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8th annual Big Payback raises over $4.2 million for Middle Tennessee organizations WaTeasa Freeman, Nashville Tennessean The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee raised more than $4.2 million during its eighth annual 24-hour online fundraising event The Big Payback on May 5. About 33,000 donors participated. An event-record 1,017 Middle Tennessee organizations from 33 counties participated, including 87 organizations from 12 counties that were participating in The Big Payba...

John Wark, founder of the Nashville Software School, intends to be a key supplier of some of the 8,500 tech jobs Oracle plans to bring to Nashvilles East Bank in the next decade. But he’s depending on word of mouth to get there. Founded in 2012, NSS is a nonprofit that prepares people for jobs in web design, data science, coding and myriad other common positions in tech. The venture defers the bulk of students’ tuition not just until after graduation but also job placement and establi...

You Can Make a Difference in Our Community! May 04, 2021 at 05:45 am by WGNS MURFREESBORO — “The Big Payback is a 24-hour online giving event that helps organizations like the Child Advocacy Center raise funds and bring awareness to their cause,” said Development Coordinator Katie Enzor.    The Child Advocacy Center and other Middle Tennessee non-profit agencies are participating in the 2021 Big Payback.  This is the 8th year that the annual event has been hos...

The Big Payback: Community-wide day of giving starts tonight The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee and last updated 2021-05-05 12:40:28-04 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A 24-hour, community-wide day of giving starts at 6 p.m. Wednesday. The Big Payback is an annual event presented by The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee (CFMT) in which hundreds of local nonprofits participate. "The Big Payback annually hosts more than 900 organizations and helps lift them up by providing tools...

Tweet Share In case your email inbox hasnt overwhelmed you with reminders, heres another: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessees Big Payback, now in its eighth year, begins today, May 5, at 6 p.m., and runs for 24 hours. The long and short of the event is that nonprofits of all stripes make a huge push for donations this time every year. CFMTs sponsors kick in nearly a quarter-million dollars in incentives and prizes, further ratcheting up the fundraising efforts. Theres ...

COLUMBIA, Tenn. — Greg Kroeker couldnt stop staring at the man with the unusual prosthetic leg in front of him at Lowes. The leg has a "C"-shaped piece of hard-yet-bouncy plastic between the knee and the plastic foot in a sneaker. "Hey, my sons are amputees," Kroeker said when he caught the mans eye. "Would you mind sharing with me about your leg?" No problem. Turns out that man, Allen Luke, is a volunteer for Nashville nonprofit Amputee Blade Runners, which outfits amputees with blade pros...

Downtown  Arrokoth opened at Tinney Contemporary on April 16, and continues at the 5th Avenue of the Arts space through May 29. Harding forms his sculptures from the wood of fallen trees, turning them into extraterrestrial-seeming artifacts on metal stands that look a lot like the landing gear on sci-fi Golden Age-era flying saucers. The show’s title references the most remote celestial object ever visited by a space probe. The exhibition’s natural materials and Harding’s smo...

Clarksville Now CLARKSVILLE, TN — April showers bring May flowers, and beginning May 1, the Customs House Museum & Cultural Center will be back in “full bloom” as it resumes its Saturday schedule. The museum will resume pre-COVID hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday 1-5 p.m. and will no longer close for one hour at mid-day during the week. Per the latest update from the City of Clarksville, cleaning and safety precautions will remain a priority; masks are strongly encouraged...

Erika Alexander and Nina Turner, Opinion contributors Published 1:25 pm UTC Apr. 15, 2021 On Wednesday the House Judiciary approved H.R. 40 — a reparations bill written more than 30 years ago. Its a long-overdue but history-making step. The bill, which will form a commission to study the possibility of federal reparations, heads to the House floor as states, universities and private organizations across the country push for reparative action.  Below is one of three columns USA TODAY O...

Color Farm Media, and iHeartMedia’s The Black Effect Podcast Network. Together, they bring individual perspectives to the conversation and are joined by special guests and experts ranging from Rev. William Barber, Robin Rue Simmons, and more. While they analyze reparations, the creative podcast investigates the underlying racist architecture of modern businesses, laws, policies, and institutions that have their roots in slavery. (Image credit Ben Arnon) Both hosts have passionate reasoni...