Metro Announces New Program to Award Nonprofit Grants

Released this morning from the Mayor’s Office:
PROGRAM TO AWARD NONPROFIT GRANTS FINALIZED
Metro funds to be awarded on merit basis
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Mayor Karl Dean today announced a Community Enhancement Grant program has been put in place to ensure Metro funds for local nonprofits are awarded on a merit basis.
Nonprofit organizations meeting the criteria of the [...]

Local Second Harvest Food Bank Experiencing Growing Demand

From Saturday’s Tennessean:
May 11, 2008
Food bank hopes donations meet need
Hard times force more to seek help
By NATALIA MIELCZAREK
Staff Writer
Considering the slowing economy and rising gas prices, a local food bank isn’t even dreaming of topping last year’s donations through the annual Stamp Out Hunger drive.
The Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee just hopes [...]

Tennessee Women’s Theater Project “Women’s Work” Opens This Weekend

“Women’s Work” is a festival designed to showcase women in the arts. Click here to view the schedule of performances. It promises to be a great celebration!
The Mission of TWTP is:
to present theatrical productions of the highest quality to Middle Tennessee audiences
to produce plays that express the human condition in the female voice
to provide acting, directing, [...]

Bill Gates on “Strategic Corporate Philanthropy”

Bill Gates wrote an editorial that was published in today’s Asia Wall Street Journal:
‘Strategic Corporate Philanthropy’
By BILL GATES
FROM TODAY’S WALL STREET JOURNAL ASIA
May 8, 2008
How important is access to information technology? A World Bank report released earlier this year found a very high correlation between the rate of technology progress and income growth. It said: [...]