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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.

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Learn More About Child Homelessness

By Judith Tackett | July 22, 2026

How Childhood Homelessness Impacts a Person and Community for Life

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Learn More About The Federal Homelessness Approach

By Judith Tackett | June 10, 2026

Being poor in America is expensive.

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Learn More About My Take on Metro’s Homelessness Budget

By Judith Tackett | June 10, 2026

The math is simple: Metro has invested millions of dollars into homelessness since 2022 at unprecedented levels for Nashville. Yet overall homelessness during that time has increased by 14 percent.

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Learn More About Homelessness and Mental Health

By Judith Tackett | May 27, 2026

“When you are in survival mode 24/7 for months or years, the likelihood of developing mental health issues is extremely high — if not to say likely.”

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Learn More About Why We Need Social Housing

By Judith Tackett | May 13, 2026

“The biggest affordability issue in this country is a lack of a living minimum wage combined with a lack of access to affordable housing.”

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Learn More About How The Contributor Helps End Homelessness

By Judith Tackett | April 29, 2026

The Contributor is a nonprofit offering wraparound services and vendor-focused programming, all designed to bring our community together to make homelessness a brief, rare occurrence.

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Learn More About Human Trafficking and Homelessness

By Judith Tackett | April 8, 2026

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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Learn More About the Nonprofit Industrial Complex: Part 2

By Judith Tackett | April 1, 2026

We have to recognize that there is a vast difference amongst nonprofit organizations, and their funding mechanisms are extremely diverse.

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Learn More About the Nonprofit Industrial Complex: Part 1

By Judith Tackett | March 18, 2026

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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Learn More About the Importance to Pay People with Lived Expertise

By Judith Tackett | March 4, 2026

“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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Empowering our homeless neighbors to achieve income, dignity, housing and community through storytelling, creative expression, and economic opportunity.

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

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