Skip to content
Give Today
  • Give Today
  • logo
  • logo
  • OUR PAPER
    • News
    • Vendor Spotlights
    • Vendor Writing
    • Features
    • Hoboscopes
    • Advertise
  • OUR VENDORS
    • Become A Vendor
    • Vendor Stories
    • Find A Vendor
    • Buy A Subscription
    • Buy A Newspaper
  • OUR PROGRAMS
    • Programs
    • How It Works
  • GET INVOLVED
    • Latest Events
    • Work With Us
    • Join Our Board
    • Volunteer With Us
    • Intern With Us
    • Unseen Nashville Tours
  • MEET OUR TEAM
    • Meet Our Team
    • Contact Us
  • WTTIN
  • DONATE
  • Give Today

The Contributor - The Contributor helps our homeless neighbors establish their own micro-businesses and work their way into housing through selling an award-winning street paper.

The Contributor (https://thecontributor.org/category/features/page/4/)

  • OUR PAPER
    • News
    • Vendor Spotlights
    • Vendor Writing
    • Features
    • Hoboscopes
    • Advertise
  • OUR VENDORS
    • Become A Vendor
    • Vendor Stories
    • Find A Vendor
    • Buy A Subscription
    • Buy A Newspaper
  • OUR PROGRAMS
    • Programs
    • How It Works
  • GET INVOLVED
    • Latest Events
    • Work With Us
    • Join Our Board
    • Volunteer With Us
    • Intern With Us
    • Unseen Nashville Tours
  • MEET OUR TEAM
    • Meet Our Team
    • Contact Us
  • WTTIN
  • DONATE
Subscribe

Features

  • Related Topics:
  • Learn More About
  • A Few Questions
  • Moving Pictures
  • Cover Story
  • Features
Features

Secret Mall Apartment pictures the art of affordable housing

By Joe Nolan | December 24, 2025

Secret Mall Apartment is a documentary about an odd art project in an inhospitable space. It’s also about contemporary struggles with affordable real estate, and how those pressures affect creative communities.

Features
Learn More About

Learn More About Nashville’s Fight to Keep People Housed

By Judith Tackett | December 24, 2025

The city of Nashville is fighting to keep local homelessness programs intact and Nashvillians housed.

Features

The original Nashville Predator and its mysterious missing tooth

By Bill Carey | December 24, 2025

A half-century ago, a construction company unearthed the remains of a saber-toothed cat that had lived in present-day downtown Nashville 11,000 years ago.

Features

Q&A with Ashford Hughes Sr.

By Judith Tackett | December 24, 2025

Ashford Hughes Sr. is the Executive Officer of Student Success and Opportunity for Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS).

Features

Frankenstein is monstrous and masterful on Netflix

By Joe Nolan | December 10, 2025

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein delivers Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel as the sprawling gothic epic it was always meant to be.

Features

Learn More About Federal Funding Changes to Homelessness

By Judith Tackett | December 10, 2025

If Metro does not step in, more than 100 Nashvillians are at risk of losing their permanent supportive housing by May 2026.

Features

Unzine Nashville and The Contributor Partner to Create Wrapping Paper

By Amanda Haggard | December 3, 2025

The pages of wrapping paper inside the Dec. 3 issue of The Contributor were created as part of collaboration between vendors who sell The Contributor newspaper and Unzine Nashville.

Features

Troubled Teens and Traumatized Teachers in ‘Steve’

By Joe Nolan | November 12, 2025

Steve brings viewers a story about a community of outsiders struggling against the indifference of society and its cold and calculating systems.

Learn More About
Features

Learn More About Street Outreach Options

By Judith Tackett | November 12, 2025

For years, I’ve been advocating for an interdisciplinary street outreach approach in Nashville.

Features

Q&A with Dahron Anneliese Johnson

By Judith Tackett | November 12, 2025

Chaplain Dahron Annelies Johnson is a trans rights advocate who has become a mainstay of activism in the halls where the Tennessee General Assembly meets.

Load more stories
View this post on Instagram

A post shared by The Contributor (@thecontributor)

Mailing Address

The Contributor
P.O. Box 332023
Nashville, TN 37203

FOLLOW US
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • TikTok
OUR MISSION

Empowering our homeless neighbors to achieve income, dignity, housing and community.

OUR VISION

Bringing the community together to make homelessness a brief, rare occurrence.

Vendor Sales Office
154 Rep. John Lewis Way N.
Nashville, TN 37219
info@thecontributor.org
(615)829-6829

© Copyright 2026, The Contributor

Built with the Largo WordPress Theme from the Institute for Nonprofit News.

Back to top ↑