2023 Community Partners

AncoraTN--formerly known as End Slavery Tennessee-- works tirelessly to nurture survivor healing and strategically combat human trafficking in Middle Tennessee. The organization seeks to break cycles of exploitation and support survivors of human trafficking as they heal from their traumas—offering long-term, comprehensive aftercare services. Through educating communities and professionals, advocating for legal changes, and implementing prevention programming, AncoraTN works to stop human trafficking before it ever begins.

We welcome Ancora as our April community partner and congratulate them on their new brand identity!   Please consider a donation in support of their work at the button below.  AWIN members will hear more about their work at the April all-member meeting.

We are proud to welcome Thistle Farms as our community partner for the month of March.

Thistle Farms is a nonprofit social enterprise dedicated to helping women survivors recover and heal from prostitution, trafficking, and addiction. TF accomplishes this by providing a safe place to live, a meaningful job, and a lifelong sisterhood of support.

Learn more about Thistle Farms and please consider a donation at the button below. You can donate during the March AWIN program. 

AWIN welcomes The Sexual Assault Center as our community partner for the month of February.

The Sexual Assault Center was founded in 1978 to provide healing for children, adults, and families affected by sexual assault and to end sexual violence through counseling, education, and advocacy. SAC's vision is to work toward a world void of sexual violence.

Inclusivity is one of SAC's most important principles. SAC maintains a safe space that is representative of and welcomes people from ALL backgrounds.

Learn more about The Sexual Assault Center and their critically important work, and support their work with a donation at the button below.

Monroe Harding's mission is changing young people’s lives. Since MH began in 1893 as an orphanage for displaced youth, Monroe Harding evolved and continually adapted to meet the needs of children and young adults who are in or transitioning out of state custody. MH ensures that foster care youth and other vulnerable young people build a solid foundation of strengths, positioning them for success in adulthood. The organization provides children, young adults, and families with resources in the areas of Homes, Healing, and Opportunities through Engagement. 

The Next Door is one-of-a-kind in its approach to walking alongside women struggling with addiction. it is one of the only organizations in the southeast providing a full continuum of affordable, gender-specific treatment for women in a faith-based environment and that offers priority in admissions to pregnant women. The Next Door uses a treatment model that integrates 12-step programming, faith, and evidence-based practices to address the needs of the whole woman – mind, body, and spirit.

Renewal House serves more than 500 women and children a year through all of its programs combined. The organization helps women gain the skills to remain sober, give their children nurturing care, improve their physical and mental health, and secure employment. Long-term impact is profound, as women are able to provide stable housing and other basic family needs, avoid legal entanglements and become contributing community members. For the children, early intervention and prevention services lessen their probability of developing a substance use disorder and other adolescent behavioral health problems. Renewal House saves significant taxpayer dollars, decreasing state welfare, foster care, healthcare and criminal justice costs. 

For 124 years, the YWCA has helped women, girls, and families in Nashville and Middle Tennessee build safer, more self-sufficient lives. The YW does this by operating the largest domestic violence shelter in the region so adults and children fleeing abuse can heal. The organization empowers youth to break down negative gender stereotypes through Girls Inc. and AMEND Together. The YW also  provides the tools needed to become successful in work and life through Dress for Success and our Family Learning Center. Programs are FREE to the thousands of people served each year and are offered to everyone.

The New Beginnings Center is a lifestyle and fitness center where health and wellbeing improvements are available to women of all income levels.  NBC offers  a system of lifestyle coaching that includes nutrition, exercise and the actual process of change itself.  The Center provides clients a health and wellness program like no other that produces REAL and lasting results, offered to ALL women, regardless of their ability to pay or their background.

Meet the team from New Beginnings at our August meetings!

And please consider a donation at the button below (it takes a second to load). 

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Middle Tennessee works to provide youth facing adversity with the guidance they need to help them succeed by matching them with an adult mentor. The organization creates professionally supported mentoring programs to develop positive relationships between a Big and Little that have a lasting impact on a young person’s life. 

You can be the difference. All youth have potential, they just need someone to defend it. One-to-one mentoring provides young people with the support and opportunities they need to help build successful futures. Littles dream big, and BBBS mentors empower them to reach their fullest potential.

There are a lot of Littles who want a positive role model in their life. More mentors are needed to ignite the power and promise of our youth. As a Big, you’ll change a young person’s life, but they’ll also change yours. Reach out to learn more about becoming a mentor today!  https://mentorakid.org/become-a-big/>>

And please consider a donation at the button below (it takes a second to load) to donate now!