HWEN Corporation
Programs
Budget
$6,800.00
Description
This is a public music event held on four consecutive Sundays in May and June in Fannie Mae Dees Park. It features local bands and the Metro Parks & Recreation 'Jam Band' consisting of children in public schools. HWEN pays the participants to perform public concerts in an inviting and inclusive public space. These concerts are well advertised and open to all.
Program Areas Served
None
$6,800.00
Description
This is a public music event held on four consecutive Sundays in May and June in Fannie Mae Dees Park. It features local bands and the Metro Parks & Recreation 'Jam Band' consisting of children in public schools. HWEN pays the participants to perform public concerts in an inviting and inclusive public space. These concerts are well advertised and open to all.
Program Areas Served
None
Budget
$8,500.00
Description
An open-to-the-public event of horse-drawn carriage rides highlighting historic homes decorated with thousands of lights throughout neighborhood streets located in the historic conservation overlay, held in December each year. Funds raised are used to support community programs such as schools, the arts, environment and sustainable concerns, education regarding history, gardening, crime, children's athletic programs, and non-profit organizations such as Ronald McDonald House.
Program Areas Served
None
$8,500.00
Description
An open-to-the-public event of horse-drawn carriage rides highlighting historic homes decorated with thousands of lights throughout neighborhood streets located in the historic conservation overlay, held in December each year. Funds raised are used to support community programs such as schools, the arts, environment and sustainable concerns, education regarding history, gardening, crime, children's athletic programs, and non-profit organizations such as Ronald McDonald House.
Program Areas Served
None
Budget
$1,000.00
Description
HWEN Tree Day is a community tree planting event held in the fall and maintained throughout the year. Approximately 1,000 trees have been planted over a 20-year period by hundreds of volunteers in public spaces and along streets. Tree Day also makes it possible for individuals to purchase low-cost trees for their own use in an effort to replace trees that have been lost to disease, development, street widening. We also plant these trees to make public sidewalks more shaded, thus, more walkable and inviting, as well as to decrease the heat radiated from the immense amount of paving that exists in the urban environment. The neighborhood Plant Swap offers the community a free way to increase value to their property and enhance the beauty of the community. It is open to the public and free of charge. We offer vegetables, herbs, perennials, and annuals to anyone at no cost.
Program Areas Served
None
$1,000.00
Description
HWEN Tree Day is a community tree planting event held in the fall and maintained throughout the year. Approximately 1,000 trees have been planted over a 20-year period by hundreds of volunteers in public spaces and along streets. Tree Day also makes it possible for individuals to purchase low-cost trees for their own use in an effort to replace trees that have been lost to disease, development, street widening. We also plant these trees to make public sidewalks more shaded, thus, more walkable and inviting, as well as to decrease the heat radiated from the immense amount of paving that exists in the urban environment. The neighborhood Plant Swap offers the community a free way to increase value to their property and enhance the beauty of the community. It is open to the public and free of charge. We offer vegetables, herbs, perennials, and annuals to anyone at no cost.
Program Areas Served
None
Budget
$1,000.00
Description
This public event has taken place every year since 1988. It is a community building outreach that has bolstered Neighborhood Pride Month by encouraging families, children, and individuals from all walks of life to come together in a celebration. A Chinese paper dragon 20' long is carried through public streets accompanied by a parade of Scottish Pipes & Drums, marchers, children and bicyclists, beginning at Natchez Trace and wending its way down Blair Boulevard, 25th Avenue South, Barton Avenue, Fairfax Avenue, and 24th Avenue South. It ends at a local park known as 'Dragon Park' and culminates with a free ice cream social. It is open to all of of Nashville, free of charge. HWEN works closely with Metro Dept. of Public Works and Parks & Recreation to conduct this activity in a safe and efficient manner.
Program Areas Served
None
$1,000.00
Description
This public event has taken place every year since 1988. It is a community building outreach that has bolstered Neighborhood Pride Month by encouraging families, children, and individuals from all walks of life to come together in a celebration. A Chinese paper dragon 20' long is carried through public streets accompanied by a parade of Scottish Pipes & Drums, marchers, children and bicyclists, beginning at Natchez Trace and wending its way down Blair Boulevard, 25th Avenue South, Barton Avenue, Fairfax Avenue, and 24th Avenue South. It ends at a local park known as 'Dragon Park' and culminates with a free ice cream social. It is open to all of of Nashville, free of charge. HWEN works closely with Metro Dept. of Public Works and Parks & Recreation to conduct this activity in a safe and efficient manner.
Program Areas Served
None
CEO/Executive Director/Board Comments
| I am honored to serve as the Chair of the Board of Directors of Hillsboro West End Neighbors. HWEN is the neighborhood I haved worked in and raised a family in since 1982. I have been a HWEN Board member since 2009, becoming Chairperson in 2015. We have had many successes in our organization. We were recently selected by the city to become one of the first walking neighborhoods in the urban area. Our beautification committee has, over the last several decades planted over 1000 trees in our neighborhood. We recently received a state grant to plant larger trees along two well walked streets for the purpose of making our neighborhood more walkable. We have many volunteers who help water and maintain these trees. We have many great events that are mainstays of our neighborhood: our Dragon Parade and Ice Cream Social is a capstone event of our "Neighborhood Pride" month and has been organized for over 20 years. Four years ago, we added a concert series to our summer event schedule- Dragon Music Sundays- in conjunction with Metro Parks. We have many other events as well: Clean Up days, Outdoor movie nights, Candidate forums, etc. One of our greatest assets to the neighborhood is our ongoing efforts to communicate matters of interest and importance to the neighborhood. We publish a quarterly newsletter that is distributed to 2300 homes and businesses, we maintain an email list/google group with well over 1000 subscribers. One of our struggles is to raise enough money to keep up with the many projects our members and Board of Directors engage in. We have no dearth of talent and enthusiasm, but funding all the great ideas for projects doesn't always keep pace. We have stepped up our efforts at recruiting new dues paying members and have organized new kinds of fundraisers, to raise money to restore the mosaic dragon in the park. To view the diversity of HWEN based on 2010 U.S. Census data, please go to http://www.movoto.com/neighborhood/tn/nashville/37212.htm. |
