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AmeriCorps Alumni Group to Launch in October

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Office Space Available for Nonprofit Agency

Monroe Harding has office space available on its main campus in Southwest Nashville. The property is located on Glendale Lane off of Granny White Pike, near Harding Place. The total square footage is approximately 2264 and includes 6 offices, a conference room, kitchen and bathroom. Access to additional conference rooms and dining hall is also available. All utilities are included (except phone). The space is available immediately. Monthly rental rate is $1,200. A nonprofit organization is desired. This space was previously rented by First Steps and Prevent Child Abuse. Please call Evelyn Tidman at 298-5573 or email evelyntidman@monroeharding.org if interested.

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AD 2 Nashville Opens its Doors for its 2010-2011 Public Service Campaign

This week, Ad 2 Nashville, a division of AAF Nashville, will release its Public Service RFP (request for proposal) and begin accepting applications for its annual public service project for the 2010-2011 club year. Each year, the advertising club selects one organization to help amplify its mission through the implementation of a fully integrated advertising/marketing campaign. All qualified organizations are encouraged to apply for consideration and can download an application by clicking on the link “Download 2010-2011 Application” on http://www.ad2nashville.org/publicservice.html. Organizations must be non-profit and exempt from Federal Income Tax under 501(c)(3) and submit a completed application for review no later than 31 August 2010. The selection will be made by September 14th.

National Ad 2 was founded in 1947 to create a means for up and coming professionals in the industry to gain the contacts, education and leadership opportunities they need to become tomorrowʼs industry leaders. The Nashville Chapter was chartered in 2004. Past public service clients have included the Nashville Chapter of the American Parkinson’s Disease Association, The Alcohol and Drug Council of Middle Tennessee and Health Assist Tennessee.

For more information, please contact Brady Purnell at publicservice@ad2nashville.org or visit www.ad2nashville.org.

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Monthly VAN Meeting on August 18th

VAN August General Membership Meeting

Wednesday, August 18th

11:30-1:00pm

Location: Nashville Rescue Mission

SPECIAL GUEST: Hands On Nashville

Lunch will be provided

Please RSVP by August 16th to Cheryl Webster at cwebster@alivehospice.org (615) 963-4728

See attached flyer for more information.

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Lipscomb Students to Produce Promotional Videos for Nonprofits

From Lipscomb University’s SALT program:

Does your organization have a need for a promotional or recruitment video? This fall students in an upper-level Business Policy & Strategy course will be working on a special project for nonprofits. The students will be placed in teams and charged salt_logo_e1with developing a promotional video on behalf of a nonprofit partner. These videos can be designed for volunteer or donor recruitment or for use in marketing events, programs or services.

The Lipscomb fall semester begins on Monday, August 23rd, so we would anticipate that this project will begin to move forward in a little over a month.

If you are interested or know someone who might be interested, please contact Christin Shatzer at christin.shatzer@lipscomb.edu for more details.

I hope you will consider being involved in this opportunity!

About SALT:

SALT [Serving and Learning Together] is an academic service-learning program designed to enhance the educational experience of undergraduate students at Lipscomb University. Through the SALT Program, students have the opportunity to work on a wide variety of curricular and co-curricular projects that impact the community, connect academic ideas they are learning in the classroom to real world experiences, help them develop marketable job skills and network with professionals in the community.

UPDATE: This program is currently at capacity. Stay tuned for additional opportunities to work with Lipscomb University students.

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Nominations Requested for Charlie B. Temple Service Award

NOMINATIONS REQUESTED FOR CHARLIE B. TEMPLE SERVICE AWARD

Honor Recognizing Unsung Community Heroes To Be Presented at 1960 Olympic Celebration

image001The legacy of Charlie B. Temple, beloved wife of legendary track coach Ed Temple, will be honored through the presentation of the Charlie B. Temple Service Award at the

“Rome 1960 – Celebrating 50 Years” event on Aug. 27.

“Charlie B.,” who passed away in 2008, was known for her tireless behind-the-scenes support of the young women of Coach Temple’s Tennessee State University track program. Coach Temple often credits the success he and the Tigerbelles experienced through his 44 years as coach to his wife.

Nominations for the Charlie B. Temple Service Award will be accepted between now and Aug. 13. Ideal nominees are those who are devoted to helping people in their communities, stand alongside others to help them succeed, give of themselves selflessly and have a positive spirit. Download a nomination form at www.coachtemple.com.

The “Rome 1960 – Celebrating 50 Years” event, hosted by Temple and presented by Fifth Third Bank, benefits a scholarship fund established in Temple’s name at New Hope Academy. Steve Turner and Dr. T.B. Boyd III are serving as co-chairmen of the event.

Temple will be joined at the event, which will be held at the Hutton Hotel, by gold medalists including decathalete Rafer Johnson, high jumper Ralph Boston, swimmer Lance Larson, and Tigerbelles Barbara Jones-Slater, Lucinda Williams, Martha Hudson and other Olympians. Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Maraniss, who wrote a best-selling book on the 1960 Olympics, will moderate a discussion with the Olympians in attendance.

Visit www.coachtemple.com to learn more about the event.

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CFMT Gives Report on Flood Relief Grants

The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee announces its fourth round of disaster grants from its Metro Nashville Disaster Response Fund and Tennessee Emergency Response Fund totaling $726,000 to nine local organizations providing flood relief and restoration services. To date, *$2.1 million in flood relief grants have been awarded to more than 60 organizations from The Community Foundation’s two disaster funds.

Comm. FoundationOn July 12, The Community Foundation awarded the following flood relief grants from its disaster funds:

* Centerville Church of Christ has received a $20,000 Tennessee Emergency Response Fund grant to continue providing aid to residents of Hickman County affected by the flood. Approximately 25-30 victims per week are receiving services including clothing, building supplies, and appliances.

* Hands On Nashville has received two grants, one from each fund, totaling $250,000 to assist in the rebuilding of approximately 75 flood damaged homes with volunteer labor by November 2010. In coordination with Rebuilding Together, Hands On Nashville will work with homeowners through the We Are Home program, and then assess homes, determining the scope of work, requisite supplies and volunteer duties, providing volunteer leaders, general volunteers, and building supplies. Rebuilding Together will provide skilled project management and coordinate skilled labor and building supplies needed.

* The Housing Fund has received two grants, one from each fund, totaling $300,000 to provide up to three months of rental assistance to 250 households who do not have sufficient resources to carry the burden of mortgage and rent payments after insurance and FEMA.

* Hull-York Lakeland Resource Conservation and Development has received grants totaling $15,000 from the Tennessee Emergency Response Fund to support the local cost sharing required by the federal government to assist in clean-up of debris and repair work for damaged roads and infrastructure, in coordination with the USDA, for 85 different sites in Clay, Jackson and Macon counties.

* Legal Aid Society has received two grants, one from each fund, totaling $75,000 to provide direct legal assistance and counseling to Middle Tennessee victims dealing with civil legal issues in the aftermath of the flood through walk-in legal clinics and direct representation to low-income and elderly victims.

* Mission Discovery has received a $36,000 Tennessee Emergency Response Fund grant to provide materials for home repair assistance for approximately 40 families in Davidson and Sumner counties. Home repair assistance will be provided to the elderly and families who have do not have flood insurance and have not received FEMA aid.

* North Nashville Flood Relief Group received a $10,000 Metro Nashville Disaster Response Fund grant to continue its work to help flood victims in North Nashville.

* Southeast Nashville Flood Relief Team received a $10,000 Metro Nashville Disaster Response Fund grant to continue its work to help flood victims in Southeast Nashville.

* West Nashville Flood Recovery Network received a $10,000 Metro Nashville Disaster Response Fund grant to continue its work to help flood victims in West Nashville.

Click here to get more information on flood relief grants  distributed from The Community Foundation’s two disaster funds.

Middle Tennessee organizations can apply for Community Foundation flood relief grants on a rolling basis at http://www.cfmt.org/floodrelief/nonprofit/.

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Office Space Available in South Nashville

The Nashville Conflict Resolution Center (NCRC) has 1-2 offices in a ranch-style brick home available for sublet to a non-profit organization. The house is located at the intersection of Harding Place & Danby drive, between I-65 and Nolensville Road (4732 W. Longdale Drive, Nashville, TN 37211). The primary office space is approximately 14” x 16” and the second room is just a bit smaller. The $330 per room rental cost includes access to a full kitchen, large front room (for meetings), bathroom and free parking (small lot next to house for staff and larger church lot next door for guests). All utilities and monthly cleaning fee is included (except phone/DSL). The space is available starting September 1. NCRC is seeking organizations who share our vision for peace and non-violence and preferably engaging in similar work. Please call Tamara Ambar Losel or Michele Flynn at 333-8400 if interested.

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Non-profit shared/inexpensive rental space needed

Big Brothers of Nashville, a near-100-year-old agency that serves low-income families in Davidson County with rental, food, and utility assistance is looking to relocate its offices, ideally, to share space with another non-profit for a common conference room and break rooms or to a low-rent, Nashville city-limits location. Our lease is open with our landlord as we have been displaced due to the May 1 flood. For more information about Big Brothers of Nashville, visit www.bigbrothersofnashville.org or please call 310-8344 to speak with Jennifer Chalos.

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Humana Sponsoring 100k Grant for Middle TN Nonprofit

Humana is calling on all charity organizations in Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Maury, Montgomery, Robertson, Rutherford, Sumner, Williamson and Wilson counties to apply for a one-time, $100,000 grant for the first Humana Communities Benefit in Nashville charitable grant program.

The program – designed to give local not-for-profits the opportunity to receive a one-time infusion of funding to create new programs or enhance ongoing activities – is open to 501(c)(3) organizations located in the Nashville area that address the health, education and communities of local residents.

About Humana Communities Benefit

Humana Communities Benefit is designed to give local, nonprofit 501(c)(3) charitable organizations the opportunity to receive a one-time grant to create new programs or enhance ongoing activities in the areas of:

· Childhood health and education: Projects or initiatives that seek to improve health and academic achievement of children through the educational landscape

· Family wellness and active lifestyles: Projects or initiatives that strengthen the health of family through physical, social, mental, emotional, or environmental support

· Health literacy for diverse populations and seniors: Projects or initiatives dedicated to improving people’s ability to access, understand, and use health information, especially low-income populations, and seniors

Questions regarding the Humana Communities Benefit program in Nashville may be directed to Humana at 615-221-2155, press 1 and then enter extension 1030660 or hcbnashville@humana.com. All organizations based in the 10-county area interested in applying for the grant are encouraged to visit www.humana.com/HCB to download a copy of this year’s application and review program criteria. To be considered, organizations must submit an application by Friday, August 6, 2010.

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