The Cooper Golf Challenge brings together two American classics – golf and families, and benefits Miriam’s Promise, a licensed child-placing nonprofit agency located in Nashville with the mission to ensure the well-being of the child by nurturing individuals and families. This annual golf experience is Monday, September 30, 2019 at the Old Fort Golf Course in Murfreesboro. Check-in begins at 8:15, and tee-off is at 9:00 a.m. According to Dietz Osborne (Class 58), President/CEO of Miriam’s Promise, “The Cooper Golf Challenge is a great way to raise friends, funds, and awareness for Miriam’s Promise. The format for our event is a little different in that we don’t ask our participants to “pay-to-play.” Instead, it is our hope that everyone will spread our story and invite folks to be a part of what we are doing by supporting our work financially.” There are also incentive prizes to participants who raise $1,250 and above. The registration deadline is September 23. Please support one of YLC’s nonprofit partners in this great event.
Nashville Repertory Theatre, the premiere regional theatre company in Nashville since 1985, has been named Best Professional Theatre by the Nashville Scene and the Best Local Theatre by The Tennessean. Every year, over 20,000 members of the local community get to experience a Nashville Rep production, special event, or outreach program. If you haven’t experienced the dynamic connection unique to live theatre, here’s your chance! Nashville Rep is offering a very special discount to YLC alumni and current class participants. All 2019/20 season long, use the exclusive code “YLCNASHVILLE” for 25% off when you purchase your tickets. Here’s your chance to see Urinetown The Musical on 9/14-9/29, Pipeline on 10/19-11/3, Every Brilliant Thing on 11/8-11/10, Patrick Barlow’s A Christmas Carol on 11/29-12/22, A Streetcar Named Desire on 2/8-23 or Mary Poppins on 3/27-4/5. Read all about these exciting shows and we’ll see you at the theatre!
Saddle Up! is middle Tennessee’s oldest and largest PATH International Accredited therapeutic riding center serving children and youth, ages 2-24, from 11 middle Tennessee counties. Saddle Up! provides Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, and Speech Language Therapy using the motivation and movement of the horse as a therapy tool, and adaptive riding. Saddle Up! has an established legacy of delivering positive neuromuscular, social/emotional, and cognitive health gains through the power of the horse.The nonprofit is looking for a variety of board positions and skills for its new Young Leaders Board, including Secretary, President, Nonprofit Accounting and Investment Strategist, Social Media and Web Development, Branding, Development- Volunteers, Technology-Salesforce and Prospect Management, Financial Analytics and Pediatric Disabilities Medical Professional. If interested, contact executive director Laurie Kush at lkush@saddleupnashville.org or (615) 794-1150. Learn more about SaddleUp at its website and like Saddle Up! on Facebook and Instagram.
Today Nashville Business Journal announced the winners of the 2019 Most Admired CEOs and Their Companies Awards and YLC is thrilled that nonprofit leaders were included! To assemble this year’s class of winners, nominations were solicited from the public. Nominees were grouped into categories and voted on by one another during a closed voting process to determine which area business leaders are truly most admired by their peers. There will be an awards dinner at JW Marriott Nashville on November 21 to recognize all the winners. Congratulations to our nonprofit partners who regular place YLC interns on their board of directors for “inspiring those around them, holding their employees, products and services in the highest regard and running their organizations with integrity”–Rodger Dinwiddie with STARS (Students Taking A Right Stand) Nashville; Tari Hughes with Center for Nonprofit Management (Nashville); Sharon Roberson with YWCA Nashville & Middle Tennessee; Buddy Teaster with Soles4Souls; DarKenya W. Waller with Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands and Tash Weddle with The New Beginnings Center. YLC admires all of you, too!
Participants in the upcoming two YLC fall classes were invited to attend the Lipscomb University Service Fair on 9/4/19 to meet more than 30 nonprofit organizations in person, including Martha O’Bryan Center, Preston Taylor Ministries, The Heimerdinger Foundation, Land Trust for Tennessee, Senior Ride Nashville, GraceWorks Ministries, Shower the People, Book’em, Tennessee Breast Cancer Coalition and more, to help them research potential internship placements. Thanks to Christin Shatzer with Lipscomb’s SALT (Serving and Learning Together) for letting us know about this great event! Class 73 and YLC/Williamson Chamber Class 2019 kick off their training next Thursday with an opening luncheon and first session with Derek Young discussing “Being the Ultimate Board Member” followed by 10 more weekly sessions to learn crucial skills needed for today’s board members. We can’t wait to start working with our 84 fall class participants on their internship placements!
Congratulations to Judge Lynda Jones (Class 36) for being elected to preside over the Davidson County General Sessions Court effective today (Sept. 1). Not only was she elected to General Sessions Court Division IX in 2014, she found time in her busy schedule to be a mentor in the YLC Mentor Program in 2017 and 2018, which matched recent YLC graduates with alumni to discuss professional and career issues and community service and board opportunities. She was the Nashville Business Journal Women of Influence award winner for Public Policy in 2015 and a Leadership Middle Tennessee graduate in 2018. We’re proud of you, Lynda!
