The Frist Foundation Awards of Achievement recognizes excellence in Middle Tennessee nonprofit organizations in three categories: Innovation in Action, Making a Difference, and Team Building.

• Finalists in the 2010 Innovation in Action category are: Mercy Children’s Clinic, Rooftop, and Tennessee Wildlife Federation.

• Finalists in the 2010 Making a Difference category are: Books from Birth of Middle Tennessee, Hands On Nashville, Inc., and Middle Tennessee Council, Boy Scouts of America, Inc.

• Finalists in the 2010 Team Building category are: Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands, Nashville Area Habitat for Humanity, and Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee.

Baptist Healing Trust and Erie Chapman Foundation Servant’s Heart Award recognizes individuals who are providing care and/or assistance to the clients of a nonprofit agency and who are on the “front lines” of the service profession.

• Finalists for the 2010 Servant’s Heart Award are: Sandra Roberts of the Center for Family and Development, Laz O’Leary of Monroe Harding, inc. and Paula Markham of Ronald McDonald House Charities of Nashville.

Baptist Healing Trust Healing Charity Award recognizes a nonprofit where love and compassion characterize its delivery of service.

• Finalists for the 2010 Healing Charity Award are: Big Brothers Big Sisters of Middle Tennessee, Hope House, Maury County Center Against Domestic Violence, and Interfaith Dental Clinic.

The Bank of America Chief Executive Officer of the Year Award highlights the importance of executive leadership in an organization’s achievement of mission-related results.

• Finalists for the 2010 CEO of the Year Award are: Melba Marcrum of McNeilly Center for Children, William J. Burleigh of Operation Stand Down Nashville and Jude White of Renewal House.

The KraftCPAs Board Member of the Year Award recognizes board members who go the extra mile for their organizations.

• Finalists for the 2010 Board Member of the Year Award are: Dr. Eugene Regen of Disciples Divinity House at Vanderbilt, Randy Laszewski of Nashville Area Habitat for Humanity, and Tim Garrett of Tennessee Kidney Foundation, Inc.

The Marvin Runyon Leadership Award is presented to a nonprofit agency that has demonstrated sound management strategy in the heat of crisis.

• Finalists for the 2010 Marvin Runyon Leadership Award are: BrightStone, Nashville Safe Haven Family Shelter, Inc., and YWCA of Nashville and Middle Tennessee.

The Ford Motor Company Excellence in Communications Award is presented to the organization that exemplifies the best strategies for planning and executing a communications program designed to advance the mission of the organization.

• Finalists for the 2010 Excellence in Communications Award are: Cumberland Heights, Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee, and Sexual Assault Center.

Salute to Excellence 2010 will be held at the Nashville Renaissance Hotel on September 21, 2010. Nine awards and over $160,000 in grants will be awarded. The awards recognize nonprofits for a job well done and reinforce the importance of effective leadership in the nonprofit sector. The breadth of the awards extends not only to the work of organizations, but includes individual honors for deserving executives and board members. For more information on Salute to Excellence, or to purchase a table, contact Corinne Ciocia at Corinne@cnm.org.

NashvilleBusinessRecovery.org includes resources for businesses affected by the flood, and an online form to gather detailed information that will be used to effectively facilitate contributions from the Nashville business community:

“The Nashville area is fortunate to have hundreds of organizations and businesses that have already assisted in flood response and recovery,” Mayor Dean said. “Clearly, the impact of the flood on business, as well as individuals, is significant. The support of the business community through the Business Response Team is critical as we continue working to help our city rebuild.”

Based on an assessment of property parcels impacted by the flood, an estimated 2,728 Davidson County businesses in 36 separate zip codes sustained damage. These businesses employ a minimum of 9,447 workers and have total annual revenues in excess of $3 billion. Nearly half of the damaged property parcels with businesses operating on them had more than 50 percent of the value of their land and structures damaged.

The Business Response Team website, NashvilleBusinessRecovery.org, will act as a portal for businesses that want to contribute to flood recovery efforts and will connect businesses impacted by the flood with needed resources.

Continue reading ‘Business Response Team Launches Web site’

CNM is pleased to announce that Katy McWhirter has joined the CNM team as our new Member Services Coordinator. Katy is a recent graduate of Belmont University, where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Social Entrepreneurship. Katy has experience in working with nonprofit organizations and we are confident that she will meet and exceed your membership needs. We welcome you to reach out to her as the newest members of CNM family at katy@cnm.org or 615-259-0100.

Sarah Townsend will be leaving us this summer to pursue a Masters in Nonprofit Management at Indiana University. Avé Trotter will be taking over as the Training Program Manager and Corinne Ciocia as the Director of Communications and Development.

Congressman Cooper has released a step-by-step guide for small businesses in need of assistance from FEMA.

Agencies are reaching out to other nonprofits to offer office space and support. Here are a couple of individuals that have reached out to CNM and asked us to pass along information. Feel free to post in the comments if your agency has space for nonprofit organizations that have flood damage:

Monroe Harding is here if you need anything. All of our houses, campus, and the center are fine and we would like to open up our campus to any organization that may need it. On campus we have an empty house, and our gym and dinning room can be used for temporary storage or office space.

My thoughts and prayers are with everyone who is experiencing flood related issues. Please let me know if there is any way Monroe Harding can help.

Patty Harman
CEO
Monroe Harding
Work (615) 298 -5573 ext. 119
pattyharman@monroeharding.org

W.O. Smith Music School is closed today and will re-open when appropriate. Our building is fine. We have space available to other non-profits if they need a place to open temporary offices or space for meetings. Please let us know how we can help.

Jonah Rabinowitz
Executive Director
W.O. Smith Music School
jonahr@wosmith.org

The FY11 Metro Government Community Enhancement Fund grant was announced April 8, and details, handbook, and the application form are available on the CEF FY11 website at:

http://www.nashville.gov/finance/grants_coordination/CEF/index_fy11.asp

Applications are due May 7 and applicants must ATTEND THE REQUIRED ORIENTATION SESSION WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21 at 2:00 p.m. in the Downtown Library Auditorium in order to be eligible to apply!

 Tiffy Barnett, Division of Grants Coordination

222 Third Avenue, North PO Box 196300

Nashville, Tn. 37219-6300

Phone: (615) 862-5443

From today’s Davidson AM:

Clothes4Soles could be launched in the next 12 months, according to initial business plans.

The nonprofit will continue to donate and distribute shoes. It has set a goal of distributing 30 million pairs of shoes in the next five years – five times more than what has already gone out. Numerous celebrities have associated their names and helped with fundraising events for Soles4Souls.

Clothes4Soles would operate as a separate brand, distributing clothing that is donated in similar fashion to how shoes are given. Details still are being worked out, Elsey said.

Volunteer Tennessee has announced the release of the AmeriCorps Notice of Funding Opportunity and AmeriCorps*State Application Instructions for the 2010-2011 program year:

AmeriCorps is a federally funded national service program that connects more than 70,000 Americans each year in intensive service to meet the country’s critical needs in education, the environment, health, veterans, and economic opportunity. AmeriCorps grants are awarded to eligible organizations that identify an unmet critical need in their community that will be addressed by AmeriCorps members that the organization recruits, trains, and manages.

Agencies interested in applying can find the complete Notice of Funding Opportunity and application instructions on Volunteer Tennessee’s web site at www.volunteertennessee.net.

 For more information, contact, Rayna Coe, AmeriCorps Program Manager, at rayna.coe@tn.gov or 615-253-6313 or Jamie S. Dent, AmeriCorps Program Manager, at jamie.s.dent@tn.gov or 615-532-9415.

 

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