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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As a college and graduate student, I have been told that internships are important and can open crucial doors for my career. “Get an internship and all the doors will be open,” they said. But is it really that simple and straightforward? I am a full-time graduate student with an internship and a part time job who is trying to …
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In many non-profit and ministry settings, employees need a diverse skill set. Working on the ground, especially in communities where resources are limited, requires wearing many hats and being prepared for the unexpected. I came to my internship at The Healing Trust as a third-year divinity school student, with experience in community organizing, chaplaincy, and congregational ministry. Although I have …
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When I was Board Chair of a nonprofit, I remember the conversations about needing a succession plan for our CEO. We struggled as an organization to develop one because we didn’t really know what a succession plan was. In our experience, staff transitions went like this: someone gives a two weeks’ notice, the organization posts the job, someone interviews candidates, …
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2017 was a busy year for advocates in our state. Check out the top moments from our grantees.
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The Refuge Center for Counseling was the first nonprofit to receive a Sabbatical Grant from The Healing Trust. Sabbatical Grants provide support for a nonprofit organization during a period of Sabbatical for the nonprofit CEOs/Executive Director’s renewal. Amy Alexander, LMFT and Executive Director of The Refuge Center, shared her experience utilizing this unique opportunity. What did you do during your Sabbatical? During the …
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Congratulations to the 16 nonprofits that were collectively awarded over $700,000 in our Q4 2017 Grant Cycle! This quarter’s grants brings our grant making to over $79 million since 2002. Check them out!
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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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Creating a public policy research center was not a part of our original plan. But, our realization that public policy affects everything our grantee partners do to improve the health of our community led us to change our plans. Read more about our support of public policy research.
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In 2014 we asked health-related service and advocacy organizations what additional support they needed. One priority quickly rose to the top: timely, high-quality, and nonpartisan research and analysis on public policy issues critical to our community. Read more about the origins of The Sycamore Institute, an independent, statewide, nonpartisan public policy research center for Tennessee.
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