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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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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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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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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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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.
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Learn More About Shelter Court
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Shelter Court Is Helping with Recidivism for People Living on the Streets. Is it Helping Them Get Into Housing?
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Learn More About Unseen Nashville
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Unseen Nashville is a street tour about homelessness, launched by The Contributor in 2025.
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Learn More About Nashville’s Fight to Keep People Housed
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The city of Nashville is fighting to keep local homelessness programs intact and Nashvillians housed.
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Learn More About Federal Funding Changes to Homelessness
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If Metro does not step in, more than 100 Nashvillians are at risk of losing their permanent supportive housing by May 2026.
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Learn More About Street Outreach Options
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For years, I’ve been advocating for an interdisciplinary street outreach approach in Nashville.