As we enter our 20th year, the NashvillePeace & JusticeCenter is experiencing new growth and resurgence in dedication, and outreach. The house is a lively hub of activity: club and group meetings, activist planning sessions, community suppers, organizer and mediator trainings and newly instituted quarterly open houses. Harkening back to the days of its use as a parsonage, and pointed toward the future, the Center frequently plays host to children and young people, our next generation of leaders. Come by and see!
Playing a meaningful role in the Nashville For All of Us coalition that quashed the English Only Initiative.
Increase of Center staff by half, and growing the Coordinator position to three-quarter time.
Training some three dozen new organizers in our highly regarded Leadership Institute.
Launching a social media campaign of outreach and education.
Sending two members of our Peace Coalition to Gazaas part of peacemaking teams.
Partnering with other local affiliates to rally through the Fall for health care reform, hosting the Mad As Hell Doctors on Tour in Nashville, and putting on a well attended (and informative) panel on health care reform.
Attending and sponsoring the Compass IV Conference on Green Jobs.
Launching two new Center affiliated group projects: the self explanatory Green Revolution, and Bridge Builders, a new peace & social justice club for children of all ages, along with their caregivers.
Putting on the Peace Festival in CentennialPark, with Cindy Sheehan as keynote.
Partnership with Belmont United Methodist Church’s Kairos class for our monthly film series, increasing attendance up to 100%.
Our holiday Peace on Earth postcard campaign, calling for reallocation of resources in Afghanistan for humanitarian aid.
We stand poised to co-host, with Scarritt-BennettCenter, an interfaith peace service next month, and we are currently putting together a speaker’s bureau and revamping our volunteer training program and manual. Under leadership of our newly elected executive committee (including members of Food Security Partners and Mid-East Peace Coalition) and the Center Coordinator, we will focus sharply on diversified development, educational programming and outreach in the New Year.
Upcoming events include:
Bingo for Change
a Celebrity Chili Cook-off
a Winter Leadership Institute
a Spring collective action
the Fifth Annual Mother’s Day Peace Parade.
Be a part! Your monthly tax-deductible donation of $15, $25, $50 (or more) OR a one time donationof $100 to $500 (or more!) supports this vital work in your community.
Until January 1, 2010, your level of giving will receive the below gift(s) as thanks!:
All donors of $25 or more will be listed in our giving circle on our website – this is a great way to honor or memorialize those in the community who work for peace & justice—let us know how you want that noted.
All $50 donors will receive a $5 Kroger card.
All $100 donors will receive an outgoing voice message recorded by WPLN Nashville Public Radio Announcer Eric Babcock.
All $150 donors will receive a gift card to a Kundalini yoga class conducted by Center Administrative Assistant and yogini Crystelle Brown.
All $250 donors will receive a supper of chicken and dumplings (homemade by me! – ask around, they are REALLY good) for themselves or a recipient of their choice.
All $500 donors will receive the full above package of gifts!
Again, your support and participation is essential to the growth and maintenance of the Center. Please make your donationtoday online.
