This fall, Vine Street Christian Church received 28 applications for Community Ministry Grants for the 2024-2025 funding year.
The Community Ministry Grants team, chaired by Pat Cole, reviewed all applications for impact, mission, sustainability, and other criteria, and recommended that the Administrative Council fund all grants at the amount requested.
This year we were able to fund 22 of the requests!
This past week, we mailed checks totaling $20,200, funded by annual contributions by our members and friends and we continue to make use of the Hallie Warner Needy Elderly Fund for applications doing work with the elderly community in Nashville.
Thank you to all who contributed, and to the Community Ministry Grants team: Cate Mart, Dair Grubb, Stephen Moseley, Jeff Miller, Martha Bishop, Kathy Zamata, Ed Cole and Pat Cole, chair.
Below are this year’s grant recipients and their funded projects:
Alameda CC Backpack Ministry - To fund backpacks and school supplies for K-12 students.
Cosecha - To support part-time program manager (Laura Dorris) for two garden sites
Ella’s House - Improve nursery crib, baby supplies, changing table,trained childcare workers
Harvest Hands CDC - Three locations of after school care in South Nashville for snacks and meals.
Heartbound Ministries - Support Little Readers program where parents reading books to their children are recorded
Justice Industries - To expand glass recycling, bins to allow more jobs
Mary Parrish Center - Emergency financial assistance for Transitional Housing and Rapid Re-housing program participants
Matthew 25 - Fund for personal, medicine storage boxes for residents.
Nashville Adult Literacy Council - Funding to support personnel for 4 priorities
Oak Cottage 2019 - Residence for incarcerated women 6 mo-1 year, addiction recovery, counseling. Grant for Household Closet
Open Table - Purchase winter outreach supplies, sleeping bags, propane,blankets
United4Hope - Operation Andrew - Grant to help expand United4Hope to other middle schools
Pawsters - Provide foster care for animals of homeless, victims of domestic violence, natural disasters.Grant will provide vet care,vaccinations, microchip, spay/neuter.
Penuel Ridge - Two day retreat for 24 homeless women in Life Recovery Program at Nashville Rescue Mission
PLAN Preserve Lindsley Ave - Additional storage racks and bins for clothing ministry off-season donations. Serves about 40 people.
Preston Taylor Ministries - To fund KiwiCo education kits for Wilson county new discovery zone partial reading support for 25 kids
Tennessee Innocence Project - To free innocent Tennesseans who are locked up for crimes they did not commit, education and policy reform
TN Prison Outreach Ministry - To help provide a free one week camp for children of incarcerated. Spiritual and recreational development
Senior Renaissance Center - To enhance quality of life for older adults, providing yoga and exercise classes, art supplies, Cohn HS
Senior Ride Nashville - To provide rides through a combination of paid drivers and volunteers
Urban Housing Solutions - To support healthcare needs of seniors, purchase glasses, pay medical and dental co-pays for clients at Age to Perfection
Westminster Home Connection - To renovate five houses for older adults, allowing older persons to remain in their homes