Updates

Preparation Key As Severe Weather Season Arrives Three years after deadly and destructive tornadoes swept through Middle Tennessee in the early hours of March 3, 2020, rebuilding is winding down to the last few homes. For many survivors, shattered hearts and broken families and businesses can only be mended so ...
Read More

If patience is a virtue, as the proverbial saying goes, you will seldom find a person more virtuous than Demetrius Wide. It has been nearly two years since a tornado destroyed her modest North Nashville home, the one her daddy left her, shaking it off its foundation, ripping through walls ...
Read More

CFMT Releases Report to the Community on Middle Tennessee Emergency Response Fund What took mere minutes to crush buildings and shatter lives has taken many months to mend. This week marks one year since a series of late-night and early morning tornadoes swept through Tennessee, leaving behind a path of ...
Read More

A clear and rigid boundary between those of us who can fend for ourselves and those who cannot does not exist. Millions of us teeter perilously on the margin of survival, one unfortunate event away from tumbling headfirst into the unknown. For many Middle Tennesseans, that event was the March ...
Read More

Through a collaborative community effort after the March 2020 tornado, Carol Wilson finally returns home. It was 2 a.m. on March 3, 2020, when LaToria Wilson’s phone rang. It was her brother. He said a tornado had devastated their mother Carol’s neighborhood. LaToria lived in Antioch, and — shocked — ...
Read More

UPDATED 03/01: The following story includes original reporting, as well as updated information provided by CFMT and Project Connect Nashville's Co-Founder and Director of Development and Volunteers, Michell Murdock. Project Connect Nashville was founded in 2013 to bring hope to the hurting community of Madison (just a few minutes north ...
Read More

UPDATED 03/01: The following story includes original reporting, as well as updated information provided by CFMT and Westminster Home Connection's executive director, Keith Branson. Westminster Home Connection begins by asking “What does it take for this person to age in place safely at home and with dignity?” The nonprofit provides ...
Read More

And the rebuilding continues. The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee announces 14 additional grants totaling more than $1.2 million — $1,274,091 —to area nonprofits and organizations helping those affected by the deadly and destructive tornadoes of March 3. The Middle Tennessee Emergency Response Fund advisory committee approved several grants in ...
Read More

Focus Remains on Identifying, Helping Tornado Survivors as Rebuild Efforts Launch In neighborhood after unlucky neighborhood in Davidson County, including North Nashville and Germantown, East Nashville, Donelson and Hermitage, telltale signs remind you of the death and destruction caused by Tennessee’s tornadoes in early March. Blue tarp substitutes for a ...
Read More

The nonprofit organization Nashville Diaper Connection was launched in June 2013 by Doug Adair and strives to ensure that every baby in Davidson County has enough diapers to stay clean, dry and healthy. It has received $45,000 in grants from the Middle Tennessee Emergency Response Fund. Nothing like tornadoes and ...
Read More

‘This Has Dissolved into Disaster at the National Level’ UPDATED 03/01: The following story includes original reporting, as well as updated information provided by CFMT and Affordable Housing Resource's Cheif Executive Officer, Eddie Latimer. Since forming more than 30 years ago, Nashville-based nonprofit organization Affordable Housing Resources, Inc. (AHR) has ...
Read More

CFMT Releases Report to the Community; Middle Tennessee Emergency Response Fund Makes 8 new grants Thursday, Sept. 3 marks six months since a series of tornadoes swept through Tennessee, leaving behind a path of death and destruction. The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee released a six-month report to the community ...
Read More