1) Preston Taylor Ministries is an after-school and mentoring program that serves children who live in the Preston Taylor neighborhood, a low-income community in northwest Nashville.

2) Inter-American Health Alliance supports community health organizations working with marginalized populations in the western highlands of Guatemala. We provide financial, technical and organizational support to our partnering organizations. We work to improve access to health care and health education through the development of innovative collaborations between governmental, non-governmental, and educational organizations.

3) Blood:Water Mission is a grassroots organization that empowers communities to work together against the HIV/AIDS and water crises. Blood:Water is building clean water projects, supporting medical facilities across Sub-Saharan Africa, and focusing on community and worldview transformation both here in American and in Africa.

4) Book’em inspire the love of books and reading in children by collecting and distributing more that 20,000 books annually to children and teens with few books of their own in middle Tennessee and by providing reading role model volunteers to underprivileged children at local preschools and elementary schools.

5) Manna Project International-Vanderbilt Chapter: “Communities Serving Communities” is the foundation of MPI’s cooperative efforts between more than one group. This means that MPI provides opportunities for college groups to travel and volunteer together, for MPI site teams to work with locals, and for MPI to partner with existing programs and missions. Service connecting those communities might be meeting health and educational needs, developing durable friendships, raising awareness and challenging the status quo, or developing leadership within those communities.

6) Dismas House of Nashville is a transitional, supportive community for former offenders. Our community was conceived by Fr. Jack Hickey and Vanderbilt students in 1974, who decided to live together and invite former offenders to live with them upon their release from prison. Dismas strives to be a small glimpse of paradise after the “hell” of prison. We offer intensive, ongoing case management and nightly programming that addresses basic life skills, substance abuse, better decision-making, and finances.

7) Ten Thousand Villages is a fair trade retailer of artisan-crafted home décor, personal accessories and gift items from across the globe, featuring products from more than 130 artisan groups in some 38 countries. We have spent more than 60 years cultivating trading relationships in which artisans receive a fair price for their work and consumers have access to distinctive handcrafted items. We seek to establish long-term buying relationships in places where skilled artisans are under- or unemployed, and in which they lack other opportunities for income. A founding member of the World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO), Ten Thousand Villages sees fair trade as an approach to conventional international trade.

8) Tennesseans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (TADP) seeks to honor life by abolishing the death penalty in Tennessee through the education and empowerment of citizens to advocate for systemic change.

9) House of Mercy serves women who are in recovery from alcohol and drug addiction and their children. In a compassionate home community, this comprehensive program collaborates with other service organization and heals families one day at a time.
10) Kasiisi Project Vanderbilt connects the Vanderbilt student body with rural school children in western Uganda. The student organization aims to provide local service as well as to spur global awareness and personal knowledge. The Vanderbilt Chapter of Kasiisi focuses on medical initiatives, girls’ support and environmental conservation interest groups.

11) Nashville Humane Society is committed to promoting humane treatment of animals, finding good homes for stray or abandoned dogs and cats, educating the public about their responsibility to help control the pet population, and providing treatment and care to ensure the well being of animals in our community.

12) Rejoice School of Ballet provides “at risk” children from low-income families excellent ballet training with a Christian focus.

13) Vanderbilt Students for Kenya (SFK) is a Vanderbilt University undergraduate student organization dedicated to community development in Lwala, a rural village in western Kenya. SFK seeks to raise awareness about Lwala and funds to support the clinic within the Nashville community.

14) Books from Birth of Middle Tennessee is a non-profit literacy program of the Imagination Library. The program provides free Dolly Parton Imagination Library books for all children from birth to 5 years of age that live in Davidson, Sumner, and Williamson Counties. A free age-appropriate book is mailed directly to the child each month. As part of the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, our mission is to increase literacy and school readiness while strengthening family bonds.

15) Siloam Family Health Center provides affordable, high-quality health care to the uninsured and those who have trouble accessing medical care because of language or financial barriers. Patients receive compassionate care in a faith-based environment that is designed to meet the whole person—physically, emotionally and spiritually.

16) Big Brothers Big Sisters helps vulnerable children beat the odds. The organization depends on donations to help recruit volunteers and reach more children. Funding is used to conduct background checks on volunteers to ensure child safety; and provide ongoing support for children, families and volunteers to build and sustain long-lasting relationships.

17) Magdalene House is a two-year residential program for women who have survived lives of abuse, addiction, and prostitution. At Thistle Farms the women operate a business, making natural bath and body products, candles, etc.

18) Sweet Sleep is a Nashville-based nonprofit organization which provides beds and bedding to the world’s orphaned and abandoned children. Sweet Sleep currently works in Moldova, Uganda and Haiti—with a special project this Christmas to proved 450 beds for children in Gulu, Uganda being resettled from their IDP camps—many of whom have been forced to serve as child soldiers in Joseph Kony’s LRA army.

19) St. Luke’s Community House has been serving the people of West Nashville since 1913. Our mission is to help low-income working families, seniors, and individuals in West Nashville achieve their potential and prevent problems that threaten the stability of families and community.

20) Hippo Water International aims to improve global access to water. For 1 in 6 people worldwide, access to water means hours of walking and heavy lifting. The Hippo’s innovative design allows water to be placed inside its “wheel”, transforming 200 pounds of water to an effective weight of just 22 pounds. One trip provides enough water to meet the basic needs of 5 people per day. Fewer trips to collect water means women and children can spend more time on educational and economic pursuits. Hippo focuses on reducing the negative social, economic and health consequences of carrying heavy loads of water over long distances.

21) The Lost Boys Foundation of Nashville exists to enhance the lives of the Lost Boys of Sudan living in the Nashville area by assisting with such things as food, housing, medical, education and other emergency needs. We also have a studio and art gallery featuring art by the Lost Boys of Sudan, which provides an additional source of income for these young men.

22) GirlForce is a wellness program that encourages girls to exercise, eat for health and pleasure, feel good about their bodies, and avoid smoking and other destructive habits for managing weight and stress. Advanced workshops reconnect girls with nature through recreational sports and outdoor adventures. GirlForce workshops are provided free of charge to preteen and teenage girls in Nashville area schools. We also train workshop leaders to provide GirlForce in communities, nationwide.
 
23) Nations Ministry Center joins hands with Nashville's refugee community by providing services and programs to assist newcomers on their journey to genuine self-sufficiency. Refugees are resettled by the United States government and have lived through the most horrid of conditions as they fled, often for many years, war and persecution. Nations Ministry Center serves refugees by promoting access to education opportunities, by providing after-school tutoring for youth and English classes for adults, by engaging refugee preschoolers in creative learning, and by providing essential social services to individual families. 


24) Music for the Soul creates award-winning topical song and spoken words CDs and DVDs from a Christian faith based perspective.

25) Juntos Servimos is a response to invitations from leaders of distressed colonias in Matamoros, Mexico to assist them in their efforts to transform their communities. Our response to the invitation from the people of the colonias is through Casa Bugambilia, a community of volunteers dedicated to serving the residents of the colonias in the areas of medical care and education.

26) African Leadership is a Christian education and development organization that trains pastors and church leaders in Africa and funds relief and development projects in their communities. African Leadership oversees Ellie’s Run for Africa, which is the God-given dream a 10-year old Nashville girl to help families and children in Africa. The community event combines a 5K-cross country race and family fun day. The 6th annual Ellie’s Run for Africa will be May 22, 2010 at Percy Warner Park.

27) Heifer Project takes a holistic approach to build sustainable communities, end world hunger and poverty, and care for the earth. Heifer provides both "no-interest living loans" in the form of livestock, as well as small monetary loans to help people start and expand businesses. Heifer also supports urban agriculture projects, gender equity, HIV/AIDS education, education on environmentally sound agricultural techniques, and youth-focused programs.

28) Wesley/Canterbury Fellowship is the Methodist and Episcopal Campus Ministry at Vanderbilt which seeks to benefit our work this year with Room in the Inn, a program with Nashville’s Campus for Human Development.

29) Conexión Américas helps Latino families realize their aspirations for social and economic advancement by promoting their integration into the Middle Tennessee community. Café Rumba Roast directly supports Conexión Américas and the many programs and resources they provide.