UniCycle
Programs
Budget
$10,000.00
Description
The HERO Family Fund was launched in 2023 and allows HERO outreach workers to provide basic, critical needs to families immediately. The fund is used for items that are integral to a student or family's progress, but are not readily available through other community resources. Examples include gas cards or ride-share vouchers; medications or specific healthcare or hygiene products; critical household essentials and work-related items.
Beneficiaries
Families
At-Risk Populations
Children and Youth (0 - 19 years)
Program Areas Served
Davidson County, families of students in MNPS schools
$10,000.00
Description
The HERO Family Fund was launched in 2023 and allows HERO outreach workers to provide basic, critical needs to families immediately. The fund is used for items that are integral to a student or family's progress, but are not readily available through other community resources. Examples include gas cards or ride-share vouchers; medications or specific healthcare or hygiene products; critical household essentials and work-related items.
Beneficiaries
Families
At-Risk Populations
Children and Youth (0 - 19 years)
Program Areas Served
Davidson County, families of students in MNPS schools
Budget
$8,000.00
Description
UniCycle provides a minimum of two sets of school uniform items students to the 3-4,000 students in the HERO program annually.
We collect "outgrown, not worn out" items at MNPS schools throughout the district and community partner locations, and with partnerships at private schools, including Christ Presbyterian Academy, Montgomery Bell Academy and Harpeth Hall. UniCycle maintains relationships at MNPS schools to keep abreast of uniform changes and student trends, in turn ensuring that we're doing our best to provide options to HERO students that allow them to feel comfortable, focused on their school day, and confident in what they wear.
We know that we should offer jeans and a hoodie to a pre-teen at Croft Middle School, a navy polo and pair of khakis to a junior at Stratford High School, and that black pants and red shirts are the preferred choice at Whites Creek High School. Keeping up with these details is a point of pride and makes a difference to the students we serve.
Category
Human Services - Services for the Homeless
Beneficiaries
Unhoused individuals
Children and Youth (0 - 19 years)
K-12 (5-19 years)
Long-term Success
UniCycle aims to provide all school uniform and other needed school clothing (for students at schools with no school uniforms) for all students enrolled in programming through the Homeless Education Resource Office for Families in Transition. Building community and in-school awareness of the program promotes robust collection of needed items, and a streamlined distribution system ensures longevity of the program. Our support of these students in this way allows other professionals within MNPS and other service agencies to focus on their particular areas of expertise and not spend time or money on something that can be resolved with community support via UniCycle.
Short-term Success
UniCycle works primarily through the collection and distribution of school uniform items from our warehouse, a portable building located at Percy Priest Elementary School. The warehouse will operate at its most effective and efficient with the addition of a contracted worker to handle incoming and outgoing transactions two days per week. We plan to fund this expense with a combination of money received from the Nashville Public Education Foundation's Inspiring Innovation Award and secured grant money.
Program Areas Served
Davidson County, 159 MNPS schools
$8,000.00
Description
UniCycle provides a minimum of two sets of school uniform items students to the 3-4,000 students in the HERO program annually.
We collect "outgrown, not worn out" items at MNPS schools throughout the district and community partner locations, and with partnerships at private schools, including Christ Presbyterian Academy, Montgomery Bell Academy and Harpeth Hall. UniCycle maintains relationships at MNPS schools to keep abreast of uniform changes and student trends, in turn ensuring that we're doing our best to provide options to HERO students that allow them to feel comfortable, focused on their school day, and confident in what they wear.
We know that we should offer jeans and a hoodie to a pre-teen at Croft Middle School, a navy polo and pair of khakis to a junior at Stratford High School, and that black pants and red shirts are the preferred choice at Whites Creek High School. Keeping up with these details is a point of pride and makes a difference to the students we serve.
Category
Human Services - Services for the Homeless
Beneficiaries
Unhoused individuals
Children and Youth (0 - 19 years)
K-12 (5-19 years)
Long-term Success
UniCycle aims to provide all school uniform and other needed school clothing (for students at schools with no school uniforms) for all students enrolled in programming through the Homeless Education Resource Office for Families in Transition. Building community and in-school awareness of the program promotes robust collection of needed items, and a streamlined distribution system ensures longevity of the program. Our support of these students in this way allows other professionals within MNPS and other service agencies to focus on their particular areas of expertise and not spend time or money on something that can be resolved with community support via UniCycle.
Short-term Success
UniCycle works primarily through the collection and distribution of school uniform items from our warehouse, a portable building located at Percy Priest Elementary School. The warehouse will operate at its most effective and efficient with the addition of a contracted worker to handle incoming and outgoing transactions two days per week. We plan to fund this expense with a combination of money received from the Nashville Public Education Foundation's Inspiring Innovation Award and secured grant money.
Program Areas Served
Davidson County, 159 MNPS schools
Budget
$8,000.00
Description
UniCycle supports partner schools by helping them set up and maintain in-school closets that teachers and staff use to offer students clothing assistance on a day-to-day basis.
Closets are stocked first from a school's own collection, which we guide with a toolkit of best practices, fliers, signage, social media posts and newsletter copy that is updated regularly to remind parents to send in "outgrown, not worn out" items. Schools who collect more than they need send the surplus to UniCycle's warehouse. Schools who need more than they collect send a request, and we pack a box of options that is distributed from our warehouse to the school through the internal MNPS mail system. No one is ever left scrambling when a student has a clothing need, be it a one-time emergency or an ongoing situation.
We promote the closet as a family-style sharing opportunity, in turn helping remove the stigma of receiving assistance in the form of school clothes.
Beneficiaries
At-Risk Populations
Immigrant, Newcomers, Refugees
K-12 (5-19 years)
Long-term Success
We aim to implement a UniCycle program at each MNPS school in the next 3 years, so that each school looks first to UniCycle to serve all students with school uniform needs, including students in the HERO program. We will do this through helping schools to build and maintain their own UniCycle clothing closets to serve students on a day-to-day basis, or by directly connecting with appropriate school contacts for case-by-case outreach to fill less frequent needs.
The schools will then rely less on the Homeless Education Resource Office for clothing needs, freeing up time and budget to provide additional wraparound services for Nashville's 3,000-4,000 students experiencing homelessness each year. School employees including teachers, counselors, social workers and other support staff who have taken on the task of procuring school uniforms for students will be able to continue to do so with a simple walk to the closet or email to UniCycle - no additional time, money or paperwork needed.
Short-term Success
UniCycle plans to grow by 10 new UniCycle Closets during the 2021-22 school year. Securing funding for a School Outreach and Warehouse Coordinator will provide more opportunity for both that person and UniCycle Executive Director to focus on growth and assisting school UniCycle Coordinators in closet strategy and logistics, ensuring successful collections and distribution right in school buildings.
Program Areas Served
Davidson County, 159 MNPS Schools
$8,000.00
Description
UniCycle supports partner schools by helping them set up and maintain in-school closets that teachers and staff use to offer students clothing assistance on a day-to-day basis.
Closets are stocked first from a school's own collection, which we guide with a toolkit of best practices, fliers, signage, social media posts and newsletter copy that is updated regularly to remind parents to send in "outgrown, not worn out" items. Schools who collect more than they need send the surplus to UniCycle's warehouse. Schools who need more than they collect send a request, and we pack a box of options that is distributed from our warehouse to the school through the internal MNPS mail system. No one is ever left scrambling when a student has a clothing need, be it a one-time emergency or an ongoing situation.
We promote the closet as a family-style sharing opportunity, in turn helping remove the stigma of receiving assistance in the form of school clothes.
Beneficiaries
At-Risk Populations
Immigrant, Newcomers, Refugees
K-12 (5-19 years)
Long-term Success
We aim to implement a UniCycle program at each MNPS school in the next 3 years, so that each school looks first to UniCycle to serve all students with school uniform needs, including students in the HERO program. We will do this through helping schools to build and maintain their own UniCycle clothing closets to serve students on a day-to-day basis, or by directly connecting with appropriate school contacts for case-by-case outreach to fill less frequent needs.
The schools will then rely less on the Homeless Education Resource Office for clothing needs, freeing up time and budget to provide additional wraparound services for Nashville's 3,000-4,000 students experiencing homelessness each year. School employees including teachers, counselors, social workers and other support staff who have taken on the task of procuring school uniforms for students will be able to continue to do so with a simple walk to the closet or email to UniCycle - no additional time, money or paperwork needed.
Short-term Success
UniCycle plans to grow by 10 new UniCycle Closets during the 2021-22 school year. Securing funding for a School Outreach and Warehouse Coordinator will provide more opportunity for both that person and UniCycle Executive Director to focus on growth and assisting school UniCycle Coordinators in closet strategy and logistics, ensuring successful collections and distribution right in school buildings.
Program Areas Served
Davidson County, 159 MNPS Schools
Budget
$4,000.00
Description
UniCycle maintains its inventory through strategic and consistent collection of "outgrown, not worn out" clothing drives within MNPS schools, private schools and community locations. One of our tenets is to utilize our three "R's" of success - making programming "Relatable, Replicable and Recognizable."
Everyone RELATES to quickly outgrown school clothes. Our system of collecting clothes in prominent locations with wraparound marketing support in the form of signage, emails and fliers is easy to REPLICATE and adapt. And our white collection baskets, UniCycle branding and consistent messaging make our efforts immediately RECOGNIZABLE. It's a formula we're always adapting, and it works: we distributed 20,000 items of school clothing to MNPS students during the 2019-2020 school year, thanks to a steady flow of incoming donations and a streamlined system of getting them where they are needed.
Beneficiaries
Unhoused individuals
Children and Youth (0 - 19 years)
Immigrant, Newcomers, Refugees
Long-term Success
UniCycle's impact depends primarily on collecting enough "outgrown, not worn out" school uniform items to distribute to MNPS students in need. Those numbers include the 3-4,000 students supported annually by the Homeless Education Resource Office, as well as a large percentage of the MNPS students living at or below the poverty line who are not experiencing homelessness, but are in critical need of wraparound services such as school uniform assistance. Our collection efforts must keep in line with the city and school system's needs.
Program Areas Served
Davidson County, 159 MNPS Schools
$4,000.00
Description
UniCycle maintains its inventory through strategic and consistent collection of "outgrown, not worn out" clothing drives within MNPS schools, private schools and community locations. One of our tenets is to utilize our three "R's" of success - making programming "Relatable, Replicable and Recognizable."
Everyone RELATES to quickly outgrown school clothes. Our system of collecting clothes in prominent locations with wraparound marketing support in the form of signage, emails and fliers is easy to REPLICATE and adapt. And our white collection baskets, UniCycle branding and consistent messaging make our efforts immediately RECOGNIZABLE. It's a formula we're always adapting, and it works: we distributed 20,000 items of school clothing to MNPS students during the 2019-2020 school year, thanks to a steady flow of incoming donations and a streamlined system of getting them where they are needed.
Beneficiaries
Unhoused individuals
Children and Youth (0 - 19 years)
Immigrant, Newcomers, Refugees
Long-term Success
UniCycle's impact depends primarily on collecting enough "outgrown, not worn out" school uniform items to distribute to MNPS students in need. Those numbers include the 3-4,000 students supported annually by the Homeless Education Resource Office, as well as a large percentage of the MNPS students living at or below the poverty line who are not experiencing homelessness, but are in critical need of wraparound services such as school uniform assistance. Our collection efforts must keep in line with the city and school system's needs.
Program Areas Served
Davidson County, 159 MNPS Schools
