Featured Charity Night: Saturday, October 19

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Drive Items: Food Drive (canned items, nonperishables)

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Mission Statement: Manna Cafe's mission is to serve people suffering from economic insecurity while restoring hope, dignity, self-reliance, community, and the love of God through Jesus Christ.

Counties Served: Montgomery and Stewart Counties. However, we also serve transient community members from the surrounding area.

About: Kenny York was a man of great faith, who together with his wife, Vicki, obediently followed a divine calling to build Manna Café Ministries ─ a place of help and hope for the hurting. In 2022, Kenny went to his eternal home after a battle with cancer, and Vicki assumed the role of CEO. A dedicated team of staff, volunteers, and community partners carry on with excellence the legacy of steadfast love that is Manna Café Ministries, and are guided by a vision of a community where all people's basic needs are met with dignity and respect. Since 2009, our team has worked diligently to serve and care for others. We do this primarily by combatting the ongoing issue of economic insecurity, but our programs collectively benefit the underserved, our community, and our planet. We utilize food, clothing, showers, shelter, health clinics, nutrition education, and culinary internships to assist roughly 30,000 vulnerable community members annually. In recent years, we have expanded our services to promote the holistic wellness of at-risk community members with the intent of breaking the cycle of poverty. Our team first seeks to meet the immediate needs of hurting individuals and families, and then through casework services, helps connect them to opportunities that promote life changes and restoration to a healthy, self-reliant, and productive place in society.

Did you Know?

• Last year Manna Cafe provided more than 93,000 diapers through our partnership with the Nashville Diaper Connection.
• Manna Cafe rescues more than 1.5 million pounds of food from area grocery stores and restaurants preventing it from going to the landfill.
• Manna Cafe offers an employment readiness program to train people in the food industry. Successful interns can become ServSafe certified with a new career.

How will funds be used?

Funds will be used to provide hunger relief and other services benefiting low-income community members.

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Featured Charity Night: Saturday, November 2

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Drive Items: Monetary donations

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Mission Statement: The mission of the Native American Indian Association (NAIA) is to provide social and supportive services with a focus on promoting traditional Native American arts and cultural revitalization for the Native American Indian population in the State of Tennessee.

Counties Served: Native Americans living in All counties statewide are served by our organization.

About: The NAIA was incorporated as a 501c3 in 1982. For the past 42 years, NAIA has provided essential services, job, vocational, and higher educational supportive services, and cultural revitalization events with our Annual Pow Wow to the Native American population of Tennessee. We have filled the gap of this need of assistance in a state without federal or state recognition of Native Americans or culturally appropriate resources dedicated to them. Our job training and educational service programs are funded by the Department of Labor, and we are currently working to build the region's first inter-tribal Cultural Center in Nashville, TN.

Did you Know?

• Did you know there are more than 28,000 Native Americans living in Tennessee and over 161,000 people who are part Native American living in Tennessee?

How will funds be used?

These funds will be used to build the region's first Native American run Cultural Center. The Center will be called the Circle of Life and all will be welcome to visit, join the circle, and learn about the diversity of Native American, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska Native cultures.

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Featured Charity Night: Saturday, January 18

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Drive Items: New children’s books

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Mission Statement: The mission of Project Transformation Tennessee is to transform communities by engaging children, college-age young adults and churches in purposeful relationships.

Counties Served: Davidson, Rutherford, Montgomery, and Shelby

About: Since 2012, Project Transformation has provided an evidence-based, eight-week children’s literacy program that transforms lives and revitalizes economically distressed communities by providing educational opportunities, fostering positive leadership, and engaging individuals in effective social outreach. Our primary goal is to stem learning loss and strengthen literacy gains for children (grades 1-8). College-age young adults seeking vocational discernment and leadership training run the programs.

Since 2012, Project Transformation has supported over 4,500 children in our literacy programs * During Summer 2024, children across Middle Tennessee read 3,174 books * Project Transformation gifted 1,122 books for the children to take home to add to their personal libraries.

How will funds be used?

Project Transformation is always striving to expand and build on the children’s experiences. Funds donated would support taking the children on field trips that would aspire to be fun and educational. Funds may also help provide program supplies and curriculum.

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Featured Charity Night: Saturday, February 8

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Drive Items: Laundry detergent, tissues, soap

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Mission Statement: From Your Father aims to level the playing field for children in fatherless homes by providing essential resources and support that encourage them to reach their greatest potential and know that they are loved, valued, and appreciated.

Counties Served: Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson, and Montgomery

About: From Your father is a faith centered non-profit organization that serves Middle Tennessee. We help fatherless children and single moms in the community by providing resources that build a stronger foundation. Some of these resources include boxes filled with essential items like laundry detergent, toilet tissue, paper towels, diapers, wipes, trash bags, food, organic produce, and other household items. It is not From Your Father’s aim to simply deliver food to single moms. Instead, FYF establishes lifelong relationships with each participant. It is our hope to create a village where all feel welcome, supported, and loved by God. To that end, our team of staff and volunteers supports each participant by providing for their emotional, spiritual, mental, and physical needs.

Did you Know?

• From Your Father initially started off serving the homeless prior to helping fatherless children and single moms. We realized the importance of helping the community, so we empowered families to give out “love your neighbor” bags to neighbors or those who did not have permanent homes. Many of the boxes that go out to the families have handwritten notes on them from our volunteers.
• Our goal is to raise enough money to buy a home to house all the resources we provide to the community in one location.
• The primary focus of From Your Father are the needs of children in fatherless homes and single moms with our goal being to build whole and healthy homes.

How will funds be used?

From Your Father will use the funds to support our programs that meet the needs of children and families in fatherless homes.

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Featured Charity Night: Saturday, March 8

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Drive Items: Queen/King blankets, new sneakers

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Mission Statement: The mission of NAHT is to rescue, restore and resource women and children from the bondage of human trafficking and addiction.

Counties Served: We focus on counties in Middle Tennessee but will serve all of Tennessee.

About: NAHT Rescues women through survivor informed interventions. We Restore women through survivor informed curriculum and relational wraparound support. We Educate the community to Recognize human trafficking, and we Resource survivors with jobs through NAHT’s Sweet Daisy social enterprise.

Did you Know?

• Human trafficking is not just a socio-economic issue…it affects every zip code in Tennessee and across our country. The average age of a trafficking victim in Tennessee is just 13 years old.

How will funds be used? Funds raised through our Featured Charity night would be used in several ways.

• Our Rescue team averages 6-10 rescues per month and funding is needed to provide clothing, hygiene, housing, treatment and trauma care for women.
• Our Restore program needs funding for class curriculum.
• Our Educate to Recognize (EtR) Program needs funding for National Child ID Program Kits and Human Trafficking Resources to provide critical education to our most vulnerable, middle and high school students to recognize the signs of human trafficking.

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Featured Charity Night: Sunday, April 6

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Drive Items: Diapers, pullups and wipes

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Mission Statement: o Palmer Home provides superior care for children while introducing the love of God through our service to each individual child. Palmer Home ensures restorative environments where children feel safe, connected and supported. Whether on campus or off, each child served by Palmer Home has a safe place to call home with trustworthy, supportive adults to guide them as they grow and develop into all that God created them to be. Palmer Home provides holistic care to each child based on their unique physical, emotional, spiritual and educational needs.

Counties Served: Middle Tennessee counties served currently include Davidson, Williamson, Maury, Sumner, Cheatham, Robertson, Rutherford, Montgomery, Coffee, Knox, Bedford, Grundy, and Marion

About: Palmer Home for Children serves children ages newborn to 24 years old regardless of race, gender or background. Founded as a small orphanage in 1895, Palmer Home has grown into a multifaceted ministry that serves hundreds of children and their families each year. When a child is referred to Palmer Home, he or she is placed in one of our four care settings that best fits their unique needs: Campus Care, Foster Care, Transitional Care and Family Care, which serves infants and mothers incarcerated right here in Nashville.

Did you Know?

• Palmer Home for Children has been serving children for 130 years!
• 45% of the children served through Palmer Home are from the Nashville Area through their Family Care Program
• Pregnant women who are incarcerated have 24-48 hours with their baby after delivery before the baby is moved to a foster home. With Palmer Home, mom and baby stay connected and strive for reunification.
• We’ve been serving women impacted by the justice system from Debra Johnson Rehabilitation Center since 2007.
• Palmer Home serve moms from anywhere in the state of TN if they are required to come to Nashville to serve their prison sentence.
• Palmer Home families who partner with moms are volunteers; we continue to serve moms after their time of incarceration as they transition back into the community and establish stability for themselves and their children
• Palmer Home is licensed as a Child Placing Agency through the TN Department of Children’s Services.

How will funds be used?

For 130 years, Palmer Home has remained independently funded thanks to the generosity of individuals, corporations, foundations, civic groups and churches. With your help, we are able to provide loving homes and restorative care, for children and families in need.

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