Category: At-risk Youth
Amanda Root: Finding Families and Homes for Children in Need
As a mother of four, Amanda Root found herself pulled to serve children. Having adopted kids herself, she knows the important role that people like her play in assisting children who are either in state custody or who would be without redirection. As the founder and Executive Director of a private nonprofit called Hope’s Bridge...
Ann Marie Nordgren: Finding purpose serving those who are vulnerable
Ann Marie Nordgren views volunteering not only as a way to help others, but as an opportunity to learn from those who are vulnerable, and expand one’s own perspective. Ann Marie’s journey in serving others began with her family in Ohio. She grew up in a large, catholic family, received a catholic education, where serving...
Service in Her School
Written By: Emma de la Pena Many can look back on memories in their lifetime and think about their first strike of inspiration. For Sassy Neuman, this moment happened in the 4th grade when she was watching a documentary on foster care children and the foster care system. Immediately after watching this documentary, she felt...
Featured Volunteer: Jason
Listen to Jason, a husband, father of two, and a young professional, as he talks about the heart of a person. What happens to children after their court date? How do they move forward in a meaningful way? These are just two of many ways the Juvenile Justice Center impacts children & their families throughout...
Giving the Gift of Time
Life experiences are often the best teachers and influencers of how we form our values and priorities. This has become powerfully evident in the mindful way that Fatema Chaklasi and her family volunteer within their own community of middle Tennessee. Inspired by their own modest origins in Mumbai and their move to the United States...
A Calm Light for Others
Alli Crews is a light in Nashville, Tennessee. She was born in Murfreesboro and adopted at a few weeks old. She was raised in an incredibly loving family in Nashville where she finished high school before heading to Texas for college. There she studied French, pursuing a way to connect and engage with new peoples...
Walk Into Your Kingdom
By: Annie Low Carleigh Frazier, this month’s Nashville Volunteer of the Month, is a senior Biology major at Fisk University. She recently had the pleasure of running for Miss Fisk University and her platform was based on Deuteronomy 1:5-8. This verse reminds her that in the midst of struggle and grief, “that my purpose is...
Advocating for his community
Keith McLean Written by: Cole Gray Keith McLean of Franklin is Doing Good’s Nashville Volunteer of the Month for his work in advocating for the North Nashville community around Jefferson Street. McLean, a graduate of Middle Tennessee State University, is involved with Jefferson Street United Merchants’ Partnership, Elam Mental Health Center at Meharry Medical College...
