds were used to fund the Reaching Excellence As Leaders program, a 13-week juvenile court diversion program.
2018 Grant Recipient:
ShowerUp
Award:
$28,500
ShowerUp’s mission is to build relationships, restore hope and dignity, and show the love of God to those in need by providing them with shower services and personal care. We believe that everyone is human. Those experiencing homelessness oftentimes get treated as less than human, and we want to tear down that misconception. ShowerUp serves those experiencing homelessness and anyone in need by providing mobile showers, hygiene resources, and personal care. Impact100 Nashville grant dollars were used to purchase a mobile shower unit, doubling the amount of showers provided.
2017 Grant Recipient:
Tennessee Alliance for Kids
Award:
$25,000
Tennessee Alliance for Kids (TAK) engages the community to meet the emergent and ongoing needs of children in foster care, those at risk of coming into foster care, and those aging out of foster care. Tennessee Alliance for Kids used the Impact100 Nashville grant to fund 2017 operating expenses.
2017 Grant Recipient:
Renewal House
Award:
$25,000
Renewal House serves more than 500 women and children each year, providing residential and out-patient recovery services, housing and other care. We help women gain the skills to remain sober, give their children nurturing care, improve their physical and mental health, and secure employment. Our long-term impact is profound, as women are able to provide stable housing and other basic family needs, avoid legal entanglements and become contributing community members. For the children, our early intervention and prevention services lessen their probability of developing a substance use disorder and other adolescent behavioral health problems. Renewal House saves significant taxpayer dollars, decreasing state welfare, foster care, healthcare and criminal justice costs. Impact100 Nashville grant funds were used to hire a Peer Recovery Specialist.
2016 Grant Recipient:
Retrieving Independence
Award:
$21,500
Retrieving Independence is a Nashville-based nonprofit that breeds, trains and places service dogs with people who are living with physical, mental or emotional disability. This is all accomplished with the help of volunteer breeders, puppy raisers, and weekend furlough volunteers. Through our partnership with the Tennessee Department of Correction, RI works with inmates to provide a significant portion of the training throughout the almost two-year program. Impact100 Nashville’s grant funded the purchase of a bus to transport service dogs from the Turney Center Correctional Facility, where the dogs are trained to Brentwood, TN where volunteers meet and pickup the dogs for weekend socialization.
2016 Grant Recipient:
Safe Haven Family Shelter
Award:
$21,500
For more than 36 years, Safe Haven Family Shelter has led Middle Tennessee’s efforts to house, support, empower and advocate for families experiencing homelessness. Its shelter-to-housing program is the only one of its kind in Tennessee and tailored to meet each family’s needs. They provide comprehensive services with a focus on affordable housing, employment and community resources. Impact100 Nashville’s grant dollars were used to invest in and grow their workforce development program, Employment 360, that provided access to employment for homeless clients by removing barriers to employment and providing pathways to better and more sustainable employment.