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The Community Shakers
Welcome to The Community Shakers Podcast. We shine the spotlight on organizations doing good in our community and uncover ways for you to get involved.
The Community Shakers connects you with purpose-driven organizations making a difference in your community and provides you the tools to get involved. Your time, skills, passion and support are what these organizations need to survive. We encourage your to support when, how, can where you can. Help us continue to spread the word about these community shaking organizations.
In this episode, Production Manager Anthony Galante shares how Custom Collaborative trains, mentors, and advocates for the success of low income immigrant women in the fashion industry. Custom Collaborative gives women the opportunity to achieve economic success regardless of race or socio-economic background.
Get involved with Custom Collaborative by visiting their website:https://www.customcollaborative.org
Follow Custom Collaborative on social media:
Instagram: @customcolab
Twitter: @customcolab
To learn more about this and the non profits, please visit our website at www.thecommunityshakers.com.
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The Community Shakers connects you with purpose-driven organizations making a difference in your community and provides you the tools to get involved. Your time, skills, passion and support are what these organizations need to survive. We encourage your to support when, how, can where you can. Help us continue to spread the word about these community shaking organizations.
Musical Mentors is a nonprofit that provides free, student-centered music instruction to students who would not otherwise have access to private lessons, addressing structural inequities in music education. In this episode Teddy Poll, Artistic and Educational Director, shares the importance of music and the power it has to bring people together.
Get involved with Musical Mentors by visiting their website: https://www.musical-mentors.org
Follow Musical Mentors on social media:
Instagram: @musicalmentorscollaborative
Twitter: @musicalmentors_
Stay Connected with The Community Shakers
To learn more about this and the non profits, please visit our website at www.thecommunityshakers.com.
Make sure to follow us on social media:
Instagram: @theshakerseries_
The Community Shakers connects you with purpose-driven organizations making a difference in your community and provides you the tools to get involved. Your time, skills, passion and support are what these organizations need to survive. We encourage your to support when, how, can where you can. Help us continue to spread the word about these community shaking organizations.
Behind the Book is a literacy non-profit working to develop engage readers and writers in underserved New York City Public Schools. In this episode Jo Umans, Founder and Executive Director, shares how Behind the Book is making kids feel confident about their abilities, giving them the opportunity to grow, and having fun while doing it.
Get involved with Behind the Book by visiting their website: https://www.behindthebook.org
Follow Behind the Book on social media:
Instagram: @behindthebook
Twitter: @Behind_the_Book
Facebook: @BehindtheBook
Stay Connected with The Community Shakers
To learn more about this and the non profits, please visit our website at www.thecommunityshakers.com.
Make sure to follow us on social media:
Instagram: @theshakerseries_
Community Shakers, welcome back! Our next guest, Miranda Telford, is the Communications Director for the West Nashville Dream Center. The West Nashville Dream Center serves as a consistent community resource for families dealing with crisis. Check out how the West Nashville Dream Center is making a difference by being a good neighbor in a time of need.
Community Shakers, welcome back! Our next guest, Courtney Hale, is the Chief HopeDealer for KnowledgeBANK Nashville. Hale has designed an experience to improve the financial literacy of young people. Check out how KnowledgeBANK Nashville is making a difference for our Nashville youth and families
Community Shakers welcome back! Our next guest is Nicole Brandt Minyard, Founder and Executive Director of Daybreak Arts (formally Poverty and the Arts). Located off of Dickerson Pike in Nashville, TN, Daybreak Arts provides supplies, resources, and training for people impacted by homelessness. Daybreak Art's goal is to leverage the creative talent of those experiencing homelessness and give them the opportunity to make income for themselves.
Community Shakers, welcome back! This week, I sat down with Leah Sherry, Executive Director of Turnip Green Creative Reuse. Located off of Houston Street in Nashville, TN, this non profit looks to keep reusable materials out of landfills and connect materials with people who need them.