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Learn More About Human Trafficking and Homelessness
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Metro’s Office of Family Safety defines human trafficking the following way: “Human trafficking happens when one person uses or exploits another person for their own personal gain.”
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Q&A with Tasha Kennard
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When Tasha Kennard became the CEO of Thistle Farms in 2022, she was looking for a change of pace.
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Gadd: ‘Strong communities are built through participation’
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First-term Councilmember Brenda Gadd was elected in 2023 and represents District 24.
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Learn More About the Nonprofit Industrial Complex: Part 2
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We have to recognize that there is a vast difference amongst nonprofit organizations, and their funding mechanisms are extremely diverse.
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Q&A with Michael Durham
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Michael Durham is a national leader who has fought all his life for housing justice and solutions to homelessness.
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Learn More About the Nonprofit Industrial Complex: Part 1
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That day I learned that when the cameras are on, everyone is on the same page. But when the cameras are off, the true discontent and disconnectedness become visible …
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Q&A with Kennetha Patterson
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Kennetha Patterson is a local advocate and activist and a leader in the homelessness sector. Patterson has lived expertise and identifies herself on LinkedIn as THE Homeless CEO.
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Learn More About the Importance to Pay People with Lived Expertise
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“Engaging people with lived experience in any project or policy work must be based on time, trust, equal partnership roles … and fair compensation, of course.”
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Q&A with Erika Burnett
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Erika Burnett has a tremendous track record in community leadership in the private and public sector. Most recently she served as the VP of Community Development at the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee and the Executive Director of The Village.
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Learn More About The Village
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The Village was the brainchild of Ron Johnson and Dawn Stone. Johnson and Stone recognized the gap in capacity building that plagued minority-led nonprofits and made it hard for them to compete in the nonprofit field for grants and funding.