Nashville Predators Foundation Grants

The Adventure Science Center used their Nashville Predators Foundation Grant to give 180 complimentary tickets to the following Middle Tennessee nonprofit organizations: Blackfield in Motion, Catholic Charities of TN Refugee Services, Kids on the Rise, Oasis Center, St. Mary Orthodox Church, the FIND Design, 100 Black Men of Middle TN, Prospect Inc. and Youth Encouragement Services. 

Amputee Blade Runners utilized their Nashville Predators Foundation Grant to provide care for five Middle Tennessee children. Kenbe, a Nashville third grader who was adopted from Haiti, is one of those children. Kenbe was born with a congenital condition that resulted in his foot being amputated. Because of the grant, Amputee Blade Runners was able to get Kenbe prosthetic equipment that allows him to participate in everything from soccer and track to horseback riding. 

The Cumberland River Compact works to educate and inspire people to be active in water stewardship in Middle Tennessee. The Nashville Predators grant helped to fund the compact's annual Waterfest event in 2018. Waterfest 2018 hosted more than 30 nonprofits, businesses and organizations that provided hands-on water stewardship education to kids and their families. It was hosted along the Cumberland river and included music, dancing, waterslides and trivia. 

The Nashville Predators Foundation and Make-A-Wish of Middle Tennessee have been partners for more than a decade. In 2018, Make-A-Wish Foundation of Middle Tennessee received a grant from the Predators to help them continue creating life-changing experiences for children with critical illnesses in Middle Tennessee. The Predators Foundation grant made it possible for eight-year-old Devin's wish of riding a semi-truck to a Preds game come true. He also got to sign a lifetime contract with the team, watch practice, sit for the official team photo, score a few goals on Pekka Rinne, visit the locker room, ride the Zamboni and watch the game from a club suite. 

The mission of McNeilly Center for Children is to provide high-quality early care and education for low-income families by providing at-risk children with new experiences, learning opportunities and classroom environments they would not otherwise get. The Nashville Predators Foundation grant helped to provide curriculum for several of their toddler classrooms and built a chicken coop where the students get hands-on lessons about caregiving. 

The LP PENCIL Box program is a brick and mortar school supply store that allows Metro Nashville Public School's teachers to stock their classrooms and equip their students for learning at no cost to them. The Nashville Predators Foundation Grant allowed PENCIL to buy 1,200 backpacks that were stuffed with school supplies and distributed to Metro Nashville Public School students at high-needs school. 

Thanks to the Nashville Predators Foundation grant, Rejoice School of Ballet provided 56 young dancers with the proper dance wear, shoes and costumes to practice and perform. At Rejoice, more than 75 percent of dancers receive ballet training on an income-based sliding scale.

"Seeing our dancers twirl, leap and smile for the camera in their costumes is a gift and we are so grateful for. The support the Predators provides Rejoice in our mission to train, nurture and celebrate dancers from diverse backgrounds." - JoEllen Working-Weedman of Rejoice.