Thanks to its generous supporters and volunteers, The Women’s Fund has made grants of more than $1.6 million to 132 unique nonprofit organizations supporting women and girls throughout Middle Tennessee.
The following 40 Grantees received a total $185,600 in our 2018-19 discretionary grant cycle.
ORGANIZATION | DESCRIPTION OF GRANT |
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A Step Ahead Foundation of Middle Tennessee | To provide free long-acting reversible contraception to 88 mothers under 25 years of age by partnering with local health clinics. |
Advocates for Women's and Kids' Equality (AWAKE) Inc. | To expand an educational opportunity for young women across middle Tennessee that focuses upon healthy relationships and finances. |
Amelia's Closet | To provide a mobile outreach service, in addition to the storefront operation, that will assist women with transportation barriers. |
Center of Hope | To provide therapeutic counseling to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking & human trafficking. |
Community Homeless Outreach & Support/The Brooks House | To provide preventive and corrective physical/dental/vision exams/medications for residents as intake processing and follow-up treatment in preparation for workforce entry. |
Domestic Violence Program, Inc. | To provide a Mobile Sexual Assault Nurses Exam (SANE) program to improve sexual assault services in the community and provide 50 exams. |
End Slavery Tennessee | To provide intensive and full spectrum aftercare services for 200 human trafficking survivors. |
Epic Girl, Inc. | To use screening and case management to recruit, retain and link 200 girls in detention to EPIC Girl's programs. |
Faith Family Medical Center | To provide 68 comprehensive, quality, primary health care visits to women in Davidson County who are uninsured or underinsured. |
Families in Crisis, Inc. | To provide services to survivors of domestic/sexual violence by providing them with resources to become safe, independent, healthy and self-sufficient. |
Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee, Inc | To support Troop 6000, which provides traditional Girl Scout Troop experiences in several locations to homeless girls in Davidson County. |
Girls on the Run of Middle Tennessee | To provide 113 girls from low-income families the opportunity to participate in a life changing research-based character development program. |
Haven of Hope | To provide enhanced domestic and sexual violence victim services in undeserved rural counties through case management, counseling, and housing assistance. |
Healing Housing, Inc. | To provide a safe home and supportive services for 14 underprivileged women in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction. |
Hope Clinic for Women | To provide well-women, STD testing/Pap exams for 40 low-income, underserved women who would otherwise not have access to care. |
Matthew Walker Health Center | To provide screening mammograms for uninsured women in Clarksville and Smyrna. |
Middle Tennessee Fund for Women and Girls | To provide salary negotiation training to working women from Middle Tennessee at sites located in Rutherford County and Davidson County. |
Miriam's Promise | To provide assistance for basic needs for low-income moms during crisis pregnancies, while providing pregnancy counseling free of charge. |
Nashville Diaper Connection | The "No Child Wet Behind" program provides baby diapers to those that otherwise might not have them. |
NeedLink Nashville | To help 30 low-income women who are pregnant or have newborn babies under 6-months avoid homelessness and/or utility disconnection. |
Nurses for Newborns of Tennessee | To prevent infant mortality, child abuse and neglect through home visitation by registered nurses. |
Pathway Lending (Southeast Community Capital Corporation) | To provide small business skills through classes, counseling and mentorships that build financial empowerment for 250+ disadvantaged women and their families. |
Play Like a Girl! | To provide access to STEM education in a sports context for 150 rising ninth grade girls from low-income households. |
Rejoice School of Ballet | To empower young girls by training, nurturing and celebrating dancers from diverse racial, socioeconomic, cultural and developmental backgrounds. |
Renewal House, Inc. | To provide trauma-informed, gender-specific intensive outpatient addiction treatment for 70 low-income women, including specialized programming for pregnant and postpartum mothers. |
Rest Stop Ministries, Inc. | To provide long-term residential restorative care to adult female survivors of sex trafficking in a trauma-informed community of holistic healing support. |
Saint Thomas Health Foundation | To bring life-saving screening mammography to 72 uninsured/underserved women in Bedford, Coffee, and Warren Counties through a mobile mammography outreach. |
Sexual Assault Center | To provide therapy and support for 24 low-income girls under 18 years old, affected by sexual assault/abuse. |
Starlings Nashville | To provide a program that will encourage leadership skills for underserved girls ages 5-18. |
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Early Childhood Education | To provide four one-year scholarships to four children ages 6-weeks to 4 years for safe quality early childhood education. |
The F.I.N.D. Design | To provide programming for 75 Antioch girls that focus on healing and restoring relationships with one’s self, community and police. |
The Hope Station, Inc. | To provide rental and utility assistance to single working mothers with minor children in Davidson and Rutherford Counties. |
The Mary Parrish Center | To help defray the costs of healthcare, legal costs, food, and other essential emergency needs for our residents. |
The New Beginnings Center | To provide 130 low-income women with 9,360 hours of wellness coaching that improves physical fitness, health and quality of life. |
The Next Door | To provide addiction treatment services for all adult women. |
Thistle Farms, Inc. | To provide housing, healthcare, and job training to 29 women survivors of trafficking, prostitution, and addiction. |
Wings of Courage | To provide escape bags for all victims of domestic violence in Nashville/ Middle Tennessee. |
Women Are Safe | To improve the safety of children and adults who receive services at our Domestic Violence Outreach Office. |
You Have the Power... Know How to Use It, Inc. | To support existing prevention programs on child sexual abuse, bullying, acquaintance rape, domestic violence, human sex trafficking, and elder abuse. |
YWCA Nashville & Middle Tennessee | To provide safety, housing, and case management to promote healing and self-sufficiency in 500 victims of domestic violence. |