Girls Write Nashville

Mission Statement

Girls Write Nashville is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that empowers expression through songwriting, production, mentorship and creative community building for female-identifying teen artists in Nashville, TN. We are an educational program aligned with the standards of Creative Youth Development (CYD) and Culturally Responsive Education (CRE). We envision the future of music education based as modernized, inclusive, working to close the gender gap and informed by music as a participatory-based culture in order to reap the full community building value of the arts.

One Generation Away

Mission Statement

One Generation Away is a nonprofit organization whose mission is sharing hope, honor, and dignity through food. The organization’s vision is to wipe hunger off the face of America by teaching people to love one another through service.

Penuel Ridge Retreat Center

Mission Statement

We are a spiritual retreat center in Middle Tennessee, honoring our heritage and fostering values of contemplation, silence, hospitality, rest, social justice and communion with nature; nurturing the journey inward to strengthen the journey outward. Our Heritage Statement: To call people apart in a natural setting, to encounter in deep ways the love of God, neighbor, and self and to experience the integrity of all creation.

Rest Stop Ministries

Mission Statement

The mission of Rest Stop Ministries is to comprehensively restore survivors and stop the criminal oppression of human trafficking. The vision is to operate with sustainable excellence our premier long-term residential restoration program in the Nashville, TN area for adult female victims of domestic sex trafficking; a safe and beautiful place where they are healing holistically in a loving and supportive trauma-informed community. We opened our doors November 2015 and we are getting excellent outcomes; we have current capacity for 8 women. We plan to grow and expand our service reach as funding permits. The primary goal of our program is to inspire these women to re-imagine their lives and to empower and equip them to live healthy, financially independent, purpose-filled lives. Our strategic vision includes a full-scale Social Enterprise, Good Hope Farms, to provide safe and accessible job training and initial employment opportunity, as well as an Advocacy/Education arm at www.endsextrafficking.com, our newly purchased domain for education and awareness.