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Category: Grantee Story

Three Years after March 2020 Tornadoes, Generosity Continues To Make a Difference

March 2, 2023 CFMT

Preparation Key As Severe Weather Season Arrives Three years after deadly and destructive tornadoes swept through Middle Tennessee in the…

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Two Years After March Tornadoes, Nashville Woman Counts Her Blessings as Rebuilt Home Awaits Completion

March 2, 2022 CFMT

If patience is a virtue, as the proverbial saying goes, you will seldom find a person more virtuous than Demetrius…

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Connecting the Dots for Wilson County Tornado Survivors

February 17, 2021 CFMT

A clear and rigid boundary between those of us who can fend for ourselves and those who cannot does not…

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“Nobody Had a Game Plan for This…”

January 21, 2021 CFMT 1 Comment

Through a collaborative community effort after the March 2020 tornado, Carol Wilson finally returns home. It was 2 a.m. on…

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CFMT Grantee: Feeding North Nashville Tornado Survivors Continues for Project Connect Nashville

November 17, 2020 CFMT

UPDATED 03/01: The following story includes original reporting, as well as updated information provided by CFMT and Project Connect Nashville’s…

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Westminster Home Connection Tackles Tasks of Rebuilding After Tornadoes

November 12, 2020 CFMT

UPDATED 03/01: The following story includes original reporting, as well as updated information provided by CFMT and Westminster Home Connection’s…

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Nashville Diaper Connection

CFMT Grantee: Tornadoes, Pandemic Don’t Dampen Nashville Diaper Connection’s Efforts

October 7, 2020 CFMT

The nonprofit organization Nashville Diaper Connection was launched in June 2013 by Doug Adair and strives to ensure that every…

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CFMT Grantee: Affordable Housing Resources Stays on Tornado-Relief Course

September 22, 2020 CFMT

‘This Has Dissolved into Disaster at the National Level’ UPDATED 03/01: The following story includes original reporting, as well as…

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Posted in: Grantee Story Filed under: Affordable Housing Resources, CFMT Grantee, Nashville Tornado
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CFMT Grantee: ‘To Act in the Relief of Human Suffering’

September 1, 2020 CFMT

For decades, UMCOR Arrives After Disaster Strikes UPDATED 03/01: The following story includes original reporting, as well as updated information…

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CFMT Grantee: When Disasters Strike, It’s Nice to Know CRC Has The Necessities of Life Covered

August 10, 2020 CFMT

Nashville-based Community Resource Center (CRC) serves more than 100 nonprofit agencies, providing them with new household goods, bedding, kitchenware, cleaning…

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CFMT Grantee: ‘It Takes a Village, and a Village Nashville was’

August 3, 2020 CFMT

UPDATED 03/01: The following story includes original reporting, as well as updated information provided by CFMT and Hands on Nashville’s…

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Out of the Storms Came a Beautiful Rainbow Called Recover Wilson

July 9, 2020 CFMT

Recover Wilson represents a coordinated effort for tornado recovery in Wilson County, comprising churches and other nonprofit groups in Mt.…

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CFMT Grantee: The Importance of Neighborhoods in Rebuilding and Recovery Efforts

July 1, 2020 CFMT

UPDATED 03/01: The following story includes original reporting, as well as updated information provided by CFMT and Neighbor 2 Neighbor’s…

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CFMT Grantee: Farm’s counseling work remains vital to Wilson County tornado recovery efforts

June 29, 2020 CFMT

UPDATED 03/01: The following story includes original reporting, as well as updated information provided by CFMT and Lantern Lane Farm’s…

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CFMT Grantee: When disasters strike, Latinos rely on Conexión Américas

June 12, 2020 CFMT

Founded in 2002, Conexión Américas builds a welcoming community and creates opportunities where Latino families can belong, contribute and succeed.…

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CFMT Grantee: At This Putnam County School, Disaster Response Training Is Part of Curriculum

June 10, 2020 CFMT

Founded in 1994, Heritage Academy is a self-supporting, coeducational, Seventh Day Adventist college-preparatory boarding high school located in Monterey, Tennessee…

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CFMT Grantee: Heart of the Cumberland

CFMT Grantee: In wake of tornado devastation and pandemic, Putnam County welcomes peer counseling

May 28, 2020 CFMT

UPDATED 03/01: The following story includes original reporting, as well as updated information provided by CFMT and Heart of the…

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CFMT Grantee: In Wilson County, church congregations critical in tornado relief efforts

May 26, 2020 CFMT

UPDATED 03/01: The following story includes original reporting, as well as updated information provided by CFMT and Compassionate Hands’ coordinator…

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CFMT Grantee : Broken Restored Redeemed Minitries

CFMT Grantee: Midstate nonprofit practices what it preaches in tornado-torn Lebanon, Hermitage communities

May 13, 2020 CFMT

UPDATED 03/01: The following story includes original reporting, as well as updated information provided by CFMT and Broken Resored Redeemed…

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CFMT Grantee: Interdenominational Ministers Fellowship

CFMT Grantee: Relief is coming to displaced beauty, barber shops along historic Jefferson Street corridor

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UPDATED 03/01: The following story includes original reporting, as well as updated information provided by CFMT and Interdenominational Ministers Fellowship…

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CFMT Grantee: Helping the music community cope amid disastrous tornadoes, pandemic, job loss

May 8, 2020 CFMT

Music Health Alliance (MHA) is music’s resource for healthcare solutions and access. In 2006, Tatum Allsep, MHA’s founder, began documenting…

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CFMT Grantee: Hit hard by tornado, COVID-19, The Contributor vendors continue selling

May 1, 2020 CFMT

UPDATED 03/01: The following story includes original reporting, as well as updated information provided by CFMT and The Contributor’s executive…

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CFMT Grantee: Purple Heart Honoree Goes “Around the Clock” to Keep Fellow Vets Connected

April 22, 2020 CFMT

Operation Stand Down Tennessee (OSDTN) provides and connects Veterans and their families with comprehensive resources focused on transition, employment, housing,…

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CFMT Grantee: Cookeville Hospital Shoulders Patient Costs for Tornado Victims

April 14, 2020 CFMT

UPDATED 03/01: The following story includes original reporting, as well as updated information provided by CFMT and Cookeville Regional Charitable…

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CFMT Grantee: Gideon’s Army mobilizes its neighborhood troops

April 8, 2020 CFMT

Gideon’s Army is a community-based, grassroots organization that uses restorative justice programs to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline through social activism…

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CFMT Grantee: Backfield in Motion trying to keep things ’normal’

April 3, 2020 CFMT

UPDATED 03/01: The following story includes original reporting, as well as updated information provided by CFMT and Hands on Nashville’s…

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Posted in: Grantee Story Filed under: Backfield In Motion, CFMTgrantee
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CFMT Grantee: Second Harvest Makes Urgent Appeal for Donations

April 2, 2020 CFMT

UPDATED 03/01: The following story includes original reporting, as well as updated information provided by CFMT and Second Harvest Food…

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