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A Nashville reporter remembers her meeting with Jesse Jackson
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Winter is typically quiet at Harmony Wildlife Rehabilitation, but this year’s late January ice storm brought the busy season early. During the storm, animals were relocated, volunteers came together and supporters brought supplies and chainsaws. “Sometimes it takes the worst storm to bring out the best in people,” said Anastasia Kudrez, executive director of Harmony Wildlife, a nonprofit based in West Nashville. As spring approaches, the typical “animal baby season” rush begins. Harmony Wildlife received more than 10,000 messages about injured and orphaned native wildlife last year, with many coming in during spring.
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.
“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.”
How the first Black Girl Scout leader in Nashville’s work continues through Camp Holloway
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.
Pike River feels like a procedural, a contemporary labor fable, and a fight for justice all at once.
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.
Lived experience cohort says they’ll no longer meet without compensation from Metro
During the ice storm in late January, a street newspaper vendor died while living outside. This is not an unpredictable tragedy unfortunately.