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 hosted. It begins on Wednesday, May 5, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. and continues until 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 6, 2021.
The Big Payback, hosted by The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, is a community-wide giving day which shines a spotlight on local giving and motivates Middle Tennessee to “give back” to nonprofits in a big way. The Community Foundation’s mission is to “to promote and facilitate giving in the 40 counties of Middle Tennessee and beyond.”
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) â 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 to engage and encourage others to support the work that they do â the other 364 days of the year,â according to the CFMT website. âAnd this year, more than ever, nonprofits still need our support.â
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In case your email inbox hasn t overwhelmed you with reminders, here s another: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee s 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. CFMT s sponsors kick in nearly a quarter-million dollars in incentives and prizes, further ratcheting up the fundraising efforts.
There s a leaderboard and everything!
With 1,017 organizations from 33 counties participating, surely you can find something to toss a little goodwill toward, right?
COLUMBIA, Tenn. Greg Kroeker couldn t stop staring at the man with the unusual prosthetic leg in front of him at Lowe s.
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 man s 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 prosthetics used for more athletic movements.
And Luke was happy to share with Kroeker, who, with his wife, Suzanne, had adopted two boys from different families in China. Both boys arrived with medical conditions that required leg amputations once they arrived in the States.
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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 showâs title references the most remote celestial object ever visited by a space probe. The exhibitionâs natural materials and Hardingâs smooth-rounded forms emanate a still calm, but the titular implications of trans-Neptunian isolation charge this display with existential anxieties and cosmic horror. Tinney will host a socially distanced reception on Saturday from 11 a.m. until 7 p.m. Visitors are asked to schedule a time slot for their visit via tinney.com.