The West End Home Foundation presented checks totaling $1.68 million to thirty-three nonprofit agencies at their annual grant awards breakfast on January 5, 2018. These agencies provide critically needed services to older adults in the Middle Tennessee region and all have achieved a high standard of excellence with measurable impact. The lives of older adults are enriched everyday through the programs and services that benefit from Foundation support.
The $1.68 million were distributed across agencies and impact areas as follows:
Advocacy: $304,000.00
Council on Aging of Middle Tennessee
Mid-Cumberland Human Resource Agency
Nashville Public Television
Tennessee Justice Center
Vanderbilt University
You Have The Power Know How to Use It
Enrichment and Socialization: $178,750.00
Bethlehem Centers of Nashville
Music for Seniors
Nashville Public Library Foundation
Nations Ministry Center
FiftyForward
St. Luke’s Community House
Food and Nutrition: $206,250.00
Bethlehem Centers of Nashville
Cedar Seniors, Inc.
FiftyForward
Martha O’Bryan Center
Nashville Food Project
St. Luke’s Community House
Healthcare: $382,000.00
Community Helpers
Faith Family Medical Center
Friends in General
Insight Counseling Center
Interfaith Dental Clinic
Matthew Walker Comprehensive Health Center
Siloam Health
Housing: $232,500.00
Community Helpers
NeedLink Nashville
Rooftop Foundation
Room in the Inn
Westminster Home Connection
Transportation: $111,500.00
Senior Ride Nashville
Tennessee Kidney Foundation
Wellness and Supportive Care: $253,000.00
Catholic Charities
Community Resource Center
FiftyForward
Lebanon Senior Citizens Center
Martha O’Bryan Center
Mental Health Association of Middle Tennessee
Tennessee Respite Coalition
The annual grant awards breakfast has become a signature event of The West End Home Foundation. Foundation Board and staff members consider it both an opportunity to honor the exemplary service provided by this remarkable group of nonprofit agency professionals and a forum to bring together diverse agencies that serve older adults. Recipient agencies welcome the networking opportunity and report that the breakfast has helped establish relationships with other providers that have later resulted in new partnerships and collaborations
