Budget
$20,000.00
Description
Healing Circles and discussion-based learning for youth nationally and locally identifying as SWANA
Beneficiaries
Adolescents
Program Areas Served
Virtual

Budget
$10,000.00
Description
Every first Saturday in collaboration with Creative Girls Rock and the Maddox Fund
Beneficiaries
Children and Youth (0 - 19 years)
Minorities
Program Areas Served
Southeast Library, Virtual

Budget
$0.00
Description
Funded in partnership with The Nashville Food Project, Elmahaba supports in PR, conflict resolution and interpretation services.
Beneficiaries
Seniors
Adults
Immigrant, Newcomers, Refugees
Program Areas Served
Mill Ridge Park in Antioch

Budget
$20,000.00
Description
Funded by Humanities TN, this is a project capturing the history of Coptic Nashville through photo, video, sound, and mapping. The project also trains new oral historians for Nashville and is firmly led by women of color.
Beneficiaries
Immigrant, Newcomers, Refugees
Middle East
Program Areas Served
virtual

Budget
$50,000.00
Description
In partnership with the Nashville Diaper Bank, we host a monthly diaper bank in Nashville on the third Saturday of every month, and in partnership with Mother to Mother, we organize support for mothers through material resources. With the WIC department, we offer classes on breastfeeding, car seats, and challenges of motherhood. We are currently looking to add a mothers' support group.
Beneficiaries
Women and girls
Middle East
Program Areas Served
Antioch, TN

Budget
$50,000.00
Description
We distribute food, clothes, diapers, baby supplies, and furniture weekly while also hosting legal clinics and medical clinics for South Nashville residents.
Program Successes
We have furnished several houses because of community members alerting us to several destitute newcomer families, making sure that children aren't sleeping on the floor, parents are well-fed, vaccinated and not evicted from their homes.
Beneficiaries
Families
Children and Youth (0 - 19 years)
Immigrant, Newcomers, Refugees
Long-term Success
We offer dozens of families with children the opportunity to elevate themselves through material/resource sharing and community networking on those days.
Short-term Success
On our diaper bank list, we have nearly 50 families as of December 2021. Every week, we serve about that number offering them material supplies that they would not have had without our care.
Program Success Monitored By
The Nashville Diaper Connection oversees our monthly diaper bank and we partner with several organizations to provide programming and to establish accountability and trust.
Program Areas Served
Nashville

Budget
$10,000.00
Description
With an instructor, a small group of 10th-11th graders prepare for the ACT in full in three months. We offer the latest Princeton Review ACT Prep book with 6 practice tests and online resources to enhance our students' learning.
Category
Education  -  
Beneficiaries
Adolescents
K-12 (5-19 years)
Minorities
Program Areas Served
Antioch, Tennessee

Budget
$1,000.00
Description
On the foundation that bi-lingual Arabic-speaking children (K-3rd graders) are already advanced but are in need of social and academic support to help with their English reading and writing skills, we bring local tutors who speak both Arabic and English to assist the children in their learning on Tuesday evenings and Saturday afternoons.
Category
Education  -  
Beneficiaries
K-12 (5-19 years)
Minorities
Program Areas Served
Antioch, Tennessee

Budget
$3,000.00
Description
Virtually on Zoom, only in the summers for students about to be seniors, we prepare them in full to apply for colleges in the fall when they return to class to ensure that they are well-prepared and not stressed for the next few months. We work on resumes, essays, scholarships, and creating a timeline and checklist for the next few months, while also studying the nuances of applying like asking for a recommendation or speaking to a financial aid officer.
Category
Youth Development  -  
Beneficiaries
Adolescents
Program Areas Served
Antioch, Tennessee

Budget
$1,000.00
Description
Almost every Thursday night on our Facebook, we bring experts from our community to speak about their knowledge, whether that be related to current events like COVID-19 and unemployment, or life topics like creating a resume and job interviewing.
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Category
Community Improvement, Capacity Building  -  
Beneficiaries
Middle Eastern/North African (MENA)
Adults
Minorities
Program Areas Served
Antioch, Tennessee