Harvest Hands is a catalyst for community development working for wholeness in South Nashville. We work alongside our neighbors to further education, healthy living, spiritual formation, and economic development.
Girls Write Nashville is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that empowers expression through songwriting, production, mentorship and creative community building for female-identifying teen artists in Nashville, TN. We are an educational program aligned with the standards of Creative Youth Development (CYD) and Culturally Responsive Education (CRE). We envision the future of music education based as modernized, inclusive, working to close the gender gap and informed by music as a participatory-based culture in order to reap the full community building value of the arts.
In a GWN Writers Guild, participants learn to write and record original music in a supportive community of peers led by a trauma-informed teaching artist over the course of a 20 week semester. Through a partnership with MNPS’s Community Achieves, Guilds take place on-site at several Title I MNPS as well as at our Metro Center facility.
Nashville’s only music program founded specifically on the value of inclusion, we actively solve for accessibility barriers believing that when we do, our student community will accurately reflect Nashville’s true diversity and work to create a safe and inclusive path to cultural participation within our city’s music scene.
We inspire girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running.
Girls on the Run is a non-profit after-school program that uses the power of running to educate and prepare 8 to 13 year-old girls for a lifetime of self-respect and healthy living. Our research-based curriculum teaches life skills for the whole girl; body, brain, heart, spirit, and social connection. The program culminates with a celebratory, non-competitive 5k to teach a sense of accomplishment and goal setting.
Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee is the premier leadership organization for all girls to have the opportunity to pursue greatness, create sustainable change in their communities, and actively transform the world around them now and for future generations. Girl Scouts mission is to build girls of courage, confidence, and character to make the world a better place.