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The Frist Foundation recognizes that the 2020 pandemic is having a profound impact on all of our lives. Coupled with spring tornadoes, large-scale layoffs, personal economic hardship, and calls for racial justice, Nashville’s landscape is changing on a scale that we can’t yet fully see.
We want to be as helpful as possible at this time so that nonprofits can continue to focus on the vital work of supporting the most vulnerable people in our communities. While we understand the need for constant adjustment as the current situation continues to evolve, we are doing the following:
If interested in funding from The Frist Foundation, contact Corinne Bergeron at corinne.bergeron@fristfoundation.org or Pete Bird at peter.bird@fristfoundation.org.
$25,000
Support for planning the rebuilding of Second Avenue. Paid: 2/12/2021
$15,000
For extraordinary expenses in connection with the community response to the Christmas Day bombing in downtown Nashville. Paid: 1/4/2021
Unrestricted funding to respond to victim and volunteer needs resulting from the Christmas Day explosion in downtown Nashville. Paid: 12/29/2020
To address an anticipated shortfall in the Salvation Army’s traditional kettle drive due to COVID-19. The drive supports outreach to encampments and efforts to move clients into permanent housing. Paid: 12/16/2020
To renovate new space to house the agency, whose previous offices were damaged by tornadoes earlier this year. Paid: 12/1/2020
Support for a research project that will examine Nashville’s response to COVID-19. Paid: 10/13/2020
$5,000
At a time when COVID-19 restrictions have cut off NPF’s only income stream, this grant will retain a consultant to explore ways that NPF can work with Centennial Park and others to better coordinate efforts to support Metro’s park system. Paid: 9/18/2020
To help reinforce operating support as partner agencies struggle with the impact of COVID-19 on their budgets. Paid: 9/15/2020
Additional support for a fund to help nonprofit agencies defray the cost of working remotely. Paid: 8/27/2020
Support for COVID response related needs for Carter Lawrence students. Paid: 8/7/2020
$40,000
Emergency housing for 15-20 homeless people who are medically vulnerable and at-risk to obtain and spread COVID-19. Paid: 7/22/2020
Support for technology enabling the station’s journalists to work more effectively from home during the pandemic. 7/1/2020
To support the organization’s rising caseload involving healthcare and nutrition benefits lost due to COVID-19 shutdowns. 6/24/2020
Translation services for nonprofits distributing health information related to COVID-19. 6/17/2020
To support COVID-response expenses, including the purchase of health and safety items to meet increased demand, as well as any COVID-response storage and oversight expenses brought on by increased capacity. 6/10/2020
To support a partnership with Vanderbilt Law School that would engage at least eight students during the 2020-21 school year and extend legal services to at least 30 more clients. 6/9/2020
To distribute 1,500 COVID-19 relief kits to low-income seniors and disabled residents of MDHA properties. 6/1/2020
$100,000
To help provide medical care to homeless encampments. 6/1/2020
$150,000
To expand support for small businesses led by minorities, women and veterans at a time when COVID-19 is disproportionately hurting those businesses. 5/29/2020
$250,000
To help operate emergency childcare for children of first responders in the wake of COVID-19. 5/28/20
$20,000
Final grant for the Remote Working Mini Grants Fund managed by CNM and Hands On Nashville. 5/26/2020 See recipients.
$10,000
To provide self-care and wellness services free of charge to frontline workers. 5/18/2020
To integrate the client database with a new cloud-based system, vastly accelerating the agency’s outreach and client service capabilities during the pandemic. 5/12/2020
To address client needs ranging from food to technology pointed out by the COVID-19 pandemic. 5/7/2020
To launch a new business doing deep cleaning and disinfecting for customers dealing with the COVID-19 virus. 5/5/2020
$8,000
To move phone system to the cloud so that employees can respond to increase in helpline calls due to COVID-19. 4/29/2020
Support for diaper purchases to meet increased demand in the face of COVID-19. 4/28/2020
Purchase of new software in response to COVID-19 that allows Bridges to more efficiently provide HIPAA compliant VRI to their deaf and hard of hearing communities. 4/24/2020
Support for efforts to provide medical supplies to local hospitals, clinics, senior living facilities and the Nashville Office of Emergency Management. 4/23/2020
To provide hotel vouchers and case management services to homeless community members that are especially vulnerable to COVID-19. 4/23/2020
Additional support for the Remote Working Mini Grants Fund. 4/22/20 See recipients.
Support for COVID-19 relief kits to be distributed to general public. 4/22/2020
Deep cleaning of both shelters for one month to guard against COVID outbreak. 4/10/2020
To establish Remote Working Mini Grants Fund. 4/10/2020 See recipients.
To work with Affordable Housing Resources to help North Nashville homeowners head off foreclosure of homes that were damaged or destroyed by the March 3, 2020, tornado. 4/8/2020
$1,000,000
Support for employees impacted by the COVID disaster. 4/7/2020
Support for the COVID-19 Response Fund to help those affected by the COVID-19 virus, both economically and medically. 3/19/2020
Emergency grant for COVID-19 and Tornado Response. 3/17/2020
Deep cleaning of both shelters for one month to guard against COVID outbreak. 3/17/2020
Support for the McGruder Center tornado response, especially in the immediate North Nashville neighborhood. 3/17/2020
Support for tornado relief efforts in North Nashville. 3/12/2020
Support for tornado relief efforts. 3/11/2020
Support for tornado relief efforts. 3/9/2020
To address emergency needs resulting from tornadoes and the COVID-19 virus. 3/9/2020