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The Memorial Foundation is pleased to announce that it awarded grants totaling $2,716,559 to 78 organizations during the fourth quarter of 2009. Grants will support a wide variety of vital services in Middle Tennessee. The Next Door serves women in crisis and their children with transitional living and supportive services in a faith-based environment. Its downtown location is a six-month structured residential program designed to provide recovery support services for up to 52 women who come by referral primarily from incarceration and also from rehabilitation centers and homelessness. Program objective is for each resident to find and maintain employment, become financially responsible and stable, reunite with their family, find permanent housing, remain drug-free and to not return to prison. In summer 2007, The Next Door opened a second location at the Freedom Recovery Community. This permanent housing complex provides 20 apartment units for safe, affordable living for women and their children. Services include professional counseling to address issues of addiction and mental health, life skills instruction, case management, workforce development, and tutoring and mentoring for children. In 2008, The Next Door admitted 145 new women to the downtown program and, at any given time, 25 to 30 women and their children are served at the Freedom Recovery Community. The Memorial Foundation awarded funding to support program operations and development. Mobile Loaves & Fishes (MLF) daily distributes food, clothing, and personal care items to the homeless and working poor. Each evening, volunteers take a truck filled with healthy meals to the streets of Nashville to serve people living on the street. Those being served can be found under the bridges, in the Tent City, along the banks of the Cumberland River, and at daily rate motels. Also, MLF has recently partnered with the Martha O'Bryan Center in East Nashville to serve healthy meals to school-aged children at least six times a month. Over 500 volunteers from local churches, schools, and businesses work together to bring meals, clothing, toiletries, blankets, and supplies to those in need. Volunteers are willing to listen, offer companionship, and can help refer to other social services agencies. MLF serves an average of 3,000 meals each month to the homeless and working poor in the Nashville area. The Memorial Foundation awarded funding for general operations.
Christian Cooperative Ministry began in 1982 as a cooperative venture among local churches to provide benevolent assistance such as food and clothing to those in need in the Madison area. Currently, there are 16 member supporting churches. This ministry has experienced significant demand for food and clothing in the past 12 to 18 months. During the first seven months in 2009, they have provided 2,730 food boxes, plus 487 homeless bags, and distributed 18,415 pieces of clothing to the needy. Additional space is needed to meet this growing demand. This Ministry purchased its current facility in February 2008 with capital funding from by The Memorial Foundation. The Memorial Foundation awarded capital funding to construct a 410 square foot addition to the back of the existing building that will provide additional storage space and will include a loading dock. Capital funding was also awarded to resurface the parking lot. Together, these and other recipient organizations are making a lasting impact in the lives of people in Middle Tennessee. The following is a complete list of nonprofit organizations that have been approved for funding in 2009: ABLE Youth
Gallatin Child Care Center Gallatin Day Care Center Gallatin Shalom Zone General Commission on United Methodist Men Gilda's Club Nashville GivingMatters.com Goodlettsville Help Center Goodpasture Christian School Guild Elementary School Habitat for Humanity of Wilson County Hands On Nashville Health Assist Tennessee Hendersonville Chamber Foundation Hendersonville Rotary Foundation High Hopes Home Bound Meals Program Homework Hotline Hope Clinic for Women Hope Family Health Services Hospital Hospitality House House of Mercy Howard Elementary School Interfaith Dental Clinic Jobs for Life Junior Achievement of Middle Tennessee King's Daughters Child Development Center Ladies' Hermitage Association Ladies of Charity Welfare Agency L.A.S. Therapy Network and Development Group Leadership Nashville League for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Literacy Council of Sumner County Love Helps Madison Christian Medical Clinic Madison Little League Magdalene Make-A-Wish Foundation of Middle Tennessee Martha O'Bryan Center McNeilly Center for Children Mending Hearts Men of Valor Mental Health Association of Middle Tennessee Metropolitan Nashville/Davidson County Public Schools Middle Tennessee Council-Boy Scouts of America Middle Tennessee Mental Health & Substance Abuse Coalition Minnie Pearl Cancer Foundation Miriam's Promise Mobile Loaves & Fishes Nashville Moms ALIVE Montgomery Bell Academy - Community Outreach Program Morning Star Sanctuary Murrell School NAACP - Nashville Branch NAMI Tennessee (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Nashville Adult Literacy Council Nashville Ballet Nashville Chamber Public Benefit Foundation Nashville Chess Center Nashville Children's Alliance Nashville Children's Theatre Nashville Civic Design Center Nashville Opera Association Nashville Opportunities Industrialization Center Nashville Public Television Nashville Rescue Mission Nashville Shakespeare Festival Nashville Symphony Association Nashville Youth for Christ Nashville Zoo National Center for Fathering The Next Door Nurses for Newborns of Tennessee Oasis Center Parents Reaching Out Pastoral Counseling Centers of Tennessee Peace Unlimited in Recovery PENCIL Foundation Pope John Paul II High School Portland Area Library Foundation Presbyterian Day School Preston Taylor Ministries Prevent Blindness Tennessee Project Return Refuge Center for Counseling Rejoice Ministries Robertson County Education Initiative Rooftop Saddle Up! Safe Haven Family Shelter Salvation Army-Nashville Area Command Salvus Center Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee Sexual Assault Center Siloam Family Health Center Southeastern Council of Foundations Sponsors Scholarship Program St. Joseph Catholic School St. Luke's Community House STARS Nashville Station Camp High School Sumner Child Advocacy Center - Ashley's Place Sumner County Board of Education Sumner County CASA Sumner County Emergency Medical Services Sumner County Just Say No Network Sumner Mediation Services Synergy Neighborhood Youth Development Program Tennessee Association of Business Education Foundation Tennessee Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence Tennesseee Historical Society Tennessee History for Kids Tennessee Performing Arts Center Tennessee Repertory Theatre Tennessee SCORE (State Collaboration on Reforming Education) Tennessee Theater Company Tennessee Wildlife Federation The Nashville Choir United Way of Metropolitan Nashville - Emergency 2-1-1 Call Program Volunteer State College Foundation VSA arts Tennessee Watkins College of Art & Design Wayne Reed Christian Childcare Center Whitten Elementary School You Have The Power...Know How To Use It Young Leaders Council Youth Encouragement Center Youth Speaks Nashville Youth Villages |
