2019 Annual Report

The Big Payback Delivers
for Nashville State Foundation
Each year, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee hosts The
Big Payback, an annual day of giving benefitting hundreds of nonprofit
organizations across the region. The NSCC Foundation is an annual
participant in this celebration of philanthropy, and in 2019, we chose
to raise funds for our Transportation Assistance Program, a critically
important resource under the umbrella of our Beyond Financial Aid
initiative. Your response was truly inspiring!
The Transportation Assistance Program provides semester-long WeGo
Transit bus passes at no cost to students.
On average, our cost to operate the program is roughly $50
per student, per month. On Big Payback Day, we hoped to
raise $7,500—the cost to serve approximately 37 students
for one semester. However, during this 24-hour event, we
raised more than $13,000 to help remove the financial
barrier of transportation for NSCC students!
And thanks to your generosity, The Community Foundation awarded us
the HCA Most Improved Player award for medium-sized nonprofits, worth
an additional $3,500. We can’t overstate the importance of these funds in our students’ lives. Transportation assistance
helps them get to-and-from class each day, but it also ensures that students have a reliable way to travel to work, the
grocery store, doctor and therapist appointments, and so much more.
The Big Payback is an important reminder of the power of community. Together, we are capable of so much! We simply
could not do what we do for students each day without your help. Thank you for your generosity and support of our
mission and work!
Comcast Cares Day Builds Community at NSCC
The Nashville State Foundation hosted its first-ever Comcast
Cares Day project on April 18th. NSCC faculty and staff, with their
friends and families, joined volunteers from Comcast and the
community to contribute to an ongoing revitalization project at the
greenhouse space on the College’s White Bridge Road Campus.
NSCC’s greenhouse provides service learning opportunities for
students and delivers an important community resource through
the College’s partnership with The Nashville Food Project. TNFP
helps address food disparity by recovering and growing food
that can be shared with food-insecure individuals throughout the
Nashville area, and the Nashville State greenhouse serves as a
transplant garden for seedlings that are later moved into TNFP’s
outdoor garden plots.
Comcast Cares Day volunteers cleared weeds, planted perennials
and shrubs, laid down mulch, and helped with cleanup, beautifying
the greenhouse space inside and out. Projects like these build
community at Nashville State while allowing us to better serve the
community at large. We are grateful for the dedicated volunteers
who made this project possible and look forward to another
awesome project next year!
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