Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Healing Trust In The News”
Every year, we produce a board report on grantee outcomes. Generally, 10-15% of grantees do not meet their intended outcomes and reasons can vary. This year, however, we saw a consistent theme for outcomes not being met – staff turnover. As a result, grantees did not meet their outcomes, and more importantly, clients did not receive services during the turnover. …
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Self-care is currently having a moment – from articles and news segments on mindfulness and meditation, to journals and coloring books on store shelves. Recently, even the term self-care has become more mainstream – a positive development towards promoting the concept. At The Healing Trust, we believe it is so essential that we developed retreats that specifically focus on self-care. …
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I thought I had the answers when it came to advocating for myself and my family. I earned a Master’s degree in Social Work and worked with advocates and organizers, so I thought I knew about individual advocacy. The premature birth of my daughter, Evelyn, taught me how much I didn’t know. My husband, Max, and I were overjoyed to …
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Hiring communications staff is usually not at the top of mind for small foundations, but having a communications-focused staff member can also be beneficial to smaller foundations. Find out how we made it work.
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While having a small shop can be challenging, size doesn’t have to prevent you from doing great work. Check out these 5 tips from our Program and Communications Officer, Jennifer Oldham.
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Our long- time CFO, Matt Deeb, is leaving The Trust in early May to work for a local investment firm. His career began with the then Baptist Healing Trust on March 1, 2004. Many of you know Matt as a patient budget coach, a financial guru, and as the lone male on our staff. Around the office, Matt is known …
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An Unexpected Call October 22, 2012 started a new journey for me – one as a widow and a single mom. In the prior nine months, my husband Jim and I adopted a newborn baby girl, moved from California to Nashville, bought a house, and started new jobs – me with the State and Jim teaching in Williamson County. Jim …
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Our grant reviewers appreciate the time and energy that you spend creating great grant proposals. For each grant application that we review, the grant reviewers capture the strengths and the opportunities for improvement for each of the proposals. Here are the top 10 mistakes that we see in grant proposals: The needs assessment section needs more detail. There will always …
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