Updates

For decades, UMCOR Arrives After Disaster Strikes UPDATED 03/01: The following story includes original reporting, as well as updated information provided by CFMT and UMCOR's Tornado Recovery Connection Director, Eileen Lowery. The Tennessee Conference of the United Methodist Church Disaster Response Ministry (UMCOR) received a $50,000 grant to initiate case ...
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Nashville-based Community Resource Center (CRC) serves more than 100 nonprofit agencies, providing them with new household goods, bedding, kitchenware, cleaning supplies, clothing and personal hygiene items for their clients in need. Its agencies represent a diverse client base that includes at-risk children, disadvantaged seniors, victims of domestic violence, refugees resettling ...
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UPDATED 03/01: The following story includes original reporting, as well as updated information provided by CFMT and Hands on Nashville's director of communications, Lindsey Turner. Founded in 1991 by Hal Cato, Hands On Nashville’s mission is to meet community needs through volunteerism. Today, HON connects thousands of volunteers of all ...
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And now comes the rebuilding. The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee announces four additional grants totaling $227,000 to area nonprofits and organizations helping those affected by the deadly and destructive tornadoes of March 3. The Middle Tennessee Emergency Response Fund advisory committee approved the latest round of grants last week ...
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Recover Wilson represents a coordinated effort for tornado recovery in Wilson County, comprising churches and other nonprofit groups in Mt. Juliet, Lebanon and other communities. Few Middle Tennesseans know the long haul of disaster recovery more than Regina Girten. Girten, outreach pastor at Providence United Methodist Church in Mt. Juliet, ...
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UPDATED 03/01: The following story includes original reporting, as well as updated information provided by CFMT and Neighbor 2 Neighbor's executive director, Jim Hawk. Neighbor 2 Neighbor is a local and nonpartisan nonprofit founded by neighborhood leaders across Davidson County. Neighbor 2 Neighbor equips residents and neighborhood organizations with the ...
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UPDATED 03/01: The following story includes original reporting, as well as updated information provided by CFMT and Lantern Lane Farm's (LLF) director of engagement, Holly Griffith. Lantern Lane Farm is a nonprofit counseling center located in Mt. Juliet. Its purpose is to help restore people who seek a safe place to ...
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The timing couldn't have been worse. Two months before the city would commemorate the 10-year anniversary of a historic flood that devastated the Nashville region, a series of tornadoes struck Davidson, Putnam and Wilson Counties in the early hours of March 3. Nashville, it seems, must brace itself for a ...
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Founded in 2002, Conexión Américas builds a welcoming community and creates opportunities where Latino families can belong, contribute and succeed. As the largest Latino-serving organization in Tennessee, each year its statewide organization assists more than 9,000 individuals and their families in their desire to start and expand businesses, pay taxes, ...
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Founded in 1994, Heritage Academy is a self-supporting, coeducational, Seventh Day Adventist college-preparatory boarding high school located in Monterey, Tennessee on the Cumberland Plateau in Putnam County. The small school has an active program integrating academic, vocational and spiritual education. Service is a very large part of its institutional fabric ...
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UPDATED 03/01: The following story includes original reporting, as well as updated information provided by CFMT and Heart of the Cumberland's executive director, Tammy Wilson. Heart of the Cumberland in Cookeville, Tennessee provides peer support groups to promote hope and healing to those on a journey through grief. Peer support ...
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UPDATED 03/01: The following story includes original reporting, as well as updated information provided by CFMT and Compassionate Hands' coordinator of Renewal, Leslie Williams. In 2012, a group of Christians set out to make sure nobody froze to death in Wilson County. God blessed that effort. Over the last five ...
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