Statements
Mission
Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee serves as a catalyst for good by bringing people, ideas, and funding together to create a more inclusive and thriving community.
Background
Founded by a group of civic leaders committed to the idea of creative and meaningful giving, Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee was envisioned as a strong, regional, community-based organization that could promote and facilitate giving. A public charity, we work hard to foster and encourage giving within the 43 counties we serve and on behalf of the broadest range of charitable purposes and charitable organizations. Since our creation in 1991, we have given $795 million in grants to make a difference for this community.
Impact
Our Goals: 1) To serve as a leader, catalyst, and resource for giving. 2) To build and hold a permanent and growing endowment for the community's changing needs and opportunities. 3) To provide flexible and cost-effective ways for individuals, families, and companies to contribute to their community. 4) To strive for excellence in grant making that benefits Middle Tennessee in fields such as social services, education, health, the environment, and the arts. We hope to: 1) Increase the number of individuals, corporations and professional advisors who appreciate how we can help them help others. 2) Invite people to participate in giving by assuring them that, through Community Foundation, their gift matters.
Needs
We work hard to look for critical intervention points in the work of local nonprofits, places where our gift will matter most. We do that in large part because we have a personal responsibility to shake every donor's hand and assure them that their charitable giving matters. Every year we are unable to fund good people doing important work in Middle Tennessee. Our need is to increase giving to our Unrestricted Impact Fund - so we can help our neighbors in need, now and always.
CEO Statement
What Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee does: We connect generosity with need by helping nonprofits, individuals and companies who care, protect the quality of life throughout Middle Tennessee. Why we do it: Because giving matters. It matters when people with great hearts - whether or not they have great wealth - give to make the path easier for others. How we do it: By connecting generosity with need. We provide customized services to people and companies to help them give with meaning, confidence and joy. We enable people to give assets of value (e.g. cash securities, land, personal possessions, insurance, etc.) to support the charitable organizations in which they believe.
Board Chair Statement
Here's why I love the Community Foundation: It's based on the notion that giving is personal. What I might want to do, might not be what you want to. Animals in need of a home might tug at your heartstrings; I might worry about drugs in the middle schools. Someone else might find great meaning in endowing the historic Nashville City Cemetery; someone else might want to put on plays. I also love the fact that at Community Foundation, every gift matters. We accept it gratefully. We grow it carefully. We invest it wisely in the needs of our community. We are good stewards of our community's future and present. I hope you will join in our work. Pick your passion. Make a difference. Feel great!
Service Categories |
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| Primary Category: | Philanthropy, Voluntarism & Grantmaking Foundations - Community Foundations |
| Secondary Category: | - |
| Tertiary Category: | - |
Areas Served
In addition to serving 40 counties in Middle Tennessee, the Foundation also serves 3 counties in Southern Kentucky, Christian, Todd and Trigg counties.
| TN - Bedford |
| TN - Cannon |
| TN - Cheatham |
| TN - Clay |
| TN - Coffee |
| TN - Cumberland |
| TN - Davidson |
| TN - DeKalb |
| TN - Dickson |
| TN - Fentress |
| TN - Franklin |
| TN - Giles |
| TN - Hickman |
| TN - Houston |
| TN - Humphreys |
| TN - Jackson |
| TN - Lawrence |
| TN - Lewis |
| TN - Lincoln |
| TN - Macon |
| TN - Marshall |
| TN - Maury |
| TN - Montgomery |
| TN - Moore |
| TN - Overton |
| TN - Perry |
| TN - Pickett |
| TN - Putnam |
| TN - Robertson |
| TN - Rutherford |
| TN - Smith |
| TN - Stewart |
| TN - Sumner |
| TN - Trousdale |
| TN - Van Buren |
| TN - Warren |
| TN - Wayne |
| TN - White |
| TN - Williamson |
| TN - Wilson |
